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The Help: Book vs. Movie
In 2009, Kathryn Stockett wrote a book called “The Help” that was turned into a movie in by director Tate Taylor. The Help is about a young Caucasian woman named Miss Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan who has a friendship with African-American maids Abilene Clark and Minnie Jackson, during the Civil Rights Era of the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi. Miss Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan is an aspiring writer who decides to write a book on what it is like to be an African-American maid working in a racist environment with Caucasian families. However, the book is different from the movie due to the characters storyline. During my reading of this book and watching the movie I’ve noticed important lines in the book that was left out in the movie. …show more content…

Some differences that were portrayed in the book was that Skeeter was big and tall, but in the movie she was medium sized, but not short. Also in the movie, Skeeter’s maid Constantine in the movie daughter is a dark skinned woman in the book she appears to be a light skinned woman. In “The Help” Skeeter finds out from her family that Constantine died when they sent a check in the mail. The movie version of “The Help” Skeeter’s mother told her that her brother brought Constantine back home with her family, the brother finds out that Constantine has passed

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