Compare And Contrast The Help And Go Set A Crossman

Both Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, and Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman contain characters with similar opinions on black slaves, politics, and women’s rights in the south. These women show courage when they stand up for what they think is right and are stubborn when it comes to proving their point to others. In Go Set a Watchman, Jean Louise leave her hometown of Maycomb to go to college in New York and learn about the world outside of her little town. In The Help, Skeeter begins her career as a writer and yearns to show her small town of Jackson, Mississippi how the black maids play a crucial role in the southern elite lives. Skeeter and Jean Louise have similar views on the south at this time and neither of them sit idly by and ignore what's going on. The speak up and out about how they feel and what they believe needs to happen to catch their towns up to modern time. Jean Louise grew up in the small town of Maycomb county, with her brother Jem, her father Atticus, and her maid Calpurnia.
This town meeting talks about the dangers of black people in the community and these men are threatened by anyone who isn't white. When Jean Louise finds out that both Atticus and Henry are attending these meetings, she loses her temper with both of them. In Jean Louis’ eyes, Atticus can do no wrong. When she was a young girl, he defended a black man in court during a rape trial, winning acquittal. Now, knowing he attends these meetings she questions her idolizations of him and considers him a racist. After her experience with the rape trial, and learning the North’s view on black people, she has a different opinion than just about every citizen in Maycomb. In New York she learned to live a life without any maid looking after her and that most people up there didn't rely on maids to raise their children or their families, unlike most southern towns at the