Essays on The Help

According to Robert Blauner, racism is a tendency to categorize who are culturally different in terms of their physical traits, such as skin color, hair color, texture, and eye shape (source). There are a range of films portraying racism. It is an inspiration for directors...

Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird and Skeeter from The Help both learn about the lives of people not in their own racial group, but they both have different motivations for learning. In the film The Help, Skeeter learns about the black community by interviewing...

Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, published in 2009, received critical acclaim upon its release and it remained number one on the New York Times bestseller list for a year. By the time the 2011 film adaptation of the book went to theaters, The Help had sold...

In the movie, The Help, the plot takes place during the 1960s in which a colored maid and a college educated white women work together to expose the poor treatment colored maids faced. This film is centered around the modern stereotype of a white family’s...

There hasn’t been a time in our society where people haven’t been treated differently because of the color of their skin or because of where they stand in society. In The Help, an effort is made to separate whites and blacks in every way possible...

A sincerely blending film occurring in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s, ‘The Help’ stars Emma Stone, Viola Davis, and Octavia Spencer as three ladies who offer a typical thought process. This racially tense setting makes the ideal establishment for a dramatization film, for example, this....