February 10, 2009, Kathryn Stockett wrote a novel based on the lifestyles of African Americans(maids) in Mississippi in the 1950s and the 1960s. In the novel, Stockett not only gives her point of view in the novel but also she shows the maids or “The Helps’” point of view. In the book, an aspiring writer, Skeeter Phelan, interviews the maids on how they feel about their job and how they are treated. At first, the only maid to talk to Skeeter is Aibileen Clark, after seeing what the book is going to accomplish, other maids decide to help Skeeter, too. Most critics believe that Stockett wrote this as a biographical account of her brother and sister-in-law’s maid, Ablene Cooper. However, the book should be seen as a way to comprehend the racism
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Two of the main characters, Aibileen Clark and Mae Mobley have a stronger relationship than Mae Mobley and her mother Elizabeth Leefolt. Which is ironic because in today 's society most mothers are offended if another man or woman tells them how to raise their child, but during the 1950 and 1960s white women did not have much to do with their children. They wanted someone else to raise their child. Another example of this kind of parent-child relationship is Constantine and Skeeter and Charlotte and Skeeter. While Skeeter is asking Aibileen questions about cleaning, Skeeter asks Aibileen if she knew Constantine and if she knew what happened to her (Stockett 94). When Skeeter returns home from college, the first person she wants to see is Constantine, instead of her mother. Constantine has been on her mind ever since she has returned. It is killing her on the inside that Constantine would leave her without telling her. When Skeeter was younger, she gained a much tighter relationship with Constantine because she was the one who shaped her to become the young woman she is, and inspired her to write the book she is writing. Constantine is the one who taught her everything she knows. Since the maids take up all the time with the children, the mothers never gain a relationship with their children like the maids
Two of the main characters, Aibileen Clark and Mae Mobley have a stronger relationship than Mae Mobley and her mother Elizabeth Leefolt. Which is ironic because in today 's society most mothers are offended if another man or woman tells them how to raise their child, but during the 1950 and 1960s white women did not have much to do with their children. They wanted someone else to raise their child. Another example of this kind of parent-child relationship is Constantine and Skeeter and Charlotte and Skeeter. While Skeeter is asking Aibileen questions about cleaning, Skeeter asks Aibileen if she knew Constantine and if she knew what happened to her (Stockett 94). When Skeeter returns home from college, the first person she wants to see is Constantine, instead of her mother. Constantine has been on her mind ever since she has returned. It is killing her on the inside that Constantine would leave her without telling her. When Skeeter was younger, she gained a much tighter relationship with Constantine because she was the one who shaped her to become the young woman she is, and inspired her to write the book she is writing. Constantine is the one who taught her everything she knows. Since the maids take up all the time with the children, the mothers never gain a relationship with their children like the maids