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Character Analysis Of Minny

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She said to Skeeter: ““What makes you think colored people need your help?” Minny stands up, chair scraping. “Why you even care about this? You white.”””PG 164 Despite often hiding it, Minny is extremely caring and observant. She often shows it to her friends and family but doesn’t like letting her employers see her more vulnerable personal side. She thinks to herself about Ms Celia, “Underneath all that happy, she sure doesn’t look happy.”pg 44 Minny is a lot more reluctant to tell her story to Miss Skeeter as she doesn’t easily trust, but slowly she explains her life through abuse and racism. Despite the fact that telling her story is dangerous, she finds it exciting that things in Jackson have a hope of changing. Minny is a very round and believable character as she has flaws and also many strengths. She becomes empowered …show more content…

Skeeter became more empathetic and understanding, the Finch children matured because of seeing the hardships people face and Lily mainly developed because of August’s support and empowering nature. However very few of the black characters developed because of the white characters. Aibileen and Minny developed because of the opportunity to tell their story, Roseleen mostly developed through August and there were no main black characters in “To Kill a Mockingbird” other than Tom Robinson who didn’t greatly develop. Most of the black characters develop because of the oppressive systems in place. “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Secret Life of Bees” have a man as the main antagonist and “The Help” has women as the main antagonists. In each book the main character was white, apart from “The Help” where Aibileen was also a main character. Skeeter, Scout and Lily were all white females telling a story of oppression which can mean that their amount of understanding of the racial situations would be limited, as they had never been discriminated against in the same

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