“The Help”. The Movie The Help By Tate Taylor On The Importance

The Help has a very important and relevant plot. Skeeter Phelan, a strong-headed young woman who sees the reality of racism the black maids face in her town of Jackson, Mississippi, decides to write a novel exposing what it is like to be working as a coloured woman tending to white families. After much effort, she convinces a friend’s ‘help,’ Aibileen Clark, to share her stories and recruit other Jackson maids to tell theirs. Through struggle and abuse, Minny Jackson continues to work as a maid to Celia Foote who is a slightly off-her-rocker, but well-meaning woman. Skeeter is involved in an on-again-off-again relationship with a Senator’s son, Stuart Whitworth, until he finally gives up trying for her when she admits to him her secret. Finally Miss Hilly, the town’s self-appointed queen, rules the racism with an iron fist and tries her hardest to sabotage Skeeter’s project. This book fits the theme

The Help is a novel about the Mississippi in the 1960s and the radical social changes happening. The book originates from the perspective of two black maids that work for different white working class families and one white lady who loathes the segregation she sees. Amid the 1960s the south was experiencing its Civil Rights Movement that needed to give black southerners equivalent rights as white southerners. This brought on noteworthy measures of roughness and bias towards blacks, northerners and any individual who wasn't a white southerner.

The Help chronicles a recent college graduate named Skeeter, who secretly writes a book exposing the treatment of black maids by white affluent women. The story takes place in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, during the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. The death of Medgar Evers triggers racial tension and gives the maids of Jackson the courage to retell their personal stories of injustice endured over the years. The movie depicts the frustration of the maids with their female employers and what their lives were like cleaning, cooking, and raising their bosses’ children. The Help shines a light on the racial and social injustice of maids during the era of Jim Crow Laws, illustrating how white women of a privileged

The Help, set in Jackson, Mississippi, features Skeeter, a young adult girl fresh out of college, who faces discrimination as well. However, her older age also brings her a new level of respect and understanding of the world around her that Scout lacks. Scout and Skeeter are both pro-equality for boys and girls regardless of age and races regardless of skin color- and they’re both faced directly and indirectly with all sorts of discrimination.

The help is a drama film produced in 2011 that highlights the relationship between African American maids and their employers in the days civil rights. The film reveals the perception that the maids had concerning their bosses (Ebert, 2011). The help presents a story on how two African American maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson, motivated a young white woman, "Skeeter", to publish a book on their story. The film reveals that the book that the young woman wrote became one of the best-selling books and transformed both her life and the life of her mother.

Throughout the film The Help, it is apparent that during the year 1961, the opinions and views of white women in Jackson, Mississippi vary. The Help was originally a novel written by Kathryn Stockett in 2009, before being transferred into a movie, which was directed by Tate Taylor. The story follows the lives of multiple women in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. Though there is no set main character, the story would not be properly told without the inclusion of Skeeter Phelan, a young white woman interested in journalism. Skeeter begins a piece following the perspective of the help, who are African-American women who serve as maids to the white townswomen. Especially for the time period, this is a risky move for Skeeter. At the time,

The Help is a movie set during the civil rights movement in the 1960s (Taylor, 2011). It captures the tension, which was boiling between the black and white residents in Jackson, MI. Skeeter Phelan is an aspiring author who decides to return home to Jackson after completing her degree. What Skeeter does not realize until she comes back home, is how conscious she has become to the discrimination in which she grew up. After coming to this realization, Skeeter decides to write a book capturing the stories from the maid’s point of view about the white families for which they work.

In The Help by Kathryn Stockett, a story of the 1960’s is told. Prejudice is prominent, and the setting of the book, Jackson, Mississippi, is known well for the violent crimes against blacks committed in the city. One white woman, Skeeter Phelan, wanted to work to end the division between the two races. She planned to write a book filled with true stories from real life maids. She called upon her maid friend, Aibileen, to help her do this.

