Chapter 23 Of The Help By Kathryn Stockett

In Kathryn Stockett’s novel, The Help, she shows readers the harsh reality of living in the racist cities of southern United States. Set in 1960’s Mississippi, The Help focuses on the austere lives of black maids working for white families. Some people living in this society wanted change to be made in society. However, one character in particular, Hilly Holbrook, exemplifies how many people wanted everything to stay as it was, including the racist tendencies and biased attitudes. Stockett uses Hilly as the main antagonist of the novel to show the audience that the mindset of people like her are morally wrong and in no way justified. Hilly’s villainy goes unmatched by the way she uses her social standing to influence others, bullies anyone who disagrees, and provides a character foil to Skeeter.

The Help written by Kathryn Stockett is about a white woman, Skeeter with the help of the maids, writes a novel about what it is like to work for white families and raise their children. Telling the maids’ point of views and also exposes a lot of the truth but dirty secrets. By maids

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.

Kathryn Stockett's The Help is a novel set in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi and follows the lives of two black maids, Minny and Aibileen, and a privileged young white woman, Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan. Together these three women set out to compile a book explaining how it is to work as a black maid in Jackson. While some critics argue The Help perpetuates black stereotypes and confines black women into "Mammy" roles, the novel actually promotes discussion of racial issues faced in the 1960 by black maids in a realistic manner without confining black women to a racist role.

This paper examines the theme of deception within Kathryn Stockett’s novel, The Help. It particularly focuses on the oppression of minorities as a consequence of deceptive attitudes that existed strongly within the context Stockett writes, 1960’s society in Jackson Mississippi. The paper focuses on two main groups of minorities, the African Americans as a racial minority, and females as a gender minority.

The Help by Kathryn Stockett tells the story of Skeeter a writer, Minny a colored maid who can’t keep a job, and Abilene a maid who has been taking care of children and their families since she was a teen. The year is 1962 and theses women decided to write a book that unintentionally fought segregation.

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 Help is a drama set in Jackson, Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s. The film focuses on the development of Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, a young, aspiring Anglo American author trying to find her way in the world of writing. After becoming closer acquainted with Aibileen, an African-American maid employed by her peer Elizabeth Leefolt, Skeeter becomes more aware of the racist attitudes that white Americans in her community have towards ‘black’ Americans. After successfully interviewing Minny, Aibileen 's best friend and fellow maid, Skeeter interviews the maids of multiple households and collects their stories and experiences of their lives. This leads Skeeter on a risky path towards bringing awareness to black

Kathryn was born in 1969 in Jackson Mississippi. She is a writer of the book The Help.

Minny exposes to so many abuses by her husband as a result of his dismissal from his job by Hilly’s husband, one of the white women that exists in the published book. Hilly also squeeze out Aibileen that she’ll send her to the jail when she knew that there are chapters about her friend Elizabeth on the published book, but Aibileen follows the same way of bargaining. She threaten her to show up the she is the woman who exists in the last chapter in the help, a woman who ate the defecating pie. And Skeeter has a chance to work as a copy editor in New York City at Harper’s Magazine. But she finally refused in order to not leave the black maids. At last but not least, Kathryn Stocett succeeds in the use of theme of anger throughout The Help. Although it is a fictional story, but it based on a true story that Stockett lives one like it. So the goal beyond this story that it has achieved the aim of writer. The Help helps Stockett to think in the place she lives currently, because the fictional characters existed in the story like a lot many of women who live there. One thinks that Stockett achieved goal of literature according to them of anger throughout alerting people who read this book will be helped to care for their nannies and helpers in a far better

The novel The Help was written by Kathryn Stockett in 2009. It reveals the struggle and changes that the black maids in the early 60’s went through and their fight for equality. The Help tells a story of three women, one white and two black, and the racial divide between the southern households of Jackson, Mississippi and their black maids. Skeeter, the white college graduate, seeks the truth about how the maids were treated and to start a secret project with the maids where the maids’ voices will be heard.

Stockett’s main purpose for writing The Help was to portray the difficult situation of the segregated south, and to write about “the affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segregation” (Newsmakers 1). Stockett began to write the novel after the 9-11 attacks as in “that moment of fear generated by the terrorist attacks in New York, Stockett began to write for comfort” (Newsmakers 1). Not only did she write The Help as a means of describing the life she grew up in, but she also wrote it as a means of finding consolation during rough times in the U.S. Stockett is able to successfully reach her audience by using Demetrie as a means of inspiration for Aibileen and Minny, and by giving the readers a firsthand account of the segregation in the 1960s from the experiences in her own life. She adeptly is able to “locate racist behavior in the most ignoble characters”, while also being able to “sentimentalize relationships between black workers and their white employers” (Smith 26). Stockett uses the character of Skeeter to bridge the relationships between whites and blacks by drawing on Skeeter’s aspirations as a writer with “ideas [she] thought [were] worthy journalism material” and the relationship she had with her former maid Constantine (Stockett 72). Skeeter was very close with Constantine, and Stockett goes above

The setting for the novel, The Help, written by Kathryn Stockett was Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s. The book’s purpose was to show African American maids’ lifestyles while working for white households. This novel offered a demonstration of racial discrimination and injustice.

In the novel, The Help, written by Kathryn Stockett, Stockett cleverly displays the condescending outlook of most white people toward the black race in the rural American South through the perception of black house maids, or “the help,” in the early to mid-twentieth century. Though black people had been set free from the bondage of slavery for nearly one hundred years, black citizens still faced oppression from the predominantly white elites of society all across the southern states. It is through Stockett’s strategic placing of the character Miss Skeeter in the novel that she illuminates the deep of roots rascist bigotry in the American South, the popular expectation of women, and the hardships faced by black citizens. Throughout the duration

“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