In the movie and the book The Help, the protagonists keep an important secret in order to bring an understanding into the community about segregation and racism.
There is always a reason why people should keep secrets, not only for their own benefit, but also for the benefit of others. Both the foundation of the movie and the book’s plot is about keeping the writing of an illegal book a secret. Skeeter, one of the protagonists, interviews a black help, Aibileen, in order to write a book called Help If word gets out that they are writing a book about this, they can and probably will be prosecuted and go to jail.
They kept this a secret for the protection of themselves, but they kept it from others so that they may have an indirect impact. …show more content…
The book’s foundation is racism and segregation where the plot builds upon the foundation. There are a lot of morals and lessons which the writer, Kathryn Stockett, emphasis throughout that book. The book gives a variety of characters where we can find ourselves reflected, even if it is just a little bit of our behaviors. Through this, we, as readers, realize that even in our subconscious that we are stereotyping other groups of people. The movie however, only has one plot that takes control of the whole movie. It creates a big importance on segregation and racism that occurs within the community. Although, it doesn’t actually show the anger that was and arguably still is in American racism. Today, viewers still are discriminating other races without even realizing it, and won’t be able to recognize themselves in the characters in the movie due to their depiction. It is more like watching a movie about history instead of learning from history and applying it to our lives and community. Others may disagree due to the fact that we can interpret history in our own thoughts. Still, if one was watching for entertainment, all they would get out of the movie is
There is always a reason why people should keep secrets, not only for their own benefit, but also for the benefit of others. Both the foundation of the movie and the book’s plot is about keeping the writing of an illegal book a secret. Skeeter, one of the protagonists, interviews a black help, Aibileen, in order to write a book called Help If word gets out that they are writing a book about this, they can and probably will be prosecuted and go to jail.
They kept this a secret for the protection of themselves, but they kept it from others so that they may have an indirect impact. …show more content…
The book’s foundation is racism and segregation where the plot builds upon the foundation. There are a lot of morals and lessons which the writer, Kathryn Stockett, emphasis throughout that book. The book gives a variety of characters where we can find ourselves reflected, even if it is just a little bit of our behaviors. Through this, we, as readers, realize that even in our subconscious that we are stereotyping other groups of people. The movie however, only has one plot that takes control of the whole movie. It creates a big importance on segregation and racism that occurs within the community. Although, it doesn’t actually show the anger that was and arguably still is in American racism. Today, viewers still are discriminating other races without even realizing it, and won’t be able to recognize themselves in the characters in the movie due to their depiction. It is more like watching a movie about history instead of learning from history and applying it to our lives and community. Others may disagree due to the fact that we can interpret history in our own thoughts. Still, if one was watching for entertainment, all they would get out of the movie is