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Close Reading Of Ralph Hilly's

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Racism is one of the main subthemes that is evident throughout the book. The treatment of the African American race showed how the White race felt about the African Americans. The Whites were afraid their “blackness” would rub off on them. An example of this behavior in the book was when Hilly says, “ It’s just plain dangerous. Everybody knows they carry different kinds of diseases than we do” (Stockett,10). This happened when Miss Hilly was trying to convince Miss Leefolt to build a separate bathroom outside of the house for the help to use. This is showing that the White race felt that the African American race had some type of disease. In order not to contract these “diseases” everything needed to be separate. This is also very ironic.

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