Character Analysis: The Help By Kathryn Stockett

The Help by Kathryn Stockett gave everyone insight to the life of an African American woman in the early 1960s. The Help criticized racial inequality, and gives society an insider's view of segregation and fear of the status quo in their own race. Throughout the 1960s many African American woman worked in housekeeping. The novel follows the lives of three maids who are have a book wrote from their point of view. The story follows them as they go through the struggles of life and how stressful writing the book is on them because of time period and how dangerous it was to be seen with a person of the different race if you weren't working for them. Being seen with a person of the different race could get you labeled or worse thrown in jail for an integration violation.

In the novel Sold by Patricia McCormick, Lakshmi is a 13 year old mountain girl who lives in Nepal. She has been sold to somebody as a prostitute for 10,000 rupees but she doesn't know that. The value of a human life is more than just a dollar amount.

The color of one's skin does not define them; nor does it give people the power to define others. Kathryn Stockett's novel, "The Help" is an eye-opening and awe-inspiring story about coloured women speaking their truth. The truth is spoken through Skeeter, a white woman who believes that change is needed in Jackson, Missippi. After hearing about Aibileen's late son's idea about writing a book of what it's like to work for the white men, Skeeter asks if she could write a story about the help. A dozen maids tell their stories of what it's like working for the white folks, and with this truth comes consequences, betrayal, and the loss of friends.

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 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.

“‘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.

Kathryn Stockett takes a daring step in writing this amazing novel - The Help. In Sockets’ novel, which takes places in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 60s, a time in which race was a problem in society. African Americans had a much harder lifestyle than any other race, some of their job opportunities were labor in the fields, for men and for women house work was their highest opening. Having a little work opportunity in this novel Stockett takes two African Americans as her main characters. Kathryn, a white women, with no experience in house work writes this magnificent novel of equal rights for African Americans.

According to The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 7 in 10 black people feel that their race has been a disadvantage in their life (np). This statistic is clearly evident in A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines. Set in Louisiana, the book centers around a black community that was trying to survive in a society set up to defeat them. A young black man named Jefferson was convicted of a murder that he didn’t commit and was sentenced to death, all because of his race. Jefferson was called a hog in front of the entire court, and Grant, a teacher, was given the job of making Jefferson into a man before his execution. Other people of color in their community struggled to feed their kids, get a proper education, and live

“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.

Aibileen, a black maid working for Elizabeth Leefolt, has taken care of eighteen white babies and watched them grow from innocent children into children influenced by their parents beliefs of racism. When Skeeter is talking to Elaine Stein, she mentions that the help loves the children and the children love the help, but before they know it, the children are grown and become the employers of their once loved help. Aibileen is empowered to contribute to the novel because of her extreme love for Mae Mobley. Aibileen is able to empathize with Mae Mobley because neither Aibileen nor Mae Mobley fit in with society’s standards. Throughout the novel, Aibileen teaches Mae Mobley lessons of self-love and racism and prejudice. At first, Aibileen denies Skeeter’s proposal into writing the book. However, once the Home Health Sanitation Initiative is set into place and Aibileen hears all of the terrible things Miss Hilly has to say about blacks, such as the diseases the

Civil Rights literature has been in hiding from the millions of readers in the world. Kathryn Stockett’s book, The Help, widely opens the doors to the worldwide readers to the experiences of those separated by the thin line drawn between blacks and whites in the 1960s. Kathryn makes her experiences of the character’s, making their stories as compelling as her own.

The book The Help by Kathryn Stockett is about a white lady, Miss. Skeeter. She is going to write a book that speaks the truth about the life of a black maid working in southern white homes. One of the main conflicts is with Aibileen. In the book The Help by Kathryn Stockett, Aibileen has an internal conflict on whether or not to share her story with Miss Skeeter, so that Skeeter can put it into the book. Sharing her story is a huge danger and she is basically risking her life.

The Help was published in 2005 by Kathryn Stockett. It was her first novel and it takes place around 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi where Stockett grew up. Stockett takes inspiration from the segregation she 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 the segregation during the period of the Civil Rights Movement.

“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