have ever thought that people may actually use this powerful energy of anger to reach the impossible. Kathryn Stockett is a normal American girl‚ who is known for her debut novel The Help. The Help is about African-American people working for white households in Jackson‚ Mississippi‚ during the 1960s. Stockett tries‚ in her novel‚ to tackle a subject that is uncomfortable for most Americans. The Help describes the relationship between African-American maids and the white people. This research paper
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The Help‚ a well written novel by Kathryn Stockett‚ depicts the lives of the help through their perspective and the perspective of Skeeter Phelan‚ aspiring writer who hopes for civil rights. The book is set in Jackson‚ Mississippi in 1962. It is set in a time and place where the civil rights issues were increasingly becoming worse. Skeeter Phelan comes from a wealthy family in the south and dreams to not become a housewife against her family’s and friends desires‚ but to be a writer. She catches
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towards the idea of racial harmony and African Americans were treated bitterly and relentlessly during this time. The author Kathryn Stockett wrote a novel in the perspective of mistreated black maids and one helping white woman during the time of the civil rights movement. Through the historical events‚ characters‚ and setting compiled into Kathryn Stockett’s novel‚ The Help‚ the theme of injustice and racial inferiority is portrayed. During the novel‚ the bus Aibileen is riding stops at a roadblock
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Dialects of The Help The Help is a book that depicts the lives of blacks in the 1960’s and what it was like to live in a world that was so harsh and unequal. During the 1960s blacks and whites were on unequal playing fields the blacks were seen as inferior and not as important. Within the novel the lives of two black maids are depicted and the struggles that they had to go through to live in an all white world. In the 1960s blacks and white were kept apart they were not allowed to go to the same
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The Help The richness and variety of language is part of what makes the book so appealing and intriguing. The main protagonists are presented with the southern accent ’Law have mercy’. Each character has been presented with their own stereotypical dialect which as a reader contributes to the realistic feel of the novel. The Novel is written mainly in first person from each of the 3 protagonists perspective. The story is told by 3 different people as Aibileen‚ Minnie and Skeeter take turns
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Stockett Helps Us See History’s Parallels Can fictional books subtly depict our own lives? The Help by Kathryn Stockett shows powerful impacts on society with its views of segregation and the power of propaganda. The novel reflects on our world today with the separation of people‚ and not just by the color of your skin. Pressures from society follow us around wherever we go‚ which is also an evident theme in The Help. The novel follows three main characters from Jackson‚ Mississippi: Aibileen‚ Minny
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Author‚ Kathryn Stockett wrote the book‚ The Help for many different reasons. She wanted to tell a story from a unique perspective since not many books are written in this manner. Another reason she chose to write about life through the eyes of the help is due to how passionately she felt this was needed to be shown to the world. Americans need to realize situations that happened in the past so that it will never happen again for future generations. She also wrote it to highlight the struggles and
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novel‚ The Help (By:Kathryn Stockett)‚ all the main characters take a risk to achieve a greater goal in the end. The maids and Miss. Skeeter (main characters) have this grand idea to make a change in their society. They write a book to tell how working for the white community during the time of the 1960’s is like. Throughout‚ these character’s journey they come to face with racism‚ justice‚ and many other conflicts and they have to work together in order to resolve this injustice. The Help exemplifies
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a model that is respected for qualities or achievements‚ and (2) anyone that in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness displays courage and the will for self-sacrifice. The heroes or heroines in The Help are the latter. The Help by Kathryn Stockett is a novel about black maids in Jackson‚ Mississippi in 1962. The black maids work with Skeeter Phelan‚ a young white woman‚ to write a tell-all book about what it’s like to work as a black maid in the white homes of the segregated
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we fall” (“Quote by Nelson Mandela”). Katherine Stockett’s novel‚ The Help‚ depicts the struggles of African-American maids living in the South in the 1960s through their experiences whilst working in prejudice white households. Skeeter‚ a young white woman‚ moves back to Jackson‚ Mississippi after getting her degree at Ole Miss. Skeeter wants to be a writer instead of a housewife like the rest of the women in her town. To help jumpstart her career‚ Skeeter decides to write a novel about the experiences
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