In the novel “ The Help” the topic of race and domestic violence affects all of the characters.But the character that is affected the most by this is Minny .Throughout the novel, Minny goes from be a strong woman with five children and a husband to having no home no husband and only her children .Minny is a victim of domestic violence tries to hide the fact that her husband is abusive. Several times when she went to work as a maid she tried to cover up the cuts and bruises from being hit . Soon enough Minny realized that she was protecting her husband and not herself and children. On the night when Minny’s husband threatened to lock her in the bathroom and burn down the house she left her house with her children and went to a bus stop in
