Morality In Sula And The Help

Humans are born to die and within their lifetime will form some sort of story that’s either happy, sad, evil or virtuous. It makes sense that a human beings are taught to be moral but it's mostly not taught to be immoral as if it were second nature. “What Makes Us Moral” by Jeffrey Kluger, Sula by Toni Morrison, The Help; director Tate Taylor are main sources based on the elements of morality. All of the elements of literature; shunning, moral entrepreneur, reciprocal altruism, empathy, ought, insider/outsider and moral grammar from “What Makes Us Moral” are expressed within the given sources where evil presides mostly in Sula and The help is based on morality as to numb the dishonorable. To begin with, Sula is based on African American lives …show more content…
based on African American maids who suffer and work a lot in their daily lives and Skeeter who is a humble white person comes up to help them out to receive their right and to have other better jobs than maids. Skeeter in the novel is a special character that drives the maids and acts as their guide to hope and her personality as well because she has respect towards them and cares for them. Skeeter comes up to the maids to help them get their story out in public and by doing so, she will write journals keeping track of the maid’s daily life(Taylor). Although Skeeter is doing this to get her job, she feels empathy towards the maid's life since they struggle a lot in the white community and don't receive their rights, thus she writes about that to make a change for them. Minny is a maid who gets fired for using the bathroom of her boss and feels an act of revenge on her boss. Minny comes back to her boss for an “apology” and brings her a chocolate pie and once she gives it to her, tells her to eat her s**t pie of an act of revenge(Taylor). Minny had an ought or duty to do something about her situation since she got fired which was very unreasonable and felt hate about and thought it was good for her to act that way despite the consequences. Obviously racism is present in this movie since it's in the 60’s , which means that segregation was a huge problem. Just like Minny couldn’t use the bathroom from her boss's home, that's …show more content…
evil since both are based on characters that are a component of. In the Sula novel, it gives a more reason to why the characters are more evil than good. “There water was so peaceful now. There was nothing but the baking sun and something newly missing”(Morrison 61). Even the slave owner wasn’t fair with his freed slave because he didn't want to give him part of his virtuous and instead gave him a poor land being petty and prejudice and thus creating two worlds that are unconnected. “Which accounted for the fact that white people lived on the rich valley floor in that little river town in Ohio, and the blacks populated the hills above it, taking small consolation in the fact that every day they could literally look down on the white folks”(Marrison 5). The Help includes more of a positive effect where the characters are more positive or good than evil. Skeeter and Celia (who hires Minny after she gets fired form her other boss), are both good characters toward the maids. Skeeter communicates with the maids to get stories written down and acts if they were white and Celia acts very cheerful and respectful towards Minny where Celia want to sit next to Minny to eat together(Taylor). Aibileen is another important where she takes care the child of her boss and really looks out for her and cares a lot as well as if it were her real child. Aibileen took care of her boss’s child for about her whole life and mostly the one who