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How Does The Help Change The Whole World

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That one question. That one question that changes everything. That one question that changes your whole world. This is what happened in The Help by Kathryn Stockett. The Help takes place in the 1960’s in a very racist little town. Skeeter, a white privileged lady, speaks up and writes a book exposing racial injustices. She writes a book with the help of black maids to bring about change. Change begins with a whisper is shown as Celia Foote finds confidence in herself to accept her faults. Celia found a confidence in herself that she never knew she had. She had gone through many struggles growing up in Sugar Ditch and then thinking her husband didn’t love her. Celia felt like she wasn’t good enough because she wasn’t the perfect wife or because she couldn’t have children. Celia, at the end of the book, finally accepts that she can’t have children and that Johnny is ok with it. Minnie also helps her build her cooking skills, but also just helps her as a friend. When Johnny finally finds out about Minnie (and Celia knows he knows), Celia has a giant weight lifted off her shoulder. She finally changes the way she lives. She actually starts getting out of bed and accepts that nobody will ever call her …show more content…

This is a change I would like to see in our school like Skeeter wanted to change people actions and thoughts. School start time is so very early in the morning. People have early bird classes, early practices, early meetings, early everything. If the start time of school was pushed back you would have more time to fit in those activities without having to wake up at 5 am. Students focus better when they have more sleep and test scores would improve. Many students have so many activities at night, they can’t just go to bed earlier. If school started even just a half hour later, that would be a half hour more they could be alert and attentive in school. Changing the school start time would be a great change that should be

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