Response To Harper Lee's The Help

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The file “The Help” connects to my theme, through the character of Abileen. Who accepts Skeeter’s offer of writing her part in a book about her experiences of being a black housemaid in Jackson, Mississippi. Like Atticus, she is aware of the troubles that will pass her way due to the current Jim Crow laws and Mississippi Laws. For instance the issue with her cousin. “They set my cousin Charnelle’s car on fire just cause she went down to the voting station.” This quote shows the serious injustice of the laws towards the black people in their state.

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