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.
In the film, “The Help” directed by Tate Taylor, an important relationship for me was that between Minny and Hilly. The two of them placed in the same room together created for some hilariously memorable scenes, including the scene where Minny gets fired and the iconic “eat my shit scene”. The first scene I am going to introduce to you is the scene where Minny gets fired. There was a raging storm going outside and while Minny as like all other black maids in this era of history would commonly go outside in the separate bathroom reserved for blacks only should she ever feel the need to ‘relieve herself’.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
The Help is set in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s. Skeeter, a southern society girl, interviews the black women who have spent their lives being servants for wealthy white Southern families. There are various scenes throughout the film that show social stratification, racial inequalities, gender inequalities, and class inequalities. Massey’s Social Stratification Theory states that humans allocate people to different categories. These categories often lead to inequality which is implemented socially.
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.
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.
This doesn’t change the fact The Help wants to be a film showcasing white and black women coming together to work against injustices all around them, but the story is too removed from the real issues of the south. This film is to entertain not to teach others about the 1960s. I do believe the intended audience for this film is white women. Women have always had it rough, but black women have had it bad. This movie sort of makes fun of the real issues back then.
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.
