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Morality In Susan Hilly's The Help

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Hilly is a terrible villain, and Minny eventually bests her with a revenge plot that’s is far too much fun to give away here. But crucially, The Help only holds its characters’ attitudes to account by 1960s standards (paying a black person nothing to be your servant is alright, as long as you’re nice to them) and there’ll surely be few viewers whose consciences will prick while watching
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Dana evaluated The Help and it does seem that she really cared too much for this movie. Dana states, “ If The Help contained more moments in which Sskeeter’s goodwill wasn’t enough- in which, despite her best intentions, she blundered by unintentionally patronizing one of her interview subjects and had to confront her own received ideas about race- contemporary viewers might recognize a moment we’ve actually lived through, rather than being encouraged to congratulate ourselves on how far we’ve come” (Stevens 777). Essentially Stevens is trying to say that this movie was less unrelatable and more meant to make you feel better about the progress in modern society. Dana believes that this movie need to contain more relatable content that the reader can understand so that they have the ability to put themselves into that position. Instead this movie is essentially just showing us that we used to be bad and now we are better.

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You are correct, the physician is taking away Mrs. M 's right to chose her medical decisions. Mrs. M 's current physician is taking away her autonomy. Mrs. M has clearly shown that she can care for herself with the help of a community health nurse. Mrs. M does deserve to sit down and be informed of her condition and current situation. As you stated, once she understands her choices then a decision can be made.

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In The Help Directed by Tate Taylor, Is loosely based on the negative lifestyle of The Help during the 19060s. Minny, a main character in the movie, is a maid in the help that is outspoken. Ia incident in which Minny got fired she didn't accept the change so well. Minniy's Actions were justified because she did have a reason although it could have been done differently. She found it in herself to make a “special” pie in which it contained her excrements and watches Minny eat not only one but two slices.

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The opening scene of The Help, you see Aibileen, a black female that works for Mrs Leefolt. Aibileen opens the film with heartfelt stories of her personal experience in the maid industry. She says a saying through out the film to one of her white babies which is “you is kind, you is smart, you is important.” This quote I believe is an important one because Aibileen is teaching the baby to believe in herself and know that she is smart, kind and important. Aibileen also covers in the start of the film why she was a maid and how she came to become and made and that was “because her mama was one and her grandmamma was a house slave.”

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The villain in Kathryn Stockett’s work, The Help, is Miss Hilly Holbrook. What makes Miss Hilly a villain is that she is controlling and manipulative to everyone, she also does not like the idea of integration, and the last thing that makes Miss Hilly a villain is she is very rude to those around her. Miss Hilly Holbrook is villainous because she controls and manipulates not only her “friends” but also her help and strangers in order to get what she wants. In chapter twenty one Miss Hilly says, “I want that initiative in the newsletter before election time…or I'm calling upstairs, missy” (Stockett, 330). In this particular part of the book Miss Hilly is trying to get Skeeter to put her bathroom initiative in the monthly league newsletter by threatening to call the people in charge of the whole league organization and get her fired.

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The Help: Prompt 2 The Help has a lot of arrogant and selfish people in the book, but villain takes a new term when it comes to Hilly Holbrook. A wealthy socialite like Hilly wants control over the situation to seem like a leader, or someone in power. She is the villain of Jackson, Mississippi because she threatens/blackmails to get what she wants, encourages the need for segregation, and dehumanizes the black community. Hilly is the president of the Junior League and donates to charity only to seem like the perfect Jackson woman.

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Which opens the door for fellowship and hospitality, as Ailbileen agrees more and more maids agree to tell their story of how it’s like to work for the white employers. Another character in the movie The Help, Minny, seem to always be in trouble with her employers because of her mouth. Finally finds a friendship with one of her latest employer Ceila; Minny at first wants Ceila to treat her like an employee, but then starts teaching Ceila how to cook and take care the home. Both Minny and Ceila took care of each other in many ways, Minny is offered a permanent job at the residence. There are symbols in the film that shows togetherness is a way of healing and brings a step towards

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In The Help, Aibileen and Minny each respond differently towards their white employers, but while Minny’s approach possesses both benefits and drawbacks, Aibileen’s attitude only ensures her own safety. Minny’s rash and fiery nature provides the black community with major blackmail material though it leads to her losing her job; while Aibileen’s restrained and tolerant personality assists her in steering clear of trouble but does not improve the state of racial injustice. For instance, Minny prepares a pie coated with her own poop, and she delivers it to her arrogant employer, Hilly Holbrook. As a downside, Minny receives a hard beating from her husband and loses her secured job due to her quick actions in anger. Viewers soon learn that Minny’s impulsive behavior did not go to waste though, because she holds an embarrassing and valuable secret concerning Hilly and the pie incident.

