Analysis Of The Movie ' The Help '

The movie ‘The Help,’ is based in Jackson, Mississippi in 1963, which is directed from a black women’s view of how they go through life being a maid for a white women. In the beginning Skeeter ask, Aibileen; “What does it feel like raising a white child when your children are at home are being raised by someone else?” Aibileen was at loss of words, because years ago she had lost her son. Aibileen is a kind woman trying to make her living being a help for Elizabeth Leefolt.

“The help” film is a perfect representation of how the south was and gives an idea on how bad African Americans were treated even if they were being paid and not only that but it also shows how different everything was back then. For example, as shown in the movie the women back then were quite different from today. Skeeter the main character is described as a very independent woman compared to the rest of the white female characters. She doesn’t seem to have an interest in men now but considers finding a dependable job unlike the other white females. Skeeter was also an educated woman and even had a bachelor’s degree. Back in that specific time frame this was rather odd for a lady to be educated. Skeeter tries to advocate for the events that are occurring within southern homes by writing the experiences of the Jackson, Mississippi’s black maids. Meanwhile, the film shows southern culture in great detail.

Taking place in Jackson, Mississippi, the time period of The Help, the 1960’s, about a hundred years after slavery had been abolished, African Americans were still suffering from the torment of white people, and their discrimination against the African American community. Throughout The Help, the isolation and poor treatment towards African American citizens was documented thoroughly.

The legal system during the time of the help benefited the white and harmed the black because of the segregation laws that were passed. In the book, The Help, all the maids were afraid of telling their stories. If their white bosses were to find out they would be in bad trouble. The black maids just had to abide by the law and everything would be fine. The legal system in 1960 was different than it is today. Now a day’s people get in trouble for discriminating blacks. People like to see each other as an equal person, with equal rights. The white children were even taught that mistreating a black person was ok because that’s just how the law was. Back in the 1960s children were raised to treat blacks with little respect. They were taught that

In the movie The Help, there are many characters portrayed and all of them follow their own set of motives to reach their goals. The movie, to me, appears to be the cliche white shaming movie, and the creators are obviously left wing and want to preach the left wing status and show the struggles we no longer face. Before I get into my character and categories I would like to discuss Left and Right Wing. Left Wing typically believes that the government should have the utmost power and they are usually liberals, however, the Right Wing thinks the government should have little to no power and that personal goals and power should be the top priority, these are what we usually call conservatives. The character who I will be analyzing is Hilly Holbrook. Very quickly into the introduction of Hilly, she is portrayed as the “bad guy” or villian of the film because again, this is a left wing film and Hilly is very clearly right wing. Like most characters in The Help, you can generally see their intended values based on the color of clothing they are wearing, usually red, white, or blue. Hilly constantly wears red a color commonly associated with the right wing, which continually paints her such throughout the film. The bipolar categories of her ideology are International vs. Nationalistic, Democratic vs. Hierarchical, and Insiders vs. Outsiders.

To explain the movie plot, we must remember that the film takes place in the south during the Civil Rights era. In the

The title of the movie selected by the group was “The Help”. The Help” is a movie released in August 2011. The movie explores the unequal treatment suffered by the maids at the hands of their white, middle class oppressors. During this era in the south laws was in effect which constricted the ability of the maids and their sympathizers to raise awareness of the social inequalities which were, and still are in several areas, culturally acceptable. “The Help” depicts the issues of cultural inequalities more than a hundred years after slavery had been abolished.

The movie “The Help” was based In the early 1960’s in Jackson, Mississippi. During this period of time it was very segregated, very much so that whites did not want African Americans to have contact with them, but were expected to fully take care of their children from birth to adulthood. Most of the African American maids later developed a strong bond with the children that they looked after. They tried teaching the kids to see no color, just to later witness them grow up to be brainwashed by the world to think of African Americans as less than. Except for one southern girl named Skeeter Phelan, who saw the equality in everyone. And one day she decided to interview the maids to get their perspectives on life and to get their story out to the world. At first the maids were hesitant because it would be serious consequences if anyone knew who exactly spoke up, but Skeeter did whatever she could to make sure all the maids were anonymous and no one knew. She risked many hardships like losing her relationship with her boyfriend and also building tension with the women of the Junior League. Successfully the maids stories got out and it opened eyes little by little.

