Maid

the early 1930’s in the small, rural town of Maycomb, Alabama. This story is told from the perspective of Jean Louise Finch, nicknamed Scout, as a grown woman, looking back on her younger days. Scout lives with her father Atticus, brother Jem and her maid Calpurnia. The Finch family…

that this is how black and Latino bodies are in all types of nature. Furthermore it will divulge on how we as an audience take stereotypes and apply it to all beings. To demonstrate these complexities I will use the film Maid in Manhattan and articles that speak on the issue. Maid in Manhattan…

Fall break at Central Hinds started on a half a day on a Friday through the next Monday. On Friday we had the Homecoming football game. At the game the Homecoming maids came through so all the parents and fans could see how beautiful they were. All the girls got out of their cars and headed start to the football field with their moms to be announced of the intercom. I was not able to watch the girls walk on the field because I went to pick up my favorite family, the Sherers. I met the Sherers at…

afraid of what the white women would do to them if they did the smallest thing wrong. Some of the actions that the women took made it seem like they were completely under the control of the whites whom they worked for. Many of the white women who the maids worked for would not only control her during her own hours but she would “limits her right as a social being to socialize with others”. This meant that they would try to…

the civil right movement. For example, in the movie, Hilly and her friends were upholding a campaign to expand the separate-but-equal status in the household of their home. Hilly decided to get a toilet installed outside of her house and expected the maid to use it there. This example is what happened in the world we live in today but somewhat different. The restrooms back in the day had a sign for colored for, white and others.…

rest of her friends, she finished her four years in college. When she moved back home, instead of dropping her interests of becoming a writer and looking for a husband, Skeeter started looking for a job at a newspaper. Skeeter views African-American maids in a different way than the rest of her community. She is interested in their point of view and how they feel about the families they have worked for and how they are treated. While others blow them off and treat them like they were…

interesting to note that mostly the older people were most racist versus the children. In fact, the children expressed affection and trust towards their maids. There is also conflict between Skeeter and her mother on Skeeter being single. In the 1960s, women were expected to marry young and become housewives, hence the reason why Celia hires a maid. The implication here is that women who can not get pregnant, or are unmarried, are deemed…

Anymore movies are knockoffs of already previously written books, comics, or already shown movies. Very few movies are original anymore. Now some of those movies are not half bad. Some have actually become popular such as Batman Vs. Superman, Hungergames, and Divergent. Even though they are knockoffs of the original work; the movies become off the chart hits. One of those movies that have become timeless to people, and me, is the movie called The Help. The Help is a movie set in the time of…

In the book “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett, takes place in Mississippi, in the early 1960’s. A women named Skeeter, who wants to become a writer, comes back from collage and finds out that her childhood maid/nanny, Constantine, has left and no one is telling her why. Later in the book Skeeter chooses to do an interview with African American women, who’ve spent their lives taking care of well-known white families. Only Aibileen who is Skeeters best friend’s housekeeper, was willing to talk first,…

when Aibileen agrees to tell her story to Skeeter. This is significant, for it represents a willingness to speak the truth despite her fear. Aibileen is also instrumental in convincing Minnie to tell her story to Skeeter; once Minnie talks, the other maids begin talking, too. Another important moment is when Hilly humiliates Skeeter in front of the League. This one act changes up how all the white women in town treat Skeeter and sets up a kind of tension between them which requires an…