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How Is Racism Shown In The Help

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The Help ‘The Help’ directed by Tate Taylor in 2011 is a dramatic feature film based on the Civil Rights Movements in the 1960’s in Jackson, Mississippi. It shows how the African-Americans were treated in that time exploring the separation between the races and how one race dominated the other one because of the color of their skin. The main focus of the movie is on the racism, classism and segregation where the African-American population were inferior to the ‘superior’ white population. ‘The Help’ also shows how cruel it is to treat another human being unfairly this is shown clearly when Aibileen’s son gets killed, Celia being discriminated and segregation. In the movie we are told how Aibileen Clark’s son Treelore Clark died in a senseless accident because his lung got crushed by a truck. But then the driver of the truck drove him to the colored hospital and dumped him there, honked the horn and left. “That white foreman threw his body on the back of a truck. Drove to the colored hospital and dumped him there and honked the horn.” (The Help, 2011) This portrays that colored people were seen as disposable, as they did not see him as human, as they did not even take into consideration his health and family. The actions of the white man clearly shows how superior they believed they were. …show more content…

Because of complete isolation for the community of Jackson, and her loneliness leads to desperate acts to make friends such as; phoning the society women multiple times, showing up to their houses uninvited, and making a fool out of herself at the Benefit (biggest social event of the year). “They made me stand there like I was the vacuum salesman.” (The Help, 2011) This displays how unfairly Hilly treated not just African-Americans even her own

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