Despite the fact that racial inequality is also a major problem for African Americans, Aibileen, another main character in the book The Help, struggles with segregation that the white people bring upon the African Americans. Aibileen has to deal with the death of her son Treelore and when she was writing, she writes about how the white men treated his body like a sack of potatoes; like he wasn’t even a human being. Stockett says, “On our fifth session, Aibileen reads to me about the day Treelore died. She reads about how his broken body was thrown on the back of a pickup by the white foreman. ‘And then they dropped him off at the colored hospital. That’s what the nurse told me, who was standing outside. They rolled him off the truck bed and
