Describe The Relationship Between Aibileen And Minny

Being a colored woman in the 1960's was a difficult time, but Aibileen never let anything come in the way of pursuing her goals even if the outcomes affected her friends and social life. Aibileen knew if people were to find out that she was involved in the book, there would be a possibility she would never be hired again - the information would spread all across the country. In addition to no job, the white ladies they worked for had their own types of punishment because

Towards the end of Stockett’s novel, Aibileen has grown older and is now caring for two kids in the Leefolt house. Skeeter now tells Aibileen she has gotten a letter to go to New York and work for Miss Stein. When she goes, someone will need to take over the Miss Murna columns at the Jackson Journal. Here, Skeeter gives Aibileen the chance to take over for her. She also includes that she will receive the same amount of pay as she did. To this, Aibileen responds, “Me? Working for the white newspaper? I go to the sofa and open thee notebook, see them letters and articles from past times. Miss Skeeter set beside me (512)”. This is Aibileen basically conquering the issue of racism. The fact that Miss Skeeter put in such a good word about her that she got the job without an interview says wonders.

Mrs.Skeeter’s story could be a strong supporting plot to the journey of the two black maids, Aibileen and Minny, but instead her story is the main focus of the movie. This simple fact makes the film seem to almost downplay the racist attitudes towards black people in the 1960s. The movie could've gone down a much more horrific and revealing plotline if they had made Aibileen or Minny the main character. If the director had gone down this path the movie could have communicated a much deeper message and would have allowed the watchers to be revealed to some first hand accounts of racism. Although the movie does tell some stories of the two black maids quite well with some of their perspective shown, throughout the entire movie there seemed to be a “sugar coating” over everything. It was as if the producers wanted to “protect” their audience from how far the racist attitudes went and the horrific fallout from those attitudes. Also, parts of the movie seemed almost irrelevant to the main message and goals of the protagonists. Take for example the sub-plot of Skeeter finding a man. Despite it doing a good job of incorporating a secondary plot, this entire section could have been removed for something that better related to the theme of the movie. They could've put in more about the pasts of either Aibileen or Minny to further communicate how society viewed down upon black people and saw them as little better than rodents. Within the movie, the fact that Skeeter is the main character at all almost seems to take away from the other two protagonists, Aibileen and Minny. A lot of the time in the movie the heavier parts are broken up by the lighter more bright plot line of Skeeter. An example of this within the movie is when a black person is shot by a member of the KKK, and Aibileen has to run back to Minny's house and compose herself with Minny. This entire scene is extremely tense and is wonderful at

Aibileen, on the other hand, hasn’t obtained as much education as Mrs. Skeeter. Aibileen was black, and back in her days, blacks did not have the opportunity to receive the same education as whites did. Aiblieen was a very bright student and would have been very successful if she could have finished school. Even her teacher, Miss Ross, said that she was very intelligent, “You’re the smartest in the class, Abilieen.” Unfortunately, she could not finish school because she had to support her mother with bills that she could not pay herself. She stopped going to school when she was fourteen years old. She instead went to work as a maid and wait on white families. Because of her lack of education, she did not speak very well. She often used slang

The Film follows the journey of a young woman named Skeeter Phelan. She has just returned from living in New York and somehow her experiences there have changed her view of her home in Jackson Mississippi .Along her journey, she has discovered a new found friend, Aibileen Clark. Aibileen Clark is an African-American maid who has raised seventeen white children in her lifetime, including her recent and last “white baby” Mae Mobley. The book she writes with skeeter and the other African-American maid empowers her to stand up for justice. Aibileen is a great example of the earth mother as she not only she 17 “white baby” but she also taught them that color of skin does not matter, but kindness and love do. An earth mother is considerate and encourages the good things in life instead of the dark soul within. They put other people’s needs before their own despite of having their own personal problems. Like Leigh Anne, Aibileen have also risk her lives of teaching Mae Mobley about racial equality and civil rights. This is a risk as she is breaching the law which can cause her to lose her job and eventually face social penalties. This risk that she had taken was to prove that people were not born to be racist but is eventually taught through generation , "stop that moment from coming – and it come in every child's life – when they start to think that colored folks ain't as good

The story takes place in Mississippi, August 1962, where the main characters, Aibileen, Skeeter, and Minny all live and struggle with their own problems. Skeeter is an up and coming author/journalist who thanks the black people in the service industry and wants their stories to be told to others so that things may start getting better. Aibileen is a black maid who is trying to get over her son’s death while taking care of little Mae Mobley, her employer’s child; she always reminds that child how much she loves her even though she stated this “And I just didn’t feel so accepting anymore.” (Pg.3). Minny had demons to face too as a black maid: domestic abuse from her husband, being called a thief by the community and then fight to find work after that. Even though every one of these women are in danger for trying to make Mississippi better by writing their stories, they are still willing and fight to the end.