The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, is a novel, mainly telling of the life of a rich, white girl named Eugenia Phelan, nicknamed Skeeter. The story takes place in the 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, where Skeeter grew up on a plantation as she was raised by her maid, Constantine. It reflects on how the racial divide of blacks and whites influences the towns and mainly shows the contrast of the African-American maids and the white ladies that they work for. The reader is shown Skeeter’s quest to become a writer as well as all of the drama that ensues. From the views of Skeeter and maids, Aibileen and Minny, the reader is shown what it is like from both sides to live in the south during that time, especially as they work towards something that has

The Help film portrays life during the 1950s of black maids life stories in Mississippi. They showcase the difficulties of racism and the uprise of the Civil Right Movement. An aspiring white female author wants to write from the maids’ perspective of taking care of the prominent white families. Even though the relationship of a black and white person is unspoken, friendships develop through the hardships of the 1960s.

The film “The Help” (2011), is a story based on the daily lives of prominent white women and the relationships with their African-American housemaids in Jackson, Mississippi, during the 1960s Civil Rights movement in America. A well-to-do white woman and central character in this film, Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, aspires to be a journalist and decides to write and publish an exposé of the stories of the housemaids in Jackson to achieve this goal, however, only two maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson are willing to discuss their experiences with her. The other maid’s in Jackson resist telling Skeeter their stories, fearing the punishments they would endure if the authorities were to find out. In spite of this, after the malicious arrest of one of their befriended maids, all of the maids begin to share their experiences, which consist of racial hostility and being treated as intrinsically subservient to white people. The story Skeeter publishes entitled The Help, creates a disturbance among the white families in Jackson, by exposing the racism the maids are faced with, forcing the white families to reflect upon how they have treated their maids. The storyline represented in The Help exhibits examples of the primordial approach to race and ethnicity, as well as numerous sociological concepts including segregation, internalized oppression, and white privilege, which will be exemplified in this paper in order to uncover the race relations evident within this film.

The movie “The Help” shows the lifestyle of black women in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960’s. A young adult named Skeeter who wished to become a journalist gathers maids to write about their testimonies as black maids, which at first refused because of the fear of getting caught yet later agree. The setting of the movie is historically inaccurate because it didn't go into detail about the civil rights movement and all the things that occurred during this time, which was an important time in history. As well as the Jim Crow Laws, the movie also never spoke about what white people would do to those who were colored for example beating them to death.

Despite good intentions, the film still tells a small, sentimental story that glosses over the hard facts of the Civil Rights era. For Blount, the Help’s overarching “Hollywood narrative” is kinship, the ultimate bond formed between a white woman and a group of black women, a theme that eclipses the real issues of racism. The film does not tell the story of far-reaching social change—but rather the story of the less significant, anecdotal tolerance of a few individuals. “You don’t get enough of a sense of African-Americans as actors on a political stage,” he says. The sit-ins, the marches, the bus boycotts are all left out. Blount points out that the intended heroine is Skeeter, not the maids.

(Slide 5) A sociological theory that took place throughout The Help is Conflict Theory. In the time period this movie was set the 1960’s there was major change taking place. Across the nation as the American Civil Rights Movement was in full force. The movie portrays the different social classes. The white upper class, who held all the power and wealth and the people of color who worked for them. In the movie. Skeeter risked everything, not only for herself but mainly for the maids who agreed to help her and were put in writing. She ostracized herself by doing this and if caught she would face years in jail. She did this to help show the inequality between white and people of color.

Kathryn Scott’s The Help takes place in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s. This movie emphasizes tense racial conflicts that dominated the South during this post-World War era.  Segregation of whites verse blacks was a prevailing and dominating theme of the decade. The Help attempts to depict this time period by focusing on a white woman, Skeeter Phelan, who aspires to become a journalist. Society considered Skeeter as an oddity for wanting to leave her family and pursue an education. She goes against all social norms and secretly asks her maid, Aibileen, to help her write a book about the lives of maids. Despite the overwhelming danger associated with their relationship Aibileen agrees and even encourages other maids to take part. The intention behind Skeeter Phelan’s book was to spark a movement and change the way white people view their help. The Help suggests that education is the only route to social change.