Kathryn Stockett Research Paper

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.

Kate Kimball is an award-winning fiction author who has worked hard to be in the position she is in now. Despite currently struggling with her health, she has continued to peruse her English PhD in Creative Writing here at Florida State University. Born in beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah Kimball is surprised to find herself over 2,000 miles away now studying in the sunshine state. FSU offers one of the top creative writing programs that currently is ranked top 5 in the nation according to The Atlantic Monthly. Kimball was excited to be accepted into the accredited program after earning her bachelor’s from the University of Utah and masters at Virginia Tech. Kimball has always loved writing and says, “Creative writing allows you to write about

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.

The Help, A novel written by American author, Kathryn Stockett in 2009 tells the story of black maids working in white home. Setting in Jackson, Mississippi during 1960s, the society is obviously segregated into two groups, whites and blacks. Although there is some variety in economic and social class, race is the first determinant of a person's place and whether or not having right to access to educational, occupational, and economic opportunity. Racial tensions are high because white community members employ violence and coercion to possess the Civil Rights Movement from sweeping into their Mississippi town. The unfair practices of post-colonization make the lives of the town's black members so difficult.

Del Kathryn Barton (born 11 December 1972) is an Australian artist, who won the 2008 and 2013 Archibald Prizes. Barton studied at the College of Fine Arts of the University of New South Wales. She then graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1993. Later on in her life she employed for a college and became a lecturer. But before she won the Archibald Prize she became famous for painting, Barton was well known for erotic charged ink and watercolour pieces.

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In The Help, Kathryn Stockett presents the view that racism is often used in societies as a way to profit off an oppressed culture, mostly when associated with social classes. Throughout the novel, there are many events where prejudice is present, as the colored maids are always being treated with disrespect and are never thanked for their assistance in households. One of the main, and most obvious, issues in the book is the treatment of people based on their skin tone, and this being prevalent in the story allows for the reader to understand the culture of African Americans during the 1960’s in the southern United States. First, the theme’s presence in the novel is represented when Hilly introduces her bathroom initiative to Miss Leefolt,

Kathryn Stockett's The Help is a novel set in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi and follows the lives of two black maids, Minny and Aibileen, and a privileged young white woman, Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan. Together these three women set out to compile a book explaining how it is to work as a black maid in Jackson. While some critics argue The Help perpetuates black stereotypes and confines black women into "Mammy" roles, the novel actually promotes discussion of racial issues faced in the 1960 by black maids in a realistic manner without confining black women to a racist role.

The early 1960’s was an alarming time period in which many social issues occurred. The Help and Hidden Figures both evolve around the struggles that women, particularly women of color, faced during the 1960’s. Both books portray gender inequality, in addition to displaying segregation of African Americans and other colored folks. The book discussed topics such as gender inequality which has affected women throughout the ages, and while the differences have patched up, women are still being affected today. In the 1960s, women were not allowed to apply for most jobs as they were considered of lesser value than men. Women also weren’t allowed human rights, such as voting. Problems were further driven by segregation, which is another commonality in these two books. Segregation affects people mainly of color and played a major role in the history of America. African American people were treated unfairly, and people did their best to have no relations with them. There were separate bathrooms, separate schools, and separate stores for those people who were of African American heritage. The Help, written by Kathryn Stockett in 2009, is a fictional story about African Americans working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the early 1960s. The author makes use of shifting viewpoints and dialogue of the characters and changes vantage point of the story’s events by telling each chapter from a different character's point of view. The author also uses first person point of

After the completion of this project, I came to the conclusion that I enjoyed researching about Kathryn Stockett and the events during the Civil Rights Movement. I especially thought it was very interesting how Stockett wrote The Help over something real that happened in her life. When she was growing up in the south, she too had colored help and a family that required them to use a separate bathroom facility. Using a personal experience made the story more realistic and relatable to audiences who grew up or were aware of the events happening during the 1960s. I also enjoyed the creative aspect of the project, getting to decorate using fun stickers and scrapbook paper. I love getting to show my artistic side.

The novel The Help was written by Kathryn Stockett in 2009. It reveals the struggle and changes that the black maids in the early 60’s went through and their fight for equality. The Help tells a story of three women, one white and two black, and the racial divide between the southern households of Jackson, Mississippi and their black maids. Skeeter, the white college graduate, seeks the truth about how the maids were treated and to start a secret project with the maids where the maids’ voices will be heard.

Society has changed and evolved throughout time. Perhaps one of the most significant changed in contemporary American society is the treatment towards African Americans. “The Help” a feature film directed by Tate Taylor is based on the non-fictional novel “The Help” written by author Kathryn Sockett. The feature film explores the life of African American maids of Jackson Mississippi, in the early 1960’s. The 1960’s displayed all African Americans to being left out of the “American dream” through neglect and racism. African Americans faced prejudice and discrimination in almost every aspect of their life, from jobs to housing and even their education. They were denied the right to sit at the same lunch counter or use the same public rest

The title of this book is called The Help by Kathryn Stockett. The main characters in the story are two maids named Aibileen and Minny. These two are important to the story taking on the roles of the help. Aibileen is a 52 year old maid who has been taking care of other people’s children since she was a teenager. A few years prior to the book’s beginning, Aibileen’s son, Treelore, died. Her recent employer’s child she takes care of and her love for her son is what convinced her to take the step to have her experiences published even though she was skeptic. Minny is a sassy maid who is known for talking back to her employers. She is very cautious about who she lets in her life because of her home life. She had her concerns about the book being published as well. The protagonist in the story is named Eugenia AKA “Skeeter”. Skeeter is a 22 year old college graduate who wants nothing more than to be a writer. Her writing career kicks off because she published an anonymous book featuring her point of view on how the white people act around the help and the experiences of African-American maids with their white employers. The significance of the time period being in the 1960’s is that during this time period, there was a lot of segregation still going on. It was symbolic that Skeeter treated the maids like human beings due to the high amount of discrimination in this time period. This was the era in which Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. It also was the

During the 1960s, in Jacksonville, Mississippi, the movie “The Help” depicts a time when racial segregation was culturally acceptable and blacks were viewed as an inferior race. The focus of the movie is the life of the “colored help”, the details of their everyday work environment, and the impact on their white employer’s lives. The help is represented as community of black women, who work as maids ultimately raising the children of their upper class white employers. The irony of this is the same children they are looking after are the same children who will grow up to be like the white community, discriminating against the same people who raised them. When Miss Skeeter, an aspiring writer, approaches Aibileen, a black maid, to write a book discussing her work environment (anonymously), this opens the door for other maids to come forward and telling their story as “the help”.

“Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But know one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it” (Kathryn Stockett, The Help 123). The Help is about a young, white woman named Skeeter, who decided to write a book showing the side no one has examined before, the black help in Mississippi and their feelings about their work. Previously stated, Margaret Mitchell covered the story of a black maid working for a white family, but never mentioned how the maid felt about it. Skeeter had the eccentric idea and the desire to make it happen, but now all she needed was a few maids willing to risk their safety by telling their stories of how white women treat them at work. One older maid, Aibileen, agrees to tell her story, but Skeeter needed more than one maid, so Aibileen asked her best friend Minny if she would help out. At first Minny was hesitant, “Ain’t no way I’m gonna do something crazy as that” (152) she states. But Minny had to really ponder her decision. In Kathryn Stockett’s, The Help, Minny struggles with an internal conflict on if and how she should share her story without causing too much trouble.