Kathryn Bigelow

The Help, a book based in the mid-1960s, is an astonishing read in which the author, Kathryn Stockett, brings to attention three very different lifestyles. In The Help, Aibileen Clark, a black maid who takes care of a white child named Mae Mobley Leefolt; Minny Jackson, a black maid who is insistent on speaking her mind; and Euginia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan, a white amateur journalist who reaches out to Aibileen and Minny to write what it is like to be a black maid. The book starts in the August of…

The Help by Kathryn Stockett takes place in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960’s. At this point in history, people of European ancestry are still held to a higher degree than African Americans. This leads to most white families hiring colored maids, referred to as the Help, who have less opportunities and privileges than the people who hire them. Over the course of the novel, the reader takes the story from the point of view of three women: Aibileen Clark, an older black maid who was born and…

The Help movie was set in the 1960’s during the civil rights movement. It is about a smart, southern girl named Skeeter, who everyone just so happen to adore. She just returned from college and decided to move back home in Mississippi. Skeeter then decides to be a writer. Not just any writer, but a writer that interviews black women who have spent their whole lives taking care of prominent southern families. She starts of with one lady named Aibileen, who opens up to her about the hard times and…

The Help makes a social statement by disclosing the stories of coloured maids in Jackson, Mississippi through a young white lady, Skeeter, who aspires to be a writer. It is a bold risk for a white lady cross the line of segregation by writing a book about the lives of black maid in the south. The novel struggles with the subjects of racism, segregation, white privilege, and other civil rights issues during the 1960s. It can be extremely difficult to stand up for what you believe in when everyone…

The Help (2011) Similarly, in 2011, The Help, was released, starring Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis. The film is about a young white woman, Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, and her relationship with two black maids, Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) and Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer), during the Civil Rights era in 1963 Jackson, Mississippi. Skeeter is a journalist decides to write a book from the point of view of the maids (referred to as "the help"), exposing the racism they are faced with…

The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, recapitulated the very different lives of black and white people in a small southern community in the 1960s. The story is significantly influenced by deaths during a period of inequality. In particular, the deaths of two men had major impacts on the black maids in this community and led them to join other maids, Aibileen and Minny, in contributing to Skeeter’s book. One of the deaths was that of Treelore who died well before the idea of the book, nevertheless, his…

Out of all the novels in the world, there is a book that everyone should get the option to read. The novel, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, is a book that a reader can not put down and wants to keep reading it to find out what happens next. In the story, the reader gets to read through the life of black maids and a white woman in their perspective to see how life in this time period was like. Miss Skeeter, the white woman’s perspective in the novel, has decided to write a collection of stories of…

I was lucky to grow up in a predominantly screen-free environment. Watching television was a deliberate activity, not a default. I was not reliant upon external stimuli and I rarely experienced boredom or a lack of creativity. Living in the country, I had the space and freedom to explore in nature and to live an active lifestyle. I had the privilege of experiencing childhood and play as it was “in the good ol’ days” before Western culture developed a screen dependency. The benefits of growing…

Kathryn Stockett’s ‘The Help’ is a novel that takes place in Mississippi and portrays the roles of women in 1960s and the limitations imposed on them by society. The women in the novel struggle to overcome what society has deemed as right and in turn they establish bonds with other women over shared problems. The white socialites have built social barriers between themselves and the African Americans domestic workers based upon their beliefs that blacks are lower class and diseased. In…

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory of overcoming it.”, said by Moliere relates to The Help solely because it is based on obstacles that are put upon the characters in the book. The Help by Kathryn Stockett, is mainly about three women who are trying to overcome the racism of their time by writing a book, all while telling their stories. Ms. Celia's treatment towards Minny compelled Minny to believe she should be treated as a person. Minny is the new maid to Celia Foote, and once Minny…