The Color Purple And The Help Comparison

When readers first start reading this book, this book made can help them realize the similarities there are to a novel named “The Help”, by Kathryn Stockett. In the novel, “The Color Purple”, other wives married women to men whom already had children. When another women would be married to a man who was once already married, the women would also have to take care of their children.
The book had several similarities in comparison to "The Help". These books are being compared to each other due to the face that "The Help" had black people being maids to white people. The main character who's name was Aibileen. She was a strong woman who would always listen to her boss and would do everything she was asked to do. In the novel "The Color Purple", Celie would always listen to Mr. Albert …show more content…
The colored women down here.' I tried to picture Constantine's face, Aibileen's. 'They raise a white child and then twenty years later the child becomes the employer. It's that irony, that we love them and they love us, yet...' I swallowed, my voice trembling. 'We don't even allow them to use the toilet in the house.'" Skeeter had noticed how black people were being treated in the white peoples houses. Black people couldn't even use the same bathroom white Poole would use. Days later she had a crazy idea of starting a book to talk about what it is like to a black maid in Mississippi.
"Shug act more manly than most men . . . he say. You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what." In "The Color Purple", Shug & Sophia were the kind of women who were not scared to confront anybody or let them lay a hand on them. The maids in the other book were scared to tell their side of their story on how it is like to be a maid in a white house. Although it was illegal to talk about that subject, Skeeter did it either way and convinced many maids to help her write her