Martin Luther King Jr., an African American civil rights activist, gave a speech saying “I have a dream, that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character”. Discrimination in the late 1900’s to the minorities in America is revealed through the literature of the book To Kill a Mockingbird and the movie The Help. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, showed a small town girl named Scout in town, while on the outside are nice hard working people, but on the inside are divided by the discrimination towards the blacks. In the movie The Help black maids are working for the “superior” white race where they deal with constant segregation and discrimination.
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In The Help Elizabeth holds a group meeting where many women join together, during this meeting Hilly introduces an idea to the group that blacks and whites should have separate bathrooms. Skeeter with frustration replies “Maybe we should just build one for you outside.” (Taylor). In this scene slowly shows the distaste of the discrimination towards the blacks in the town. Even though she is white, she feels sympathy to the mistreated blacks (specifically the maids). She openly speaks against the new idea, even though it causes tensions in the group of women creating new problems. The mistreatment of the black maids that take care of the white families is hard for Skeeter because she was raised by a black maid, and thought of her as part of the family, so when other blacks get dehumanized, she feels like she had a duty to help them out. Another scene in The Help was Skeeter trying to get a job at a writing company. She gives the man her resumé who is very impressed that as a women, she has an education and all the work she has done. He makes a comment “Girl don’t you have fun?” she replies “Is that important?” (Taylor). In this part, it shows the social class differences between women and men. For women to finish college, have a job, and no husband was rare. women in at the time was common to drop out of college, get …show more content…
Scout and Skeeter had to deal with many of the same problems but in different situations, while they both had to deal with the social classes the women had a certain code that must be followed to be successful. While on the other had they had to deal with other problems where as Skeeter had to deal with her African American friends being dehumanized by the whites in her town, while that happened to Scout it did not affect her life with as much as an impact. Scout did have to deal with racial discrimination with others due to the family relations with a slave. the two stories were similar in many ways, some much so that Scout and skeeter could have been the same person just in different
In The Help Elizabeth holds a group meeting where many women join together, during this meeting Hilly introduces an idea to the group that blacks and whites should have separate bathrooms. Skeeter with frustration replies “Maybe we should just build one for you outside.” (Taylor). In this scene slowly shows the distaste of the discrimination towards the blacks in the town. Even though she is white, she feels sympathy to the mistreated blacks (specifically the maids). She openly speaks against the new idea, even though it causes tensions in the group of women creating new problems. The mistreatment of the black maids that take care of the white families is hard for Skeeter because she was raised by a black maid, and thought of her as part of the family, so when other blacks get dehumanized, she feels like she had a duty to help them out. Another scene in The Help was Skeeter trying to get a job at a writing company. She gives the man her resumé who is very impressed that as a women, she has an education and all the work she has done. He makes a comment “Girl don’t you have fun?” she replies “Is that important?” (Taylor). In this part, it shows the social class differences between women and men. For women to finish college, have a job, and no husband was rare. women in at the time was common to drop out of college, get …show more content…
Scout and Skeeter had to deal with many of the same problems but in different situations, while they both had to deal with the social classes the women had a certain code that must be followed to be successful. While on the other had they had to deal with other problems where as Skeeter had to deal with her African American friends being dehumanized by the whites in her town, while that happened to Scout it did not affect her life with as much as an impact. Scout did have to deal with racial discrimination with others due to the family relations with a slave. the two stories were similar in many ways, some much so that Scout and skeeter could have been the same person just in different