Kathryn Erbe

“What About Bob?” is a comedy starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss. Murray’s character, Bob Wiley, suffers from a multitude of disorders and phobias. He is very neurotic and easily forms extreme attachments to people and things he gets comfortable with. Dreyfuss plays Dr. Leo Marvin a successful psychiatrist with a huge ego, who thinks he has a grip on everything. He thinks he knows how to handle anyone or any situation with ease and clarity. The movie revolves around Leo’s new book “Baby Steps”, a novel of psychiatric therapy, and his soon to be appearance on Good Morning America (GMA) for the best-selling book. The interview is to take place during his family vacation at Lake Winnipesaukee. His relationship with his family is somewhat strained, which we see while he is on vacation with his family. What leads Bob in Dr. Marvin path is that another psychologist who is leaving his practice and getting out of town, most likely because of Bob and his neurotic nature. Bob is pawned off to Dr. Leo Marvin. When Leo meets Bob he gives him his book “Baby Steps”, and then sends him on his way. Bob feels great about his initial session, he has hope and for the first time in his life he has found someone that can truly help him. This initiates Bob’s attachment to Leo. Leo informs Bob that their next meeting will be after his month-long vacation. Bob has no intention of leaving Leo alone and in peace on his vacation. Bob cunningly finds out exactly where Leo is vacationing and…

Through written words or ones spoken on a screen, The Help by Kathryn Stockett is a very thought provoking story. The controversies brought up throughout the storyline push us to ponder the rights and the wrongs committed throughout history. Another way to look at the story is through the characters, their relationships, and their feelings. In both the visual representation and the written version of The Help we are able to view these characters intertwine their stories with each other, to…

The help is a novel that was written by Kathryn Stockett. It is based in 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi and is about how a white lady called Miss Skeeter who wanted to write a book about what it was like for a black women to raise a white baby and then those babies end up becoming the boss. The main idea in the text is racial discrimination. The help gives perspectives of two black maids and Miss Skeeter. The two black maids are, Aibileen who works for one of Miss Skeeter’s friends Elizabeth…

James Joseph Mr. Miller ENGL 1301 21 September 2015 The Hurt Locker: Production and critic reviews The critically acclaimed low budget movie about a bomb disposing team The Hurt Locker was released in 2008. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, the first women to win an Academy Award for best director. The Film was nominated 94 times and won 132 awards. Though she is a women people say that she “…is a man’s director who happens to be a woman”. . Jeremy Renner stated that Kathryn was more masculine than…

The Help directed by Tate Taylor, is set in the early 1960s. The story follows the Southern society girl Skeeter Phelan after she returns from college to Jackson, Mississippi in hopes of becoming a writer. Skeeter begins interviewing black maids to learn about their experiences serving prominent white families. Although The Help gives the perspective of the black maids in this time period, The Help focuses too much on a white protagonist and does not focus enough on the stands that were taken…

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…

together. If they did so, they were usually arrested and sent to prison. By 1960, blacks and whites were able to be together. They could eat together, drink from the same water fountain, use the same bathrooms, and surprisingly even get married. Back in 1991, 48% approved blacks and whites to marry. Today, it is 85% percent approved. Although the percentages went up, some couples are still looked at funny. Some people have a hard time adjusting to the interracial relationships. This will take a…

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…