Analysis Of The Movie ' The Help ' By Kathryn Stockett

Throughout The Help, Kathryn Stockett incorporated a variety of cultural themes that are as relevant today as they were fifty years ago when the story took place. The main themes that remain an issue throughout the book are racial discrimination and class limitations as well as restrictive gender roles. These issues help to add to the contemporary value of the book because even though it has been half a century, news headlines involving issues or breakthroughs regarding race and gender are still common, just like in The Help. Probably the biggest cultural significance comes from issues in the book regarding racial inequality. The book takes place in a highly segregated town where African Americans are discriminated against and looked down upon. In modern times, just the year before the publication of the book, in 2008, Barack Obama was elected the first African American president of the United States. This milestone was an incredible accomplishment for African Americans all over. Because all African Americans, men and women both, have been able to vote without any restrictions for over fifty years, the fact that the first African American president was elected as the 44th president was a bit surprising, solely due to the fact that this feat took the amount of time that it did. A breakthrough this monumental shows just how much progress is still yet to be made regarding race in the United States. Another cultural value in the book is the

Hilly Holbrook is a big driving force in the idea that segregation is needed in the city of Jackson. Therefore, her acts consistently confirm this statement as she is on the move constantly to find new ways to maintain or promote segregation and keep the social classes in order according to her mind as president of the Junior League. From her bathroom initiative to her lies involving Minny, her mother’s former maid, Hilly finds any way possible, no matter how deceitful, to stay in possession of power as a high class white women living in

The film ‘The Help” is originally a fictional novel based off of the actual characteristics of southern societies during the 1960’s. It is also recognized to display the end of racial injustice towards blacks to bring forth a new era of the civil rights movement. Even though it is merely a fictional book and movie, The Help is historically accurate as it portrays an economical, social , and political division between female white and African American societies. In The Help, white middle and upper class women are portrayed to be southern belle’s of Jackson, Mississippi while black women and their families live in poverty.

The early 1960’s was an alarming time period in which many social issues occurred. The Help and Hidden Figures both evolve around the struggles that women, particularly women of color, faced during the 1960’s. Both books portray gender inequality, in addition to displaying segregation of African Americans and other colored folks. The book discussed topics such as gender inequality which has affected women throughout the ages, and while the differences have patched up, women are still being affected today. In the 1960s, women were not allowed to apply for most jobs as they were considered of lesser value than men. Women also weren’t allowed human rights, such as voting. Problems were further driven by segregation, which is another commonality in these two books. Segregation affects people mainly of color and played a major role in the history of America. African American people were treated unfairly, and people did their best to have no relations with them. There were separate bathrooms, separate schools, and separate stores for those people who were of African American heritage. The Help, written by Kathryn Stockett in 2009, is a fictional story about African Americans working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the early 1960s. The author makes use of shifting viewpoints and dialogue of the characters and changes vantage point of the story’s events by telling each chapter from a different character's point of view. The author also uses first person point of

“The Help, a book about race and class relations in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s,” [a time where many African Americans were fighting for equal rights.] At that time African-American women had few options but to labor as exploited domestics for wealthy white families [to be able to get food and shelter for their families”] (Site, World Socialist Web. "The Help). Kathryn Stockett takes a bold step as a white woman with no experience as a maid to have two narrators in her book as African Americans who tell their perspective of what it is like to live as maids. The theme, tone, literary devices, and how she develops the stories of African American maids is part of what makes this book so intriguing.

The novel ‘The Help’ written by Kathryn Stockett explores the theme of racial prejudice. During the time this novel was set in Jackson, Mississippi was strictly under the Jim Crow laws which brought about discrimination and segregation rules and regulations. In the novel, we see how people of colour are treated and hated on by the people in their community. With the main focus being how the white housewives treat their black maids. We see an insight into how these white housewives justify the exploitation and emotional abuse they laid upon their black maids, by believing that people of colour are physically different and therefore inferior to white people. Race is the number one way people in Jackson determine a person's social status and how someone is treated in society, therefore the people of colour are treated differently and thought little of in comparison to white people. Often black people being degraded and hurt emotionally and physically because they are said to be ‘different’. Throughout the novel we see how the white people in society refer to their maids and people of colour in descriptive and derogatory ways, usually comparing them to animals. This shows us how in the novel white people believe that there is a major difference between them and people of colour, implying that black people are more like animals rather than others of the human race. In the novel, one of the white housewives Miss Hilly expresses her belief that people of colour are ‘unclean,’ and ‘diseased ridden’, apparently carrying and catching depravity and disease which are not carried by whites. An example of this in the text is when Miss Hilly say that she wants to pass "A bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help. I've even notified the surgeon general of Mississippi to see if he'll endorse the idea. I'll pass." This quote shows us how the authorities in this book also contribute to the racial prejudice against the black people. There was false information stated about the blacks just because of their colour, and this brought even more segregation between the races. This quote makes me feel sad. Sad for the poor people of colour being discriminated against, but also sad that white

