Given Circumstances
1. Geographical location, including climate:
“The Help” is a drama film released in 2011 focusing on racism, discrimination, and inequality that the African American maids faced. The story of the movie focuses on the relationship between two black maids with a white woman journalist in Jackson, Mississippi. The warm, bright, and sunny days in the movie give the climate condition of Jackson, Mississippi.
2. Date; year, season, time of day:
The story focuses on how Jackson was during the period of the civil rights movement in 1962. The story line up of the movie focuses on the summer times of Jackson when it was sunny and warm, where the scenes in terms of visual detail can be considered the best for the story.
3. Economic environment (What is the ECONOMY like for the characters? How does it affect them?) …show more content…
14. List the major Crisis moment(s) 6-8 examples
Crisis moments from the movie are seen when a bus stops and a white man can be seen ordering a black passengers of the bus; the shooting of civil rights activist, Medger Evers; the arguments and ruptures associated with the shooting of John F. Kennedy; the demonstrations led by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr in Birmingham; insults by white women such as Mae Mobley on black maids; the firing of Aibleen; and the story of the death of Aibleen’s son.
15. List the Climax
The story comes at the climax when Aibleen s fired by her boss Mobley for standing up for the truth and her right, after which, she decides that this was her final job working as a maid in a white’s people houses.
16. List the Resolution// The Return to Stasis (The way the word is now)
Although the discrimination of African American maids in the white people’s places has not completely stopped, discrimination against them has greatly reduced compared to the 1960s.
1. Geographical location, including climate:
“The Help” is a drama film released in 2011 focusing on racism, discrimination, and inequality that the African American maids faced. The story of the movie focuses on the relationship between two black maids with a white woman journalist in Jackson, Mississippi. The warm, bright, and sunny days in the movie give the climate condition of Jackson, Mississippi.
2. Date; year, season, time of day:
The story focuses on how Jackson was during the period of the civil rights movement in 1962. The story line up of the movie focuses on the summer times of Jackson when it was sunny and warm, where the scenes in terms of visual detail can be considered the best for the story.
3. Economic environment (What is the ECONOMY like for the characters? How does it affect them?) …show more content…
14. List the major Crisis moment(s) 6-8 examples
Crisis moments from the movie are seen when a bus stops and a white man can be seen ordering a black passengers of the bus; the shooting of civil rights activist, Medger Evers; the arguments and ruptures associated with the shooting of John F. Kennedy; the demonstrations led by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr in Birmingham; insults by white women such as Mae Mobley on black maids; the firing of Aibleen; and the story of the death of Aibleen’s son.
15. List the Climax
The story comes at the climax when Aibleen s fired by her boss Mobley for standing up for the truth and her right, after which, she decides that this was her final job working as a maid in a white’s people houses.
16. List the Resolution// The Return to Stasis (The way the word is now)
Although the discrimination of African American maids in the white people’s places has not completely stopped, discrimination against them has greatly reduced compared to the 1960s.