African American’s role in this country has been long and has never been easy. During the early years of the United States, African Americans endure the hardship of slavery and had to deal with beatings, harsh working conditions and constant yelling from their racist white owners. Even after the abolishment of slavery, African Americans still endure another one hundred years of discrimination. A perfect way to examine a pivotal time in American History of African Americans and the racism they went through is seen in the movie “The Help”. The movie is set to take place “in Mississippi during the 1950s-1960s, Skeeter is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends ' lives -- and a Mississippi town -- upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families.” (The Help) The movie was originally based on a book written by

The Help is a 2011 movie based on the book that was published in 2009. The entire movie is set in the early 1960s during the civil rights era. This movie looks into the lives of African American maids during this time period, seeing what they experienced and endured on a day to day basis. Due to the movie being set in the 1960s , The Help bares multiple social problems that can be found today. The most profound social problem depicted throughout the movie is racism. Female inequality is also a social problem that presents itself in the movie. Lastly, education was another social problem that I found very important, though the people of this time period didn’t see it as an issue. All of these social problems play a part in successfully portraying the

One of the best-selling books and the film ‘The Help’ is very closely relevant to the untold stories of African-American women and their experience in service to the white women – part of the narrative of civil rights and segregation in America. The Help is less about the undermined black servants than it is about the white sympathizers, extremely close to missing the point entirely. The civil rights movement was vast and complicated and included African-Americans and white people as heroes, If the whites are all presented as the bad ones and racist, then the picture isn’t at all accurate. If a movie is made which includes white people saving black people, and the movie ends happily, then the movie is downplaying the fact that the black people had any control over their own destinies, as was the deal with the makers of the movie ‘The Help’.

The Help has a plot that tells about American history and how times have changed over the decades. It shows what the lives were like of many different people in the 1960’s. In the 1960’s there were many racial boundaries that stopped African Americans from being free as well as separated them from the same rights that the whites had. The theme is represented by the main conflict in this story. A white lady named Skeeter writes a book to show the lives of African American maids in the 1960’s,

The movie, The Help, is based on the book written by Kathryn Stockett. It was released in 2011 and directed by Tate Taylor (Taylor, 2017). The Help is set in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960’s, and it is about the experiences black women had as maids for white families. These women decided to risk it all and tell their stories in an effort to show what is was really like for them (Taylor, 2011). The Help illustrates how these women fought racism and prejudice by becoming unified with one another. This paper will address how prejudice, discrimination, stereotyping, and inequality affect the characters and their relationships in the story.

Society has changed and evolved throughout time. Perhaps one of the most significant changed in contemporary American society is the treatment towards African Americans. “The Help” a feature film directed by Tate Taylor is based on the non-fictional novel “The Help” written by author Kathryn Sockett. The feature film explores the life of African American maids of Jackson Mississippi, in the early 1960’s. The 1960’s displayed all African Americans to being left out of the “American dream” through neglect and racism. African Americans faced prejudice and discrimination in almost every aspect of their life, from jobs to housing and even their education. They were denied the right to sit at the same lunch counter or use the same public rest

Kathryn Scott’s The Help takes place in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s. This movie emphasizes tense racial conflicts that dominated the South during this post-World War era.  Segregation of whites verse blacks was a prevailing and dominating theme of the decade. The Help attempts to depict this time period by focusing on a white woman, Skeeter Phelan, who aspires to become a journalist. Society considered Skeeter as an oddity for wanting to leave her family and pursue an education. She goes against all social norms and secretly asks her maid, Aibileen, to help her write a book about the lives of maids. Despite the overwhelming danger associated with their relationship Aibileen agrees and even encourages other maids to take part. The intention behind Skeeter Phelan’s book was to spark a movement and change the way white people view their help. The Help suggests that education is the only route to social change.