The Help Aibileen Clark

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In my generation, individuals are filled with secrets that can haunt us, define us and make us question our loyalty to one another. Does sending them secrets free make you feel free? Does the truth set you free? After watching the movie, The Help by Tate Taylor and seeing what Aibileen Clark went through with Minny Jackson, Eugenia “ Skeeter” Phelan, Hilly Holbrook and few more I have analyzed that she fights for what she believes in. In the movie, The Help, Aibileen is the character that has the most development throughout the movie because at the beginning she was bitter and felt there was nothing else out there for her, but that all changed when she helped spill out the truth in The Help. From the beginning scene to the ending scene her life is changing slowly, but surely. She took the risk of losing everything she had to make a difference for “The Help.” She risked her life for informing everyone about the truth of how they were treated. During the beginning of the movie, Aibileen felt there was nothing else out there for here for her because she …show more content…
Even though, Aibileen lost her job she found her new calling in life. Aibileen’s son always said there was going to be a writer in the family one day. He was right, Aibileen found her new path in life being a writer. Aibileen takes the last page out of the typewriter and places it behind the two hundred other typed out pages. She looks up at the framed picture of Treelore and rises from the table in pride… Skeeter sets the book down on her desk and picks up the phone. The book cover reads: “All My Babies” by Aibileen Clark, (Taylor). This proves she is developing because she always thought she had to be a maid but is now a writer. Aibileen has developed in her character and found that she needs to start looking at the positives in life instead of dwelling on the negatives of her

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