Analysis Of The Help By Kathryn Stockett

The book , The Help by Kathryn Stockett, is about a women named Aibileen who is a black maid. She is taking care of her 17th white baby now. She works for a woman named Miss Leefolt. Aibileen has never disobeyed an order in her life and never intends to do so. Her friend Minny is the exact opposite. When she is around her boss, she has to hold herself back from sassing them all the time. Skeeter Phelan is different than the rest of the white ladies. She thinks that blacks aren’t all that bad. She decides to write a book about the lives of maids for white ladies. Otherwise known as the Help. She with the help of Aibileen and Minny hope to create a book that starts a revolution about what white people think about blacks.

“‘Don’t you ever wish you could change things?”’ (10). In Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960’s, woman ahead of her time, Miss Skeeter, proposes an idea to write a book about the lives of colored maids in Jackson. Aibileen and Minny, two maids, are among the first ones to agree to help Skeeter, despite the potential danger to themselves. In The Help, Kathryn Stockett creates an engaging and immersive world that explores racism and social injustice by using well-developed writing, the ideal amount of imagery, and strong characters.

The book “The Help”, written by Kathryn Stockett, is a book that takes place in Jackson, Mississippi, around the 1960's, when the blacks were segregated from the whites. The story is mainly about a black woman Aibileen whose main job is to take care of children as well as to handle household duties. Along the way they meet a woman Skeeter's whose lifelong dream is to become a writer however the only job she can find, is with the Jackson Journal writing a housekeeping advice column which she knows very little about. To succeed in the job, Skeeter turns to her friend's maid, Aibileen, for answers and help to write the column.

The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, is story about the journey of a young woman, Skeeter, standing up for what she believes in and following her dreams. This story is set in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960’s, which is the height of the Civil Rights movement period. The story is through the viewpoint of three narrators: Skeeter Phalen, Aibileen Clark, and Minny Jackson. Skeeter is the main narrator out of the three. She is a young white woman returning home after receiving her journalism degree from Ole Miss. She is reuinited by her friends, Hilly Holbrook and Elizabeth Leefolt.. After receiving a job at the Jackson Journal writing for the home cleaning section, she goes to Aibileen, Elizabeth’s colored maid, for help. She and

In the novel “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett, the three main characters Skeeter, Minny, and Aibileen live in a very racist 1962 Jackson, Mississippi. Skeeter is a white girl dreaming of writing when all her mother wants is for her to get married and look nice, Aibileen is an African-American maid dealing with the death of her only son, and Minny is another African-American maid with 5 children, a husband constantly coming home drunk, and having troubles finding work after an unfortunate event happened with Miss Hilly, her old employer’s racist daughter. In “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett the theme is that some causes are worth taking risks for. The author shows this by showing the growth of all three main characters from the beginning to the end. At first they didn’t have a voice, but then they recognize they can help each other and by the end of the book they are even taking risks together.

In the book, The Help, Hilly Holbrook, a resident of Jackson, Mississippi, is distinctly portrayed as the antagonist of the novel. Her power and wit sustain her hunger for control among not only the “help” of the city but the socialites and newcomers of Jackson as well. However, She uses her height on the social status in town as leverage for her many schemes. Among the Junior League, new citizens of Jackson, and the initiation of new ideas to promote segregation in areas such restrooms within the homes of white citizens with colored “help”, Hilly empowers many southern whites at the time of the civil rights movement. It is through the portrayal of a female figure that the idea of segregation is enforced not only by the authoritative male figures of this time, but the dominant woman that drive the

“‘Don’t you ever wish you could change things?”’ (Stockett 10). In Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s. A woman ahead of her time, Miss Skeeter, proposes an idea to write a book about the lives of colored maids in Jackson. Aibileen and Minny, two maids, are among the first ones to agree to help Skeeter, despite the potential danger to themselves. In The Help, Kathryn Stockett creates an engaging and immersive world that explores racism and social injustice by using well-developed writing, the ideal amount of imagery, and strong characters.

