Segregation In The Help

When living in a world of cheerios, be a fruit loop. In The Help by Kathryn Stockett one white woman wants to help the black maids get their word out. To get their word out about the experiences they have had, Skeeter, a white writer at the time, secretly wrote a novel to portray how life was like during segregation. The Help by Kathryn Stockett is very accurate in the portrayal of what life was like during the Civil Rights Movement and segregation. The Help by Kathryn Stockett did a fantastic job in portraying what life was like to be white during the Civil Rights Movement and segregation, because of the emotion of the characters in the book. “You’re not going to college so your mama’s friends don’t have to use the same bathroom as the maid,” (pg 15). During the time of segregation so many whites just went with how the flow of society was running, and they didn’t try to change anything. The whites treated the blacks as if they were not human, and they thought of the blacks as being the second class of society. This shows an accuracy with the book The Help, because Miss Leefolt and her friends didn’t want to use the same bathroom as the maid, Aibileen. This is an important piece of evidence, because the whites wanted everything they did to be separate of the blacks, which is the way society ran at the time with separated bathrooms
Not only did Skeeter learn that standing up for what you believe in can have a good outcome, but Miss Hilly and Miss Leefolt also learned that you don’t have to be stuck living in a society that discriminates people for a feature they have such as skin color. The Help stresses the fact that everyone is equal and no man shall be higher than the other. The book also teaches us not to just settle for what society thinks, but rather to show us that it is okay to be a fruit loop in a world of