The Dialects Of The Help By Katherine Stockett

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 school and they were not allowed to go in the same bathroom. Each color had there own bathroom and school, within the school systems many black children were not able to attend for long periods of time because they would have to stop and start working to help support their families. Even the children that were able to go to school for a long period of time were seen not to be at the
Due to the fact that the average black American in the 1960s was slightly uneducated Katherine Stockett depicted the characters that she based off of the black maids that she had meet in her lifetime with a slightly more uneducated sound to them when they were talking.
Many people believe that the way that Katherine Stockett depicted the two main maids within the novel The Help was in a way racist. Many people believe that the way she made them out to be was racist and unfair. That she would not know how they talked and many of them were more educated and able to pick up the language that the average white person was using in that time. In my opinion Katherine Stcokett depicted the maids in a realistic way that was able to show the divide within the country at the time. With the small amount of use grammatical errors and language errors it showed that the people of the 1960s were truly separated in a way that many thought would never get better. If in the book she changed the way that the characters spoke