The Housemaid

a beacon for the world. In the book The Help by Kathryn Stockett, the three main characters, Skeeter, Aibileen, and Minny, set out on a journey to define their moralities by exposing the oppression of racism and prejudice put upon black domestic housemaids in Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960’s. Under the guidance of Skeeter, the various educations of the women reveal the hidden talents within them, one fish out of water white college graduate, the other two domestic house servants,…

Anne Moody is a vital character to discuss when talking about Citizenship and how it changed and evolved during the time of her life. Anne Moody grew up in Mississippi as the daughter of a sharecropper. She and her family lived on the Carter’s plantation, Moody was born on September 15, 1940. The autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi, follows Moody from age four until after college, when she has become a civil rights activist. Anne is from the town of Centreville, Mississippi, a town that…

Betsy Ann, which is know as Abigail Williams in Salem, had went to the West Indies after she had ran away from. She kept her identity a secret because she did not want anyone to know anything about what had happened to her in Salem, Massachusetts where she originally lived. Betsy Ann had become a prostitute; she never found anyone she loved the way that she loved John. Little did she know John Procter took his life by not confessing that he was a witch; God damns all liars. Which is exactly what…

It was very honorable of him to die rather than be a careless host. Mother, did you hear of the scandal that occurred at the Burgundy household. According to my good friend Fleur, one of their housemaids was stealing Mme. Burgundy’s valuable jewels. No one noticed because she would steal one piece a day. When Mme. Burgundy finally noticed the maid was well on her way out of the city. Can you imagine the embarrassment! I know you never cared for…

Life wouldn't be life without music today. If we didn't have music the world wouldn't go round and round like it does. Music is our way to escape life and be free from all our problems bills, family and relationships. There are many different type of music but right now I’m going to talk about R&B and jazz. Woman and men could sing jazz or R&B. with the top records at the top of the charts these singers were unbelievable. Billie Holiday and Kelly Rowland are very amazing singers and they manage…

Offred’s struggles throughout Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale illustrates the effects that relationships and experiences have on an individual’s sense of self and hunger for freedom. The Republic of Gilead is a warped modern-day rendition of Puritan life, a “fertility cult” (Nakamura 3) under the guise of a religious society. Like the Puritans and many other historical cultures, the women of Gilead are treated like objects to be issued, thus robbed of their voice and their…

AN EXEMPLARY LIFE A person who lives an exemplary life is someone others can look to when identifying ideals they value. This exemplary person is not faultless, but ultimately lives a life others notice and can model their own lives after. When thinking about a person like this, I immediately considered Alice Blackwell, the main character of Curtis Sittenfeld's novel, “American Wife.” Over the summer I read this book multiple times and I realized the tale was so grabbing because of how much I…

away her last breath without being offered a meagre gift of hopefulness. Ofelia is seen as the inventive but also courageously faithful girl who is eager to sacrifice her life as well as her mythic destiny for love of her infant half-brother. The Housemaid and surrogate mother of Ofelia, is in secret, a guerrilla soldier rebelling against a despotic political regime; her idealism and optimism allowed her to endure the indignities in life. Captain Vidal regards her as “just a woman”. But in the…

If I have learned anything about history, it is that not everyone has the pleasure of knowing their story or past glory. Archived memories and experiences create scenes of the past that we can feel and relive if told in the right light. Family is an important treasure that only some get the privilege of cherishing; blood or bond, family is what holds us when the world lets us go. Going back to the day my grandmother was born, it began the lives of the people I know and love today and has shaped…

In Guillermo del Toro’s masterpiece, “Pan’s Labyrinth”, he explores the important connection of a person and their imagination within everyday reality. Based on a fairy tale, Princess Moanna whose father is king of the underworld visits the human world where she is blinded by sunlight, which then erases her memory and becomes mortal. The setting is in Spain 1944, during the country’s Civil War. The film follows Ofelia; a young girl whose father died in the war and her pregnant mother married…