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Comparing Skeeter And Scout Finch In The Film The Help

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“I think there is just one kind of folks. Folks.” (Scout Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird) In society people judge African Americans by the color of their skin and their religion than by who they really are as a person. African Americans had zero rights as a person in 1857. Skeeter only saw one kind of people in the film “The Help”. She saw everybody as the same because she believed that maids should have a voice and have the same rights whites have. I am with Skeeter and Scout Finch that their are only one kind of people which is people. This should not matter on their colour of their skin, ender or religion. In the film “The Help” racism is viewed in the black maids by being denied on their chance of learning for an education for a job that …show more content…

Which in the film it shows us that. This is shown by the maid Yule May Davis because she asks for some extra money to send her twin boys to college and then tries to say that she would work for free. Hilly does not like what Yule said at all. Hilly viewed herself as top notched and Yule as a maid with diseases. Skeeter thought it was wrong to treat people differently. I think African Americans should get the same chance of a good education like the whites. It is wrong to discriminate someone because of the colour of their skin. Also by if they are male or female and not allowing women to experience and obtain a good paying job. Black women had no other choices but to be maids with low wages and their bosses could treat them however they would prefer. In the film Minny gets fired for using a toilet inside, the same toilet the white family used. Minny choose to use the inside toilet because she was frightened to use the bathroom outside because of the storm. This is wrong because if it storming outside I would not want to go anywhere near windows or even take the chance to go outside. This is one of the actions that Skeeter wrote about because she wanted to change how white women and men treated the black

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