The Help written by Kathryn Stockett takes place during the 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi where Stockett grew up. Stockett takes inspiration from the segregation witnessed in her hometown and the African American maid Demetrie, with whom she grew up with, to write a passionate yet controversial novel in which she depicts the struggle between whites and blacks along with the emotional struggle that the main characters endure throughout the novel. The Help has been widely renowned, yet disputable, as Stockett uses the different aspects of life in the south that she grew up with to write a fictional yet realistic account of segregation during the period of the Civil Rights Movement.

The Help by Kathryn Stockett is set in Jackson, Mississippi, and told primarily from the perspectives of three women: Aibileen Clark, Minny Jackson, and Skeeter Phelan. Also known as the “deep south”, during 1962 when segregation between the races was strictly enforced. In this area, a good deal of the society's work was focused on civil rights. Jackson is depicted as culturally resistant to change and is ruled by a single way of thinking - as far as the people who lod some kind of power are concerned. This setting captures the essence of racism and activism in such a small town, but in such a small town there is great hope and importance in civil rights ESPECIALLY in Mississippi during this time period. In 1962 Mississippi, there were no such

The renowned novel, The Help, written by Kathryn Stockett is based on the lives of three women surrounding the ever-growing topic of racism in Mississippi of the 1950s and 1960s. Some critics think that this fiction is a general story focused mainly on the problems of racism and how relationships are affected by it. Other critics believe that Stockett created this story similar to her own life and to the life of Ablene Cooper. Ablene Cooper accused Stockett of fictionalizing her character without her permission; as a result, great uproar from critics has many discussing the real motive behind Stockett’s novel. It is my belief that though it may have been unintentional, the work is a biographical account of Ablene Cooper, for the similarities of physical attributes, names, personal situations, and other maids are too similar to be fiction.

The Help is Kathryn Stockett first novel, published in 2009 by G.P Putman’s Sons 2009. It has spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. The main themes of the book include racial segregation, a male dominated society and social hierarchy. What makes this book a truly scintillating one is the grave humor and imagery used to highlight the condition of Black maids in the 1960’s in America.

For my film/documentary analysis paper, I chose the movie The Help. This movie was actually originally a book written by Kathryn Stockett, but then in 2011, a screenplay was written and directed by Tate Taylor. I selected this film because it directly relates to some of the topics we talk about in class. Some of them being segregation and discrimination. In society today, segregation and discrimination play a huge role in how minorities are perceived. I wanted to find a film that showed the effect they play from both the minority’s point of view and the majority’s, and that’s how I decided to watch The Help.

She exposes the corruption in society that most people often ignore. Based on the novel, Miss Hilly is a white woman who identifies the white race to be superior to the colored race. The prevailing belief of Miss Hilly’s that colored people carry a “disease”, encourage that all white families should build an outside bathroom for their maids to use. The outcome of pointing this issue out is to show awareness; and for readers to examine their own prejudice and limitations. Stockett is determined to use the stories from the book to give a larger message for the society to know about.

Walt Disney Studio’s 2011 film, “The Help” is an adaption of Kathryn Stockett’s 2009 novel of the same name. The Help is an American drama film, and stars a powerhouse cast, with the leading roles played by Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, and Allison Janney. The film was both written and directed by Kathryn Stockett’s friend Tate Taylor, who was given the rights to the film before her book was even published.

“Help people even when you know they can’t help you back”.  The Help written by american  author  Kathryn Stockett was published in the early 2000’s.  Set in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, Stockett’s first novel is narrated by three women: Aibileen and Minny are both black maids working for ladies from the cream of white society, while Miss Skeeter is the 23-year-old daughter of one of those pillars of the community. Aibileen has raised 17 white children, but her own son has been recently killed in an accident at a lumber yard; Minny is forever losing jobs because she talks back to her employers; and Miss Skeeter, so called because she looked like a mosquito when she was born, is ungainly

The name of the film is “The Help.” The leading actresses are Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O'Reilly and Allison Janney. Tate Taylor is the director of the film and it was released on August 10, 2011. This is a real story based on the novel “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett. The main point of the movie is for African-American maids to tell their story of how it was working for Caucasian people.