Change
Hugh Prather once said, “Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.” In life, changes occur often, sometimes even without a warning. And these changes people experience often alter them as a person. Either altering their behavior, or their outlook on life. These ideas are clearly represented in a novel called The Help by Kathryn Stockett. In this novel, set back in time when segregation was still normal and accepted, multiple events happen to the main characters that cause a change to occur in them. In the novel , The Help, Stockett demonstrates through her characters that a change of events will always alter a person.
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When a person gets a eureka moment, they usually do something about it. In Minny’s case, this is precisely what happens. Minny grew up with an alcoholic father, and took care of him in his worst of times. And now Minny has a abusive and alcoholic husband. But she always forgives him, even if he does something bad. At one point in the novel she reflects over her past week thinking, “I’m standing in Miss Celia’s kitchen thinking about last night, what with Kindra and her mouth, Benny and his asthma, my husband Leroy coming home drunk two times last week. He knows that’s the one thing I can’t stand after nursing my drunk daddy for ten years, me and Mama working ourselves to death so he had a full bottle. I guess I ought to be more upset about all this, but last night, as an I’m sorry, Leroy came home with a sack of early okra. He knows it’s my favorite thing to eat" (81). Minny forgives Leroy, even though he was inconsiderate towards her. This is because she has not yet experienced that eureka moment. She hasn't experienced that change within her yet to make her stand up for herself. But she does and it finally sets her free. It is written in Aibileen's point of view, and it goes like this, “She let out a long breath into the phone. 'No,' she say. 'I can’t. I done took this long enough.' And I start to hear Minny Jackson come back into her own self again. Her voice is shaking, I know she scared, but she say, 'God help him, but Leroy don’t know what Minny Jackson about to become' " (593). This shows how Minny finally had that eureka moment, and it changed her to realize what was wrong with the situation she was living in. She acts upon what she has learned, and gets herself and her kids away from her monster of a husband. If she would have never experienced that change inside her, she could have been stuck with her horrible
Hugh Prather once said, “Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.” In life, changes occur often, sometimes even without a warning. And these changes people experience often alter them as a person. Either altering their behavior, or their outlook on life. These ideas are clearly represented in a novel called The Help by Kathryn Stockett. In this novel, set back in time when segregation was still normal and accepted, multiple events happen to the main characters that cause a change to occur in them. In the novel , The Help, Stockett demonstrates through her characters that a change of events will always alter a person.
Initially, Stockett reveals through her character …show more content…
When a person gets a eureka moment, they usually do something about it. In Minny’s case, this is precisely what happens. Minny grew up with an alcoholic father, and took care of him in his worst of times. And now Minny has a abusive and alcoholic husband. But she always forgives him, even if he does something bad. At one point in the novel she reflects over her past week thinking, “I’m standing in Miss Celia’s kitchen thinking about last night, what with Kindra and her mouth, Benny and his asthma, my husband Leroy coming home drunk two times last week. He knows that’s the one thing I can’t stand after nursing my drunk daddy for ten years, me and Mama working ourselves to death so he had a full bottle. I guess I ought to be more upset about all this, but last night, as an I’m sorry, Leroy came home with a sack of early okra. He knows it’s my favorite thing to eat" (81). Minny forgives Leroy, even though he was inconsiderate towards her. This is because she has not yet experienced that eureka moment. She hasn't experienced that change within her yet to make her stand up for herself. But she does and it finally sets her free. It is written in Aibileen's point of view, and it goes like this, “She let out a long breath into the phone. 'No,' she say. 'I can’t. I done took this long enough.' And I start to hear Minny Jackson come back into her own self again. Her voice is shaking, I know she scared, but she say, 'God help him, but Leroy don’t know what Minny Jackson about to become' " (593). This shows how Minny finally had that eureka moment, and it changed her to realize what was wrong with the situation she was living in. She acts upon what she has learned, and gets herself and her kids away from her monster of a husband. If she would have never experienced that change inside her, she could have been stuck with her horrible