In both Tate Taylor’s The Help and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird readers see a situation where African-American citizens are being discriminated against, and because of the time and place, it is widely accepted. Readers also see many overlapping ideas, similarities in characters, and very similar themes. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Mayella accuses Tom Robinson, a kind black man, of raping her. The Bridge Club excludes Celia from the club because of Hilly’s dispute with her. Celia and Mayella are excluded from their city’s activities, because of the thought that they are white trash. Celia Foote and Mayella Ewell, characters from The Help and To Kill a Mockingbird, are willing to build relationships with a black, and are both lonely, although
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Mayella tries to make a romantic relationship with Tom Robinson, and Celia tried to make a friendship with Minny Jackson, her maid. According to Tom Robinson’s testimony, “ ‘…she hugged me. She hugged me round the waist… She reached up an’ kissed me ‘side of th’ face’ ” (Lee 259-260). Tom is talking about Mayella, and she did all this because she was lonely and was searching for someone to love because she lacked love in her life. Similar to Celia having a husband, but besides that she has no friends, which causes her to bond with her maid, Minny, and forget about all the stereotypes. Also, she desperately needs help around the house, especially cooking, which also brings her to overlook stereotypes. When Celia takes a look at Minny’s injury given to her by her husband, Celia says to Minny, “ ‘Let me take a look… I know you didn’t fall in no tub Minny’ ” (The Help). This shows that Celia cares for Minny on a different level than all of the other adult white women do for other Negroes in her area. People may think Celia and Mayella are trash, but they really are the most considerate and …show more content…
Celia thinks the more she instigates conversation, the more she would be accepted. On the other hand, Mayella accepts her loneliness and does not try to eradicate it. It is funny because when Atticus asks Mayella if she has any friends, Mayella does not know what a friend is. However, Celia knows what a friend is, and also knows that she does not have any, and so she tries too hard to become friends with the Jackson crew. She copes with her loneliness by trying to get rid of it, but Mayella just doesn’t know that the loneliness she possesses is unnatural even though her body is telling her it is because of the way she longs to be close to Tom despite her father’s hatred of African-Americans. She and Mayella are both “white trash”, but Celia will not accept that, but Mayella is not one to go against the status
Mayella tries to make a romantic relationship with Tom Robinson, and Celia tried to make a friendship with Minny Jackson, her maid. According to Tom Robinson’s testimony, “ ‘…she hugged me. She hugged me round the waist… She reached up an’ kissed me ‘side of th’ face’ ” (Lee 259-260). Tom is talking about Mayella, and she did all this because she was lonely and was searching for someone to love because she lacked love in her life. Similar to Celia having a husband, but besides that she has no friends, which causes her to bond with her maid, Minny, and forget about all the stereotypes. Also, she desperately needs help around the house, especially cooking, which also brings her to overlook stereotypes. When Celia takes a look at Minny’s injury given to her by her husband, Celia says to Minny, “ ‘Let me take a look… I know you didn’t fall in no tub Minny’ ” (The Help). This shows that Celia cares for Minny on a different level than all of the other adult white women do for other Negroes in her area. People may think Celia and Mayella are trash, but they really are the most considerate and …show more content…
Celia thinks the more she instigates conversation, the more she would be accepted. On the other hand, Mayella accepts her loneliness and does not try to eradicate it. It is funny because when Atticus asks Mayella if she has any friends, Mayella does not know what a friend is. However, Celia knows what a friend is, and also knows that she does not have any, and so she tries too hard to become friends with the Jackson crew. She copes with her loneliness by trying to get rid of it, but Mayella just doesn’t know that the loneliness she possesses is unnatural even though her body is telling her it is because of the way she longs to be close to Tom despite her father’s hatred of African-Americans. She and Mayella are both “white trash”, but Celia will not accept that, but Mayella is not one to go against the status