Kathryn Lasky

This summer, I decided to read "The Help" by Kathyn Stockett. "The Help" is a coming of age novel written in the perspectives of three different yet hardworking women living in Jackson Mississippi in the middle of the Civil Rights era. The novel's protagonists consist of Aibileen Clark, a shrewd maid, Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, an aspiring journalist, and Minny Jackson, a cheeky maid with a lot to say. Put these three women together and you've got a book stating the truth of what is it to be a black

The Help Character Analysis “‘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

The Help is a 2011 movie based on the book that was published in 2009. The entire movie is set in the early 1960s during the civil rights era. This movie looks into the lives of African American maids during this time period, seeing what they experienced and endured on a day to day basis. Due to the movie being set in the 1960s , The Help bares multiple social problems that can be found today. The most profound social problem depicted throughout the movie is racism. Female inequality is also a social

because it’s possible and people have reason why it should be restored: black people face police brutality, #blacklivesmatter will always be trending. When the south was still segregated were they right about being separated but equal. The Help by Kathryn Stockett tells the story of Skeeter a writer, Minny a colored maid who can’t keep a job, and Abilene a maid who has been taking care of children and their families since she was a teen. The year is 1962 and theses women decided to write a book that

The film The Help, directed by Tate Taylor, is a direct look into the lives of African American maids and the scrutiny they had to bear through their personal and professional lives. The film takes place in Mississippi, during the early sixties. At the time, racism was quite prevalent and more socially accepted by many people. This high sense of ethnocentrism was found across the United States, especially in the south. The women in the film, are depicted in this time where they are targeted, abused

The Help a film released in 2011 is based in the 1960’s during the civil rights movements. A young white woman raised by a black maid is a writer seeking to become an honest published journalist. The publishers she is working for offered her the chance to write anything she wanted, and when she proposes to write about the social injustices that black men and women are going through the writing company did not oppose the idea, but doubted that she will be able to complete her task. Along the way,

The Help is a fictional novel published in 2009 by Kathryn Stockett. Based in the 1960s, the book follows a young woman named, Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan. After graduating from college, Skeeter comes home to find that the maid she grew up with, Constantine, has quit. While thinking about Constantine,and others, life as the help, it inspires her to want to tell the truth about the help. However, it is hard for Skeeter to recruit the help of any maid. Eventually, Skeeter is able to gain the trust of

The Hurt Locker, a movie which depicts the the War in Iraq, looks at the many different aspects of war. The soldiers in this movie have to endure many severe conditions such as the possibility of dying on the spot because of an IED or trying to diffuse a bomb. Even though the mission is to win in a war, these fighters are still human beings. The soldiers look out for their own comrades, but also want to protect the Iraqis they have befriended. However, there were times when both the Iraqis and even

The title of the movie selected by the group was “The Help”. The Help” is a movie released in August 2011. The movie explores the unequal treatment suffered by the maids at the hands of their white, middle class oppressors. During this era in the south laws was in effect which constricted the ability of the maids and their sympathizers to raise awareness of the social inequalities which were, and still are in several areas, culturally acceptable. “The Help” depicts the issues of cultural inequalities

refer to the African American men, women, and children that worked as maids, gardeners, and mainly sedentary positions in white people's homes. The book the Help by Kathryn Stockett centers around the idea of how these people are treated solely based off of race. In many instances there was a great deal of injustice. In The Help, by Kathryn Stockett portrays Skeeter as a mouthpiece for the black community, and women alike, to highlight the injustices of society, specifically in the black maid service