The Help By Kathryn Stockett

Originally a book written by Kathryn Stockett, The Help, was transformed into a film in 2011, directed by Tate Taylor. Taking place in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, the perspective of (mainly) two middle-aged ‘negro’ maids (Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson) were recorded in hopes of setting truth free. Miss Eugenia (“Skeeter”) Phelan, hopeful to be a journalist, claimed that black lives were not as pleasant as portrayed, therefore she desired to reveal the truth behind their lives through a book of interviews. The film, The Help, while not going in depth is quite historically accurate through the depiction of social classes, racial segregation, the Jim Crow laws, and the Civil Rights Movement (dealing with racism, violence, and homicide).

“The Help” by Kathryn Stockett is a personal memoir written in the perspective of 20 year old graduate Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan. This story begins with Skeeter finishing school and coming home to a house with her maid, Constantine Jefferson, no where to be found. She begins questioning her mother about her whereabouts, with no luck. She begins to understand the prejudice that comes with being black in the day and age of 1962, with hopes of getting these women to tell their sides of the story she sets out on recruiting Aibileen.

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

It is an American period drama film which is based on a novel written by the American novelist Kathryn Stockett. The movie was directed by Tate Taylor. The movie was released in year 2011, and shown in theaters all over the world. The film is about a young white woman named Skeeter, and her relationship with Aibileen and Minny, who are two black maids during the Civil Rights era in 1963. Aibileen and Minny are the maids of Skeeter’s two friends Hilly and Leefolt. Skeeter seeks help from both maids to write a book called “The Help”, which exposes racism that black maids in Jackson Mississippi deal with from the white families they work for. The movie tries to give its audience a glimpse of the segregated life of Black women working as maids for rich White families in

The Help by Kathryn Stockett, is a book set in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, told by three different women: Abilene, Minny and Skeeter, in each of their perspectives. Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan is a graduate student whose dream is to become a writer, but when she tries for a position at the local newspaper, she is given the job of writing housekeeping tips.

“‘Did you know that when you were a girl, growing up, that one day you’d be a maid?” “Yes ma’am. Yes I did’”(Stockett 169). The Help by Kathryn Stockett is a story about Aibileen Clark, a black housemaid, and Eugenia, “Skeeter” Phelan, coming together to write a novel about how black maids are treated- good and bad- by their white employers in their hometown of Jackson, Mississippi. Aibileen shows a lot of change throughout the story, evolving from reserved, to progressive, and finally, to content.

Based off of Kathryn Stockett’s 2009 novel, The Help is a movie told from an African American’s point of view during the early 1960’s in Jackson, Mississippi. The three main characters include, Aibileen Clark, Minny Jackson, and Eugenia (Skeeter) Phelan. Skeeter is a young writer who has recently returned from the University of Mississippi. She has been advised by the Elaine Stein, who is the editor at Harper & Row, to write about a topic she is passionate about, that way she can continue her dream of becoming a serious writer. In addition, Skeeter accepts a writing job down at the Jackson Journal where she writes a housekeeping column. Ironically, she has no housekeeping experience

“The Help, a book about race and class relations in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s,” [a time where many African Americans were fighting for equal rights.] At that time African-American women had few options but to labor as exploited domestics for wealthy white families [to be able to get food and shelter for their families”] (Site, World Socialist Web. "The Help). Kathryn Stockett takes a bold step as a white woman with no experience as a maid to have two narrators in her book as African Americans who tell their perspective of what it is like to live as maids. The theme, tone, literary devices, and how she develops the stories of African American maids is part of what makes this book so intriguing.

The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, is a historic novel set in the early 1960’s in Jackson, Mississippi. This story is told from the perspective of two black maids, Aibileen and Minny, and a white southern girl, Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan. It focuses in on the black maids, their lives, and their work environment. This book digs into the details of how “the help” were treated even after the civil war had ended. The maids in this novel decide to work together with Skeeter to show all of America exactly how Jackson treats their “help”. The Help shows how black people were treated after the civil war, good and bad, and the views of the maids during this time about this issue all through a book within a book.

The Help Is a film set in the 1960’s regarding the lives of African American house slaves in Jackson, Mississippi. The three main characters in the film; Skeeter, Aibileen, and Minny act against the unfair treatment the receive being housemaids. A white woman named Skeeter Phelan is a member of the Junior League along with other wealthy women in her neighborhood. Skeeter works for the local newspaper and writes articles concerning mainly cleaning tips.

The Help (2011), based on Kathryn Stockett’s novel of the same name, follows the stories of Skeeter Phelan, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson in 1960s’ Mississippi. These women come together to write a book from the perspective of the “help”, a group of African American women who are mistreated by the white families they work for. I chose this movie for its strong female protagonist and the brave women who risked their lives by letting their voices be heard.

The Help by Kathryn Stockett is one of the most marvelous novels capturing the zeitgeist of the 1960’s written in recent times: being published February 10, 2009. This novel not only described the situation between African-American maids and their employers, but encapsulated the thoughts and sentiments of the people that characterized the decade of the 60’s. These thoughts were depicted well because the author, Kathryn Stockett, grew up in Jackson, Mississippi; the very town that The Help is set in. She is comparable to the character of Skeeter, because Stockett was a young writer living in the South with aspirations of becoming an eminent journalist. They also witnessed firsthand the oppression and

The Help is a 2011 American period drama film written and directed by Tate Taylor, based on Kathryn Stockett 's 2009. “The film is about a young white woman, Eugenia Phelan, and her relationship with two black maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson, during the Civil Rights era in 1963 Jackson, Mississippi. Eugenia is a journalist who decides to write a book from the point of view of the maids, exposing the racism they are faced with as they work for white families.” (The Help, 2015) The film stars Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O 'Reilly, Chris Lowell, Sissy Spacek. The Help was produced by DreamWorks Pictures and was released by Touchstone Pictures, the film opened to positive reviews and became a success with a worldwide box office gross of $216 million. The Help has received four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Actress for Viola Davis, and Best Supporting Actress for Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer, with the latter winning the award. The film also won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Pictures.

“Help people even when you know they can’t help you back”.  The Help written by american  author  Kathryn Stockett was published in the early 2000’s.  Set in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, Stockett’s first novel is narrated by three women: Aibileen and Minny are both black maids working for ladies from the cream of white society, while Miss Skeeter is the 23-year-old daughter of one of those pillars of the community. Aibileen has raised 17 white children, but her own son has been recently killed in an accident at a lumber yard; Minny is forever losing jobs because she talks back to her employers; and Miss Skeeter, so called because she looked like a mosquito when she was born, is ungainly