Kathryn Bigelow

The Help: a Timeless Timepiece 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

The Help is Kathryn Stockett first novel, published in 2009 by G.P Putman’s Sons 2009. It has spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. The main themes of the book include racial segregation, a male dominated society and social hierarchy. What makes this book a truly scintillating one is the grave humor and imagery used to highlight the condition of Black maids in the 1960’s in America. The book is narrated by three very different women; Minny, a black maid unable to keep

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. Skeeter Phelan breaks away from the traditional

“They say it’s like true love, good help. You only get one in a lifetime,” (Stockett, 437). The Help is an enlightening book in which Kathryn Stockett talks about the things others are scared to approach. This is a story about racism, segregation, risk, and violence, specifically between the help and their employers, in Jackson, Mississippi around the time of Martin Luther King Jr. This touching book was turned into a movie in order to reach an even larger number of people. From the protective

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

quite a few differences that I noticed. It may only have a Lexile of 730, but that does not reflect the extreme measures this story goes to tell an amazing tale of bravery and strength that nothing else can rival. However, the author of The Help, Kathryn Stockett, and the director of the movie, Tate Taylor, knew what they were

Assignment 3 A passage can be found at the beginning, middle, and end of The Help by Kathryn Stockett that shows great examples of tone, diction, and syntax. “Miss Skeeter look real confused. ‘The home… the what?’ ‘A Bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help… Miss Skeeter, she frowning at Miss Hilly. She set her cards down face up and say real matter-of-fact, ‘Maybe we ought to just build you a bathroom outside, Hilly” (9). This early in the book, we have

Kathryn Stockett, the author of The Help, highlights women trying to fill the stereotypical roles of housewives in the early 1960s and how segregation brought tension to a small group of women. Stockett sets up the story to be told from the perspective of two colored maids and one white woman. Through the colored maids, she details the daily lives of the different women they work for. For example, when Aibileen begins describing the household she works for, she emphasizes how bad Miss Leefolt is

Kathryn Stockett’s novel The Help reveals that it is important to speak up for what is right even though it goes against social conventions. On the call with Miss Stein, Miss Skeeter states the reason that she decides to write a book about the maids-- “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 no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it”(Stockett, 106). This quotation shows Miss Skeeter’s

The color of one's skin does not define them; nor does it give people the power to define others. Kathryn Stockett's novel, "The Help" is an eye-opening and awe-inspiring story about coloured women speaking their truth. The truth is spoken through Skeeter, a white woman who believes that change is needed in Jackson, Missippi. After hearing about Aibileen's late son's idea about writing a book of what it's like to work for the white men, Skeeter asks if she could write a story about the help. A dozen