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In The Help by Kathryn Stockett, two of the main characters, Minny Jackson and Miss Celia Foote, each undergo a different epiphany that changes their thoughts about another person. Minny realizes that Skeeter’s book is significant to her life; Miss Celia Foote realizes that being friends with the evil Hilly is not what she wants. Minny, a black maid in Mississippi, has an epiphany that revolves around the importance of Skeeter’s book, which is about black maids’ everyday lives, plays in her life. Earlier in The Help, Minny wants nothing to do with Skeeter’s book. Minny makes her position in the book obvious when she states that there is “no way I’m gonna do something crazy as that [helping write the book]” (Stockett 129).

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Kathryn Stockett’s Personal Experience “On the one hand I wonder, was this really my story to tell? On the other hand, I just wanted the story to be told,” a quote once said by Kathryn Stockett when talking about her bestselling book, The Help. The Help is a book about three women, two black and one white, during the 1960’s, the Civil Rights Movement. Inspired to write about her own maid, Demetrie, whom she yearned for, she started her research on the 1960’s and treatment of black servants by their employers.

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The novel The Help by “Kathryn Stockett” was published in 2009. The book was created to shed light on the racism in our time and in the daily lives of the white citizens, in Jackson 1960s. The novel was a successes, expressing many valid points about the prejudice of those of other races and giving clear insight into their lives. Then in 2011 a movie was created, following the storyline of the novel. For the most part the movie followed the same story line, but there were many important scenes, that were not included.

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Hilly Holbrook’s manipulative and condescending personality shapes her into the main villain of the novel, The Help. Her elite status in the town of Jackson, Mississippi, forces people to conform to her wants, and she punishes anyone who tries to challenge her. Due to her lack of concern for anyone other than herself, she becomes a brutal force against nearly every person she comes approaches.     As mentioned in the book, Hilly is the epitome of the white woman stereotype. Aibileen’s analysis of the white women’s form of revenge accurately represents the character of Hilly.

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The characters told stories through their words and actions that sparked the reader’s interests and created a feeling of hope for change within the two different types of people explained, the white people and the help. The courage the three women showed with the publication of the novel caused people, some of whom had no idea of the severity of the racism still prevalent in their society, to rethink their actions and the actions of others to start a movement towards equality. Regardless of the movies ability to capture the strong-mindedness of Minny, the determination of Skeeter, the offensiveness of Hilly or the loving nature of Aibileen, the movie will never be able to bring the complex characters, plot and details to life like the book does. The book describes the story in ways the movie will never be able to in a little over two hours run time.

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Set in Jackson, Mississippi ‘The Help’ written by Kathryn Stockett; is about the struggles that African American maids went through while working in a white household during the 1960’s. Black maids were entrusted with the young lives of the white children from ‘privileged families’ but were barred from using the same supermarkets, library’s or something so superficial as a bathroom. Stockett tells this story of risk, racism and courage through three different women, Aibileen Clark, Minny Jackson and Skeeter (Eugenia Phelan). Skeeter is a young privileged white girl who has recently come home from completing her four-year journalism (English) degree at the University of Mississippi. Skeeter the same as every other white privileged child was brought up by a black maid Constantine; Skeeter saw Constantine as more than just the help but as family.

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1.0 INTRODUCTION The Help is an example of American drama film. It was released in August 9, 2011 and its length was 146 minutes and directed by Tate Taylor. The film was adapted to a novel, where there has been a long tradition of African- American women serving as “The Help” for upper-middle class white woman and their families. Descriptions of historical events of the early activities of thecivil rights movement are peppered throughout the novel, as are interactions between the maids and their white employers.

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