Kathryn Stockett’s book The Help was published February 10, 2009. When Kathryn was growing up she lived in Jackson, Mississippi and after graduating college she moved to New York for 9 years and then moved to Atlanta, Georgia where she wrote The Help. While living in New York she worked in magazine publishing and marketing and when she lived in Atlanta she worked 5 hard years to write The Help. After she finished writing the book she got turned down by over 60 publishers (Author’s Purpose). Kathryn’s intent on writing this book was to social change just like in the book where Skeeter is a writer trying to change the South’s racial discrimination (Author’s Purpose). Kathryn is very familiar to this subject because she grew up in Jackson so she
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The main audience this book was written for were people who either have experienced hate because of their race or who are interested in hearing the stories and hearing about how colored people were treated. (Kathryn) When this book first came out in 2009 many people purchased a book, mainly women. This book was wrote to show people what it was like to work as a black maid for white people during the Civil Rights time era. “It is a conviction that is important for all of us to simply wonder what it’s like to walk in someone else’s shoes.” (Stockett) When reading this book the reader is encouraged to having an emotional response, because Kathryn writes about the way blacks were treated without sugar coating any of it. She tells everything for the way it was. Another way people are encouraged to have an emotional response is when she writes about the way the maids felt. They were never treated fair, had separate restrooms, could only use a certain amount of toilet paper, and had to walk many miles to and from work if the bus was full. Reading these things makes you open your eyes to see just how bad blacks were treated and they were never able to stick up for themselves when the white people would slander them. Over all I think this book was written to reach out to people of all races, sex, and ages to inform them how bad blacks were treated and how it wasn’t fair at
The main audience this book was written for were people who either have experienced hate because of their race or who are interested in hearing the stories and hearing about how colored people were treated. (Kathryn) When this book first came out in 2009 many people purchased a book, mainly women. This book was wrote to show people what it was like to work as a black maid for white people during the Civil Rights time era. “It is a conviction that is important for all of us to simply wonder what it’s like to walk in someone else’s shoes.” (Stockett) When reading this book the reader is encouraged to having an emotional response, because Kathryn writes about the way blacks were treated without sugar coating any of it. She tells everything for the way it was. Another way people are encouraged to have an emotional response is when she writes about the way the maids felt. They were never treated fair, had separate restrooms, could only use a certain amount of toilet paper, and had to walk many miles to and from work if the bus was full. Reading these things makes you open your eyes to see just how bad blacks were treated and they were never able to stick up for themselves when the white people would slander them. Over all I think this book was written to reach out to people of all races, sex, and ages to inform them how bad blacks were treated and how it wasn’t fair at