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The Help Tate Taylor Essay

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The Help directed by Tate Taylor is a film set in Jackson, Mississippi, in the 1960s. African-American maid named Aibileen Clark who works for Elizabeth Leefolt, a white woman. Aibileen 's best friend is named Minny Jackson who is outspoken who work for Hilly Holbrook’s mother but is fired for her sassy tongue. Eugenia Skeeter Phelan, young white women who discover that her childhood nanny is fired. This film tells the story of these three women working together to tell an unforgettable story about blacks maids. In this film, we see that the black was only allowed to raise the white children, they weren 't permitted to use the same supermarket, parks, toilet and they couldn’t eat on the same table. When Skeeter gets the opportunity to publish a book, she wants to write about black women’s problems to shows the discrimination against the black women’s. These three women team up on a project that will put them all at risk in an attempt to change the minds of the people. In the film, they demonstrated courage and showed the idea of Martin Luther King quote “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they …show more content…

They demonstrated courage and inspired me in many ways like to stand up for myself or others. I was able to empathize with the characters on how they felt about what happened in society. In the film The Help, it helped me understand discrimination because I saw how people are discriminated on daily bases like when getting a job, schools, and home etc. How discrimination can make someone feel very bad about of themselves and how you shouldn 't change yourself for others than what film has taught me. This showed that everyone can look different but are the same inside and it doesn 't matter what your outside appearance is. What matters is the

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