The Help Literary Analysis

Throughout the entire book a sense of separation is woven throughout. A main conflict and theme in The Help by Kathryn Stockett is racism. The white people manipulate the colored people, they are their maids, and they are merely seen as the help. The colored men and women are not viewed as humans with feelings and valid opinions just as objects and people that can cook and clean. So when people think that they are better than another person because of their race, their skin color, or their social class there will be contention and problems among people. The characters in this book have struggles amongst each other with racial hostilities and secret friendships. A main source of conflict in this book the problem that Mrs. Hilly Holbrook has …show more content…
This conversation between Mrs.Hilly and Mrs. Leefolt is what starts almost everything in this book. The conversation that takes place at the bridge game is what makes Miss Skeeter Phelan began reflecting on how wrongly the maids are treated. The circumstances between white families and their colored help are what makes her start contemplating about how there remains to be so much irony in the south and in families that have maids. Most of these maids raised these children into the women and men that they are and thenceforth they wind up working for them. After contemplating what had been happening in her whole life, Skeeter realizes that “we love them and they love us, yet.. we don’t even allow them to use the toilet in the house.” Miss Skeeter finally comprehends just how messed up the relationships between white families and their colored …show more content…
Instead of just having the white person’s version told the version of the colored help was told as well. They might have been outed and gotten caught by some of their bosses, but their voices for once were heard. Miss.Skeeter might have possibly printed the initiative in the newsletter for Mrs. Hilly. However, she also printed that people should drop of toilets in Mrs.Hilly Holbrook’s yard. Through these specific actions, Ms. Skeeter was able to spite Mrs. Hilly Holbrook and ruin her perfectly calculated initiative. By doing all of these things and standing up for Mrs.Hilly and composing this book Miss.Skeeter was standing up for what she understood to be true even though it went against how she was brought up in not only her own household but also in the society around her as well. Due to the time period that this all took place it was understood off as wrong to believe what she did, but she did not let that bring to a standstill, her plan to write the book or stand up for what she has confidences in to be true. Despite the backlash she underwent, Ms.Skeeter preceded and fought for what she thought of to be right and just and made long lasting relationships along the