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Resilience In The Help

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The Help directed by Tate Taylor is a film about the town of Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s during the Black Civil Rights period. A white female, Skeeter takes on the stories of coloured maids to write a book that would go onto sell worldwide to help get the uncommonly heard point of view of the help be heard. A common theme that features throughout the film is resilience. I agree strongly with the way Skeeter as a character was used to take action in order to help the coloured community. Skeeter and the maids had to go through so many struggles and challenges to get the point of view of these maids out there for everyone to realise how poorly they were being treated. Having shown a white women take action and put so much effort in to help the coloured people isn't a common thing we see when it comes to films associated with the black civil rights. The director liked to subtly link parts of the movie to how bad the whole situation could turn. This really got you thinking and really hooked me in to wonder what the outcome will turn out to be since there are so many negative outcomes that could have occurred so it kept me thinking and made me pay attention …show more content…

Abilene showed resilience by realising she needs to make a stand and she can't continue to live in these poor conditions. I found this really made an emotional connection with the audience and the character. It showed that in life your biggest fears can be your greatest encouragement to make a change in our lives. This film really showed how resilient people can be if they want to make a difference. When Skeeter witnessed how poorly the help was treated she decided to take a stand. Skeeter and the maids were breaking laws in order for their voices to be heard and they went through so many emotional and physical challenges but those things are what pushed them to be better and push harder with the

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14. This revels that even though Skeeter is aware all of the racism that goes in her community, she was still brought up in a way to look down upon coloured people. Even though Skeeter knows about all the racism she’s seen, at the end of the day she is still white thought to think coloured people aren’t as good as her. 15. I think this action would be considered inappropriate for a lot of the white woman in Jackson because Sketter did that to her own friend. She was disobeying her own colour and people would think poorly of Skeeter, and especially Hilly.

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She quickly learns that these women are asked to work under unfavorable circumstances for unkind white people. They are asked to come in early, stay late, maintain a dog-like obedience, cater to their employers’ every need, raise children while not becoming attached to them, and are still expected to be content with a less-than-livable wage. Skeeter quickly learns that these are real people who are affected by these circumstances and it seems to rub salt into Skeeter’s wound, the Constantine wound. Missing Constantine is one of Skeeter’s biggest issues, even though it’s been over a year since she’s seen her. Skeeter sees the toll it takes on the women’s personal lives and gets a better look at what these people are really capable of.

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Despite the fact that Skeeter is apparently an untouchable with her old group, regardless she plays span with them, and alters the pamphlet for the Women's League. A supervisor in New York (Mary Steenburgen) informs her to compose concerning things that trouble her, and gradually, as Skeeter checks out her at the unknown dark cleaning specialists in each house, she gets the thought to meeting servants about their experience working for white ladies. Skeeter's first inspiration was her adored adolescence servant, Constantine. She adored her as her mom, yet she went out. She is bewildered as she trusted Constantine would not have left without composing her, and it is uncovered that Constantine was really let go; Skeeter's mom Charlotte declines to acknowledge her girl's genuine stun as meager more than eruption and further declines to give the motivation behind why Constantine was let go.

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I realized that Skeeter set multiple examples throughout the book that stands out of the gender stereotypes and examples of feminism. For example, being tall and not dating or marrying a guy during college. 9. I find it interesting to be able to relate back in the past especially history. Racism is one the issues we still have today, and it was a major problem back in the sixties where everyone is segregated unlike

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As Skeeter, Aibileen, and Minny get closer finishing their book, Hilly gets more aggressive and serious with her threats. After Skeeter posted Hilly’s newsletter with a ‘typo’ that gave Skeeter a motive to place 32 toilets in Hilly’s yard, Hilly finally decided to remove her as editor of the League’s newsletter to save her and the League’s reputation (Stockett 412-3). Toward the end of the novel, Hilly has figured out the novel Skeeter has wrote is about the maids of Jackson, Mississippi, but she cannot tell anyone because of a story Minny put in there. However, it does not stop her from having people fire their maids even if she has no reasoning behind it. This leads to her convincing Miss Leefolt, Aibileen’s employer, to fire Aibileen as a maid for ‘theft’ of Hilly’s silver which was a cover up to Hilly’s real motive for firing her (Stockett 518-22).

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At the time Ms Skeeter cannot comprehend the situation of what is going on, because of this reasoning Aibileen needs to walk home. It does not seem important although that was the only black bus available for her and the rest of them are for white people only. By no means Skeeter would never want Aibileen to miss her bus and have to walk home, that would be racially incorrect of her. Skeeter can’t comprehend how different her life is compared to maids and people of colour. She doesn’t have a proper understanding of how difficult their lives are, because of the separate but equal laws and regulations.

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The maids fear their employees terribly, knowing that they are capable of much more than just firing them. The feeling grows in the women when they agree to help write Skeeter's book because they know if it is discovered that they wrote stories about their life as maids for white women and the joys and well as the sorrows that come with the job, they will be at the hands of the deadly white women. The white women have the power to destroy a maid's reputation, making it impossible to find work. Sometimes, the black women fear more than just their occupation. Aibileen mentions this when she says, "She don’t know about them sharp, shiny utensils a white lady use.

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Skeeter is seen to develop in two different ways: a young woman who doesn 't have marriage as a first priority anymore and a woman who later sees an injustice to the black help. Skeeter is a white socialite who just graduated from college with a degree in writing. She came back to Jackson Mississippi with the idea of starting to write for book publishing companies but arrives home only for her mother to question her about marriage. Upon the many

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Kathryn Stockett’s novel, The Help, is not just about overcoming racism, but also about overcoming the constant human power struggle. The novel also showed how people treated each others, regardless if they were the same race. Throughout the book, Skeeter is ignored and cut-off by her friends while Minny is abused by her own husband. These two events happened even though each was the same race. Even the woman Minny worked for was being ignored because of who she married.

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Because men thought less of women in this time period, the fact that Skeeter has such enthusiasm about starting her writing career causes everyone to make her feel very discouraged. According to Stockett, people believe that because she is a woman, Skeeter isn’t capable of upholding a job that is so prestigious as to be a writer. Because of this, Skeeter has to fight back to everyone to prove that she is smart enough and able to pursue a career in this field. Because most women are known for holding the role of a stay at home mother who dedicates their lives to their families, Skeeter’s motivation to reach for her dreams is very dampened considering everyone doubts her abilities. This is quite significant because even though people are making it very clear that they don’t believe she can achieve her dreams, Skeeter is putting forth all her might to prove them wrong.

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Review of The Help The movie “The Help” is about a girl called Skeeter in Mississippi in 1960s who returns from college and whose dream is to become a writer. When Skeeter realises how bad black people are treated and their labour relations she decides to write a book about how it is to be a black maid in the southern states. She starts with interviewing her best friends maid, Aibileen. Soon more and more maids want to help and come forward and tell their stories both good and bad.

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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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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.

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