Epilogue To The Help

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The Help is about a young white woman, Skeeter Phelan, trying to bring attention to the reality that black women, aka “the help” face daily. The movie is set in Jackson, Mississippi at the height of legal segregation and racial tension. The movie takes a historical issue and applies humor in order to appeal to larger audiences. The Help accurately depicts the white supremacy of the segregated South, but is historically inaccurate in its portrayal of characters, mood, and overall unrealistic appeal of the 1960s United States.

Overall the book was a good read and touched on some various topics that are discussed in our class.

In the book, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, the main theme throughout the book is racial prejudice. The book is about a privileged 22 year old girl whose name was Skeeter. She dream was to become a writer so she began to write stories of black maids working in white family homes. All her life she has been told what to believe in and what to think about certain things, but while writing these stories she realized she was able to think for herself. Skeeter was different from the other white girls. She kind of became an outcast among her friends and her community because of the rules she was breaking. Skeeter only wanted to become a writer, but she hoped that the book she wrote would make people understand that there is not much of a

The novel, “The Help”, by Kathryn Stockett, focuses on the social issue of segregation in the United States, specifically in the south. Stockett demonstrates the issue of racial segregation between blacks and whites in the 1960’s by applying allusions, and point of view.

I think that this work is a very well put together book. Even though In the earlier questions I make it sound like a ten on ten this book is not. I rate this book a 9/10 for the soul reason that it was on a very directed path and you could the events that were going to happen before they did by just reading the book. Even the twist that the author put in were not that book which made some of the book predictable and who really wants a book in which they know everything that is going to happen.

I, personally, loved the author's writing, although I did not really understand why she structured the book like so. With each chapter changing different perspectives and stories, it was kind of hard to remember which chapter went with another considering the chapters where out of order. With each story, I was a little annoyed that they just suddenly ended at the end of the chapter. It made me want to read more and more trying to find the next chapter that went with that person's story. It was also kind of difficult to connect the stories. Other than that, she did a marvelous job grabbing my attention. I loved the analogies that she included in the stories. For example, on page 216- 217, one of the mothers told her daughter about a turtle that eats her tears and then creates birds that laugh

I would definitely recommend this book to a fellow student. If I had to rate this book from one to five stars, one being terrible, and 5 being It was amazing, I would give it 4 stars. The reason I would give this book 4 stars is because there are some parts of the story that aren’t explained, such as why the ships did not come back from England with supplies. I also give it a 4 star because it is not the most difficult book to read and it is not very challenging to read. This book can definitely compare to other books of it’s size, it has excellent word choice , when the author describes something, she uses great word choice to describe it. This quote from the book is a prime example of the detail portrayed in this novel, “ Each afternoon the wind came whistling in from the Sound a little earlier. Low, chilling fog lasted a little longer each morning.” This book is definitely a book that explains the colonists travels and hardships of trying to settle

“What, you’d kick me out [of the junior league committee]? For disagreeing with you?’’ (Stockett, 10) says Skeeter Phelan, in response to Hilly Holbrook. This quote shows the attitude of a young woman who was confident enough to stand up to the city bully. Hilly Holbrook was a powerful character in this novel because of her thirst for leadership, guaranteed potential, and attention. She was demanding with her words and made it very clear to the neighboring residents of Jackson, Mississippi that she owned the town like a queen. The women of Jackson were too afraid to stand up for themselves like Skeeter achieved against her. Hilly often claims her position of power with her philosophy of ‘doing anything to protect the town’

Citation: “What makes you think colored people need your help? Why you even care about this? You white.” (Page 191)

So far I have found this book really easy to read and understand. I like how melinda tells the story in her own way, she knows how to tell a story I like it. I never really read any books by Laurie Halse Anderson, this is my first book i read that she wrote, but I think that she is actually a pretty good writer. But anyways melinda is a very independent person. She can be sarcastic and funny at times, but she can also be deep and dark at times also. But yeah so far i guess i like the book. We are so close to finishing it. I liked all the terms, they were interesting, they made me wanna keep reading for some reason even though i'm not into this kinda stuff.

Throughout the last week I have found myself evaluating the conflicts between the groups, the ask and the answer, Todd and the things he has done, and Todd and Viola. This book is very intriguing and interesting to me and I look forward to starting the next book in the series after I finish The Ask and the Answer. I would give myself a 9 out of 10 on this journal because I included all of my quotes and I incorporated all of the conflicts that occurred during this

One aspect that stood out to me was dialogue. Dialogue is found at the start of the scene where Skeeter is finalising the book with the maids that helped to publish The Help, (Aibileen and Minnie), they said “ So you just send it off then we wait” to which Skeeter replies “Well i still have one story left to type up but other than that were good” which the maids say “Which one you got left” , “Uhh, Mine” Skeeter replies. This is later taken to Skeeter telling

Feminist theory is a term that embraces a wide variety of approaches to the questions of a women’s place and power in culture and society. Two of the important practices in feminist critique are raising awareness of the ways in which women are oppressed, demonized, or marginalized, and discovering motifs of female awakenings. The Help is a story about how black females “helped” white women become “progressive” in the 1960’s. In my opinion, “The Help” I must admit that it exposes some of our deepest racial, gender, and class wounds as individuals and social groups, and that the story behind the story is a call to respect our wounds and mutual wounding so that healing may have a chance to begin and bring social

The real mothers in The Help were obviously the maids. They basically raise the children since birth. They do all the back work. They feed the children, bathe the children, potty train them. They do all the things biological mothers should be doing. Between the arguments of the Jackson housewives and the snide comments exchanged at the bridge table, the book only shows tender moments occurring between the maids and the children who they look after. Despite their love for the children, they often to grow up to be just like their mothers, the maids say: overtly racist, demeaning, and smug towards the