Literature
Life is full of differences but there are also things that remain the same in each and every person you encounter. Characteristics and qualities of a person are one of the most significant materials that make the pieces of the puzzle of we call life. Literature teaches us a multitude of things about characteristics, ones you want to obtain and others you want to stay away from. The writer’s job is to exhibit these characteristics within a book, article, poem, etc. and remind the reader of their importance as Faulkner exemplifies in his Nobel Prize for Literature speech given in 1950. The books, Life of Pi by Yann Martel and The Help by Kathryn Stockett, showcase one of the paramount qualities a human needs to obtain: willingness to sacrifice when safety …show more content…
This book based in the 1960s reveals what the blacks lives were like in the South during this racial time period. People had very hidebound opinions and society was not open to the blacks having a voice or wanting change. Minny and Aibileen, two of the main characters, demonstrated that they were willing to sacrifice in order to have a voice and risk their safety in the Jackson, Mississippi for talking about the women they worked for. (The Help, Kathryn Stockett) Aibileen thinks Skeeter is crazy when she is asked to share her story about being a maid. She also tells her that it’s very dangerous to be talking about those things because people’s house had been burned down for acting out against the whites. (The Help, p120) Aibileen then decides that after how Miss Hilly fired Minny and had treated her in the first place that she needed to talk about their life no matter the consequences because it needed to be out in the open. (The Help, p142) More and more women committed themselves to sharing their story and forego any trouble they were going to get into to make a difference due to the fact that things needed to change. (The Help,
Life is full of differences but there are also things that remain the same in each and every person you encounter. Characteristics and qualities of a person are one of the most significant materials that make the pieces of the puzzle of we call life. Literature teaches us a multitude of things about characteristics, ones you want to obtain and others you want to stay away from. The writer’s job is to exhibit these characteristics within a book, article, poem, etc. and remind the reader of their importance as Faulkner exemplifies in his Nobel Prize for Literature speech given in 1950. The books, Life of Pi by Yann Martel and The Help by Kathryn Stockett, showcase one of the paramount qualities a human needs to obtain: willingness to sacrifice when safety …show more content…
This book based in the 1960s reveals what the blacks lives were like in the South during this racial time period. People had very hidebound opinions and society was not open to the blacks having a voice or wanting change. Minny and Aibileen, two of the main characters, demonstrated that they were willing to sacrifice in order to have a voice and risk their safety in the Jackson, Mississippi for talking about the women they worked for. (The Help, Kathryn Stockett) Aibileen thinks Skeeter is crazy when she is asked to share her story about being a maid. She also tells her that it’s very dangerous to be talking about those things because people’s house had been burned down for acting out against the whites. (The Help, p120) Aibileen then decides that after how Miss Hilly fired Minny and had treated her in the first place that she needed to talk about their life no matter the consequences because it needed to be out in the open. (The Help, p142) More and more women committed themselves to sharing their story and forego any trouble they were going to get into to make a difference due to the fact that things needed to change. (The Help,