The treatment of black, female domestic servants living in Jackson, Mississippi illustrates the race intensity between the black and white community during the 1960's. Skeeter, a young journalist that comes from a wealthy, cotton plantation owned family has to write a novel of her choice for her job. She chooses to write about the black servants that work for her childhood friends. In order to this successfully, they must meet in secret because both blacks and whites that are against segregation during this time could be shunned or killed. The story is told from three alternating perspectives, so the protagonists are: Skeeter, Minny, & Aibileen. Those 3 are trying to change the world's perspective on black people by writing the book. Antagonist:

In Jackson, Mississippi, the abolishment of segregation occurred years before, although they still faced racial problems. Stores, libraries, and churches were segregated and colored workers and maids had rules such as: not being able to use the same bathroom as the white families they worked for. Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help, utilizes the character Skeeter Phelan to oppose these morals and to attempt to share the true values of society. Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, was the outcast compared to all of her other so called friends. Being tall with kinky, red hair, wasn’t considered as charming but Skeeter was much more sophisticated than the other women.

She goes against her friends beliefs, and crosses even Miss Hilly who believes strongly in segregation. Normal white people in Jackson, Mississippi would never imagine doing the things Skeeter does. Skeeter doesn’t only go against racial norms, but she also goes against what is normal for women in the 1960s. Skeeter tries to be independent, she wants the same opportunities that men have and doesn’t believe she needs a man to be a good woman. However, her mother strongly believes she needs a husband, and all of her friends fit into the “perfect” woman role.

Aibileen’s description of Jackson’s environment was important to understand how crowded and close the colored neighborhood was, small but many houses, many people, packed schools and busses, etc. In chapter 6, Aibileen says “He read this book called Invisible Man. When he done, he says he gone write down what it was like to be colored working for a white man in Mississippi," when talking to Skeeter. This shows us how colored men and women would feel like an “Invisible Man”, knowing this, you can understand the rest of the maid’s stories. In chapter 1, Hilly informs the bridge club, "A bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help.

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.

She decides she would like to write about how black help is treated in Mississippi. She contacts some of the black help around the town and at first people are reluctant to help her except for Abilene. Eventually Abilene convinces Minnie to help tell her story as well. When the rest of the black community decides to share their story everyone realizes dangerous this operation is because Skeeter is best friends with the most dominant woman in the village Miss Hilly. All of these women put their reputations on the line to get what they want.

the way black people were treated in the 1960’s. One of Miss Leefolt's friends, Miss Skeeter, is an aspiring writer that is hoping to get a job in New York. The editor wants her to write about something controversial, and she picks segregation. She interviews Minny and Aibileen, but they have to keep this very secret, or Minny and Aibileen could get arrested. Miss Skeeter leaves the satchel that she keeps her writing things in at Miss Hilly’s house, and Miss Hilly reads it.

(C)After watching The Help, I noticed it may have been an issue that a white woman wrote the book because she doesn’t really know what it feels like to be “the help”. (E) The movie, The Help illustrates this when Skeeter is very surprised by the things Aibileen and Minny are telling her. She didn’t know how bad it was to be a black maid and was shocked by some of the things she heard about their lives (“The Help”). (R)This explains how the perspective of a white woman could never be as accurate as the perspective of an actual maid. “The Help” have experienced so much, maybe more than they are telling Skeeter, and people will never get the full story from someone who hasn’t gone through the same pain as they have. (CS) After all, it may not

Throughout the sequence of events that surfaced during the climax of the film, it is prominently displayed that the relationship between white and black people were fortified. One of the first instances of such an occurrence is illustrated when a large group of black maids in Jackson came to Aibileen's house in order to share their experiences as maids with Skeeter. Beforehand, the women were apprehensive and hesitant to speak to the young author because they feared that she would expose them to the rest of the town- they weren’t able to trust her. However, after a KKK member murdered one of their own, they collectively decided that enough was enough. Specifically, the ladies were tired of the relentless racial prejudice and segregation that