Racial Discrimination In The Movie The Help

Set in the 1960's, a movie called The Help written by Tate Taylor and Kathryn Stockett, a recent graduate from college gets a job at a newspaper company and begins writing a story that will change her life. In this time of history, it was evident racial discrimination still played a role in everyone's life. Skeeter Phelan saw the split in roles between the white and black community in which she lived, so she began writing about it. This inspiring and educational movie gives today’s generation a glimpse of what it was like for some women living during this time. For Skeeter, who was played by Emma Stone, it wasn’t about making a profit off of a book, but to make a story about black lives and how it would change other’s opinions of the African American community.
In Mississippi, which holds many white and also African American people are still facing issues of racial discrimination and social injustice. This film mainly displays the lives of black women who take care of white households as well as the families that live in it. Skeeter makes it her job to write about these women and get …show more content…
The Help which was directed by Tate Taylor as well, shows the strength these women had to have to do their job everyday. These African American women not only had to clean the house, but also take care of the children and cook for anyone who said to do so. White women and men had no sympathy for their care takers, because in their eyes, cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children, was what they were only good for. Until meeting Skeeter and telling the truth about their everyday lives, did they start to act out against their bosses. In time, did these women find the courage to start saying “no” to whoever told them to do a chore. The strength they bottled up came out and although some women lost their jobs, they were no longer being treated different from everyone