The Help Compare And Contrast

The Help by Kathryn Stockett takes place in Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s. Elizabeth Leefolt just had a daughter which she named Mae Mobley Leefolt. Throughout The Help, Miss Leefolt does not show any sort of compassion or love towards Mae Mobley. Aibileen, Miss Leefolt's maid, shows love to Mae Mobley or “Baby Girl” as Aibileen calls her. Aibileen even tries to boost Mae Mobley's self-esteem by telling her this famous quote “‘You is kind. You is smart. You is important’” Aibileen says that to Mae Mobley to make her feel happy showing her love. In The Help, Aibileen's account of the mental and physical abuse and neglect of Mae Mobley proves that the purest and most innocent individuals suffer the most abuse and neglect.

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.

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Aibileen is a colored woman in The Help who is selfless by the way she takes care of Mae Mobley who is the daughter of Elizabeth leefolt, and how she teaches mae mobley to be self loving, Aibileen has changed since her son Treelore’s death and finds that she cannot easily accept the way colored people are treated and is now set on the right path to do the right thing for society by showing how colored people are treated. Even after losing everything Aibileen remains selfless, caring, and committed to doing the right thing.

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“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.

In the book The Help by Kathryn Stockett main character Skeeter Phelan works with the help, who work for her friends and associates all over town, in secret to compile a book of stories, benign and riddled with malice, about their employers. The author uses contrasting locations such as the plantation owned and inhabited by Skeeter and her family and Aibileen's house across the bridge in the colored part of town to show how truly different these two characters are, and that despite their differences in status, upbringing, and financial state, they still come together to bring to light the injustices suffered by maids, and the need for civil change.

The most compelling character of this novel was Aibileen, an African-American maid working her days taking care of precious Mae Mobley Leefolt and the Leefolt’s house. She cooked and cleaned and earned little to no pay while doing so. Aibileen faced many conflicts throughout this book such as working through her son, Treelore’s death as well as raising a white two year old in a strict white woman’s house. She taught this girl to learn to love herself because her own mother was not. “Gave Mae Mobley one more hug, whisper, ‘You a smart girl. You a good girl.’” (Stockett 111) The biggest conflict Aibileen faced, however, was sitting down everyday and being interviewed by Skeeter Phelan who was a privileged white girl trying to make it as a writer. Skeeter asked Aibileen questions about what it is like to work as a maid, the challenges she faced daily, and trying to overcome the segregation gap in Jackson, Mississippi. As hard as it was, Aibileen answered all of these questions honestly in attempts to help Skeeter publish a book about working as a black woman during that time. Aibileen was developed well by the author because she showed the relationships she developed with white characters such as Skeeter and Mae Mobley. During that day and age, a black woman working together with a white woman was unheard of. Throughout The Help, Aibileen was going against the norm of society to try and find peace in this splintered town which made

Aibileen, a black maid working for Elizabeth Leefolt, has taken care of eighteen white babies and watched them grow from innocent children into children influenced by their parents beliefs of racism. When Skeeter is talking to Elaine Stein, she mentions that the help loves the children and the children love the help, but before they know it, the children are grown and become the employers of their once loved help. Aibileen is empowered to contribute to the novel because of her extreme love for Mae Mobley. Aibileen is able to empathize with Mae Mobley because neither Aibileen nor Mae Mobley fit in with society’s standards. Throughout the novel, Aibileen teaches Mae Mobley lessons of self-love and racism and prejudice. At first, Aibileen denies Skeeter’s proposal into writing the book. However, once the Home Health Sanitation Initiative is set into place and Aibileen hears all of the terrible things Miss Hilly has to say about blacks, such as the diseases the

aibileen is a kind hearted human. she overlooks the colour of skin and wants change for the better. she believes that all blacks and all whites should be treated the same. aibileen is an open minded person and shows that you dont have to be a specific race or colour to love and be loved. aibileens roll in the help is to show the readers that she doesnt pay attention to skin colour and that she looks at peoples actions and behavior to determine if their good or bad. aibileen is alone in this world so it plays a big factor of how she acts. she takes care of mae mobley like shes her own. aiblieen is also willing to help miss. skeeter to write a book.

Throughout the book The Help, written by Kathryn Stockett, the author characterizes each person in the book with different traits and personalities. Stockett especially shows this in one of the main characters, Aibileen Clark. The author manages to paint Aibileen with a quiet grace and an aura of wisdom about her. This is shown throughout the book in many different ways, such as when Aibileen has the grace to turn the other cheek when the white women are degrading their help in front of her. Both the movie and the book are able to show throughout the story, Aibileen demonstrates characteristics such as grace, wisdom, and kindness.

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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 head 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 as she grew up with in house help. In order to keep her job she goes to Aibileen, her friend Elizabeth Leefolt’s housekeeper. At this point in her life, Aibileen is just trying to get by. She writes out her prayers on a daily basis as a way to clear her mind since she is fairly reserved on the outside. On the contrary, Aibileen’s friend Minny is also a housekeeper, but she has a rather sharp tongue which doesn’t usually work in her favor. Consequently, she is trying to find a new employer, but is having trouble since there is a bit of discord between her and the most influential socialite in Jackson, Mississippi.

Aibileen was being treated like as if she wasn’t a human, because she wasn’t allowed to use the same bathroom in the house that she cleans and takes care of every singe day, but instead was built her own separate bathroom. She was treated bad and was also paid badly. The money she was being paid is not even enough for her to put together a household and to pay bills. While all this was going on, she found a way to fight back by helping a young girl write a book that exposes how “The Helps” were being treated in the households they take care of.