“The Help” by Kathryn Stockett is a personal memoir written in the perspective of 20 year old graduate Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan. This story begins with Skeeter finishing school and coming home to a house with her maid, Constantine Jefferson, no where to be found. She begins questioning her mother about her whereabouts, with no luck. She begins to understand the prejudice that comes with being black in the day and age of 1962, with hopes of getting these women to tell their sides of the story she sets out on recruiting Aibileen.

The Help by Kathryn Stockett, is a book set in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, told by three different women: Abilene, Minny and Skeeter, in each of their perspectives. Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan is a graduate student whose dream is to become a writer, but when she tries for a position at the local newspaper, she is given the job of writing housekeeping tips.

The Help by Kathryn Stockett is set in the time period of the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi. During this time, slavery has ended but segregation was still happening every day. African American women, at the time, worked and cleaned for a white family households. Minny Jackson and Aibileen Clark are both maids for white families. During Minny and Aibileen's lives, as black maids, they are treated with disrespect and injustice by Hilly Holbrook and Elizabeth Leefolt, and are only treated with kindness by Cecilia Foote.

Kathryn Stockett’s, The Help, introduces two main characters in the novel who reveal their drastic experiences of the day-to-day life of an African American during the early 1960’s. These hard working ladies, Aibileen Clark and Minny, dedicate and spend their lives taking care of white families and raising their innocent children. Discrimination played a big role in the society during this era, and was considered normal; however, these tough and independent women took every day as a new challenge to look for the the best outcome. In the novel, Kathryn Stockett interprets nature imagery to symbolize the traumatic experiences and struggles each black minority undergoes.

The novella is a microcosm of the society. It has all the characters of each stage of the social ladder. At the bottom end there’s the character Crooks who’s discriminated because of his colour. Next there are the women, for instance Curley’s wife, who’s name is not even mentioned in the book, she’s referred as a possession, in this case to her husband. As a woman she has no value in the society and therefore she is not allowed to pursue her dreams. People are also wrongly judged by what they could offer economically to society, such as Candy who is treated inadequately because he’s elderly and Lennie who is simple minded and behaves childishly, that mostly depends on George, who gets him out of trouble. George being a loyal and closest friend and by keeping his promise to Aunt Clara patiently takes care of him. As can be expected the boss’s son who is a white is the only one ‘worthy’ to be in command. These separations make

The Help is set in the early 1960’s in Jackson Mississippi. Kathryn Stockett chose this location because that is where she was born and raised. Though she was born in the 1970’s a whole lot hadn’t changed regarding white and colored people. The only thing that had changed were the law books but what didn't change were the kitchens of white homes.

This week for english I read chapters 12 through 23 of The Help. The Help is an inspiringing novel by Kathryn Stockett about two black women living in America in the 60s. With help from a white friend, Miss Skeeter, the women Aibileen and Minny get to share their thoughts and feelings towards how they’re treated. Miss Skeeter is working hard to become a writer and journalist, and needs the help from these two black maids. She regularly interviews them about what it’s like to be a colored civilian and the challenges they face. Unlike Skeeter’s friends from college, she doesn’t like how people treat the colored people. I really love her character because she stands up for what is truly right, even though many dangerous risks come with it. If

Kathryn was born in Jackson Mississippi, and lived there all of her childhood. While living in Mississippi, her Grandmother owned a colored maid named Demetrie. Stockett loved Demetrie, and out of everyone else, Stockett was Demetrie’s favorite. Demetrie joined Stockett’s family when she was twenty-eight. She worked for them until her death. Before she died she would talk to Kathryn all day, but when she was on break, Stockett’s grandmother would not allow Kathryn to speak to Demetrie because that was Demetrie’s alone time. Also, Demetrie was seen as lesser than whites, and no white fellow was to sit at a dinner table with an African American. Stockett and Demetrie would discuss life, and Demetrie would always compliment Kathryn because Kathryn was lacking self confidence as she was growing up (“Kathryn Stockett”). Demetrie is who inspired Kathryn Stockett to write her famous novel The Help; Demetrie was always there for Stockett and her two other siblings. During the time of Stockett’s parent’s divorce, Demetrie turned into a motherly figure that made Kathryn feel secure and at home. Therefore, when Demetrie passed away--Stockett was only sixteen at the time--the death did not settle very well with Kathryn. She eventually moved out of Mississippi, and on to New York. New York is where she began writing The Help