Kathryn Stockett's The Help

The book The Help was originally written by Kathryn Stockett and published in 2009. The book was transformed into a movie which was also called the The Help. The movie was released in August 10, 2011, by DreamWorks Studio. The screenplay was written by Tate Taylor, who also directed the film. A young white female writer, Eugenia Phelan, who was nicknamed, Skeeter, portrayed by Emma Stone, returned from the University of Mississippi in the 1960s after she graduated. She came back to her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, and decided to write a book from the point of view of the help. She wanted to interview and write a book about the difficult situations that the black maids went through and saw working in white homes. She first gets Aibileen Clark, portrayed by Viola Davis, to open up about her experiences, and then the other black maids decided to share their stories. The book changed the lives and the town for good and bad forever. Anyone who has watched The Help will understand why Aibileen is the strongest person in the movie she was an audacious and kindhearted person whose life made her bitter and unforgiving.

When Skeeter asked Aibileen how she felt about raising white children when her own child was at home being looked after by someone she sadly glanced up at a single picture of a young black man hanging on the wall. Later in the movie Aibileen tells Skeeter that her son was carrying two by fours when he slipped and a truck ran over him and that his white foreman threw his body in the back of the truck, drove him to the black hospital, dumped his body on the ground, honked the horn and drove off. She goes on to say that “...anniversary of his death, every year, I can’t breathe. But to you all it’s just another day of bridge.” Although she was bitter about his death, it made her a stronger person. She uses the bitterness of the loss of her son as her main motivation to help Skeeter finish the