Good Vs. Evil: Skeeter Phelan

The book , The Help by Kathryn Stockett, is about a women named Aibileen who is a black maid. She is taking care of her 17th white baby now. She works for a woman named Miss Leefolt. Aibileen has never disobeyed an order in her life and never intends to do so. Her friend Minny is the exact opposite. When she is around her boss, she has to hold herself back from sassing them all the time. Skeeter Phelan is different than the rest of the white ladies. She thinks that blacks aren’t all that bad. She decides to write a book about the lives of maids for white ladies. Otherwise known as the Help. She with the help of Aibileen and Minny hope to create a book that starts a revolution about what white people think about blacks.

“‘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 Help occurs during the segregation period during the year of 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi. The main character is Aibileen Clark, a 50-year-old African American maid spending most of her life raising white children ever since her teenage years. She works for Elizabeth Leefolt, a wealthy housewife, who is the best friend of the antagonist, Hilly Holbrook. Elizabeth has a child named Mae Mobley whom Aibileen is very close to. Aibileen’s best friend is Minny Jackson; she is a maid who works for Hilly Holbrook and her mother Missy Walters for nearly a decade. Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan is a young, white American woman, seeks a successful writing career after graduating from the University of Mississippi and returns to home, soon to find out her long-time maid, Constantine, supposedly quit working for her family; this was a great mystery for Skeeter because Constantine did not write to Skeeter explaining why she left. Skeeter found out Hilly Holbrook, Elizabeth Leefolt and their friends believe blacks “carry various diseases to the white people”. Hilly drafted a disease

The Help chronicles a recent college graduate named Skeeter, who secretly writes a book exposing the treatment of black maids by white affluent women. The story takes place in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, during the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. The death of Medgar Evers triggers racial tension and gives the maids of Jackson the courage to retell their personal stories of injustice endured over the years. The movie depicts the frustration of the maids with their female employers and what their lives were like cleaning, cooking, and raising their bosses’ children. The Help shines a light on the racial and social injustice of maids during the era of Jim Crow Laws, illustrating how white women of a privileged

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

Racism is a terrible thing and in this book it shows how it can affect someone's life and even thoughts. For example Tom Robinson is accused for beating and raping a young white women named Mayella Ewell.

The help is a movie about race, gender and class inequalities in Jackson Mississippi during the 1960’s. It is told from the point of view of a young writer named Skeeter. She was born into a middle-class family who’s servants and maids are called “The help” and are exclusively African American and treated as if they were diseased and below any white American. The maids did the cooking, cleaning and even raising white children as if they were their own. Skeeter recognized this as a problem and decided she wanted to write a book about the struggles of a black woman’s experience being in service to white women.

This summer, I decided to read "The Help" by Kathyn Stockett. "The Help" is a coming of age novel written in the perspectives of three different yet hardworking women living in Jackson Mississippi in the middle of the Civil Rights era. The novel's protagonists consist of Aibileen Clark, a shrewd maid, Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, an aspiring journalist, and Minny Jackson, a cheeky maid with a lot to say. Put these three women together and you've got a book stating the truth of what is it to be a black woman in Jackson Mississippi, working for a white woman. The bold women in this novel and their audacious personalities is just one of the made this book what it is. Living in a time when people were no more friendly to African Americans as they

The Help by Kathryn Stockett is set in the time period of the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi. During this time, slavery has ended but segregation was still happening every day. African American women, at the time, worked and cleaned for a white family households. Minny Jackson and Aibileen Clark are both maids for white families. During Minny and Aibileen's lives, as black maids, they are treated with disrespect and injustice by Hilly Holbrook and Elizabeth Leefolt, and are only treated with kindness by Cecilia Foote.

The help is a drama film produced in 2011 that highlights the relationship between African American maids and their employers in the days civil rights. The film reveals the perception that the maids had concerning their bosses (Ebert, 2011). The help presents a story on how two African American maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson, motivated a young white woman, "Skeeter", to publish a book on their story. The film reveals that the book that the young woman wrote became one of the best-selling books and transformed both her life and the life of her mother.

“‘Did you hear about the colored boy this morning? One they beat with a tire iron for accidentally using the white bathroom? …And my cousin Shinelle in Cauter County? They burn up her car cause she went down to the voting station.’” (Stockett 120) During the 1960’s racism and violence is prominent in southern states due to the Jim Crow laws. In the novel, The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, it depicts what life was like Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960’s. The novel is told through a group of maids telling their stories to a young writer, Skeeter Phelan. These maids, Aibileen and Minny, describe what it is like being African-American during this time period as they risk their lives sharing their struggles and hardships they go through on a daily basis due to the lack of equality in Mississippi.

Vy Le Mr. Williams Sociology 1101 22 July 2017 Sociological Concept in “The Help” Summary: The Help is written by Tate Taylor in 2011 which is adapted from Kathryn Stockett's novel. This film mainly talked about three women in Mississippi during 1960s : Aibileen Clark who is a black maid and works for Elizabeth family, Minny Jackson who is the brusque and outspoken maid, and Skeeter Phelan who decides to write the book about "the help”.

The Help takes place in Jackson, Mississippi during the 60's. Eugenia Phalen (aka Skeeter) graduated from Ole Miss and has gone back home in part to take care of her sick mother. In Skeeter's situation all of the servants are known as "the help", and the help are all African American. The female servants do the cooking and cleaning, however their primary task is to take care of children. Fifty year old Aibileen Clark is a servant of Skeeter's friend, Elizabeth Leefolt. Skeeter asks Aibileen to help her with her newly acquired job, answering questions from a cleaning column. However, the disappearance of Constantine Jefferson, who raised Skeeter , makes Skeeter come to the decision to write about the experiences of the black female servants.

I really enjoyed Kathryn Stocketts debut book, “The Help.” While taking place at the time of racial segregation and the Civil Rights movement, the book does not offer much for readers to relate to however, with the authors use of sensory details, one is still able to catch a sense for each and every emotion experienced. The book begins as Skeeter Phelan, a 22-year old graduate from Ole Miss comes home to her family’s cotton plantation and lands a job at the Jackson Journal writing “Miss Myrna,” a housekeeping column. With little to none experience in this field, she seeks help from the maid of her friend Hilly Holbrook. Skeeter and Aibileen start spending a lot of time together and it isn’t long before Skeeter realizes the mistreatment of

In Kathryn Stockett’s novel, The Help, the subject of racism and slavery portray the controversial segregation a person of colour faces during the 1960’s. Meanwhile, a young white woman, Skeeter, takes an interest in the plight of the black women; for the purpose of displaying the unjust treatment coloured women face around her. Skeeter not only loses all her friends but also loses the respect from the privileged white community around her. She writes these stories about the mistreatment, abuse, and heartbreak she witnesses while working with and listening to the stories that the people of colour had to