Character Development In The Help By Kathryn Stocket

In my opinion, the two aspects are necessary in order to understand Minny’s character and the importance of the role she plays in the novel. They explicitly show the differences between her and the other housemaids. Minny’s use of both versions of English, African American Vernacular and Standard English makes her stand out from the other housemaids, because she is the only one using both idiolects in such as clear way. In addition, her employment of sarcasm and irony as well as her courage to stand up against her white bosses sets her apart from her fellow housemaids as well. Therefore, Minny Jackson is an influential character in this novel, whose importance becomes clear through her language and her behavior averse to her

By an anonymous writer later revealed as Skeeter also known as Eugenia Phelan. Skeeter, a white woman, returns to her hometown (Mississippi) to discover that her motherly nanny Constantine has left but no one tells what happened. Soon Skeeter realizes the injustice her society practices and decides to write a book where voices of black will be raised. She approaches Aibileen for sharing her narrative to which Aibileen responds positively and also let’s Minny in their secret. Minny, Aibileen’s friend, another black help, reveals a secret about Miss Hilly that ensures Miss Hilly’s silence after the publication of their writing project.

Rebecca said, “As I worked my way through graduate school studying writing, I became fixated on the idea of someday telling Henrietta’s story”. Throughout the story, Skloot’s unceasing effort to gain more knowledge about Henrietta led to becoming close with her family. There were many harsh feelings in the beginning, due to the family’s anger towards

The Help, a novel by Kathryn Stockett, tells the story of a young woman named Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan. She persuades African American maids to help write a book of interviews that will ultimately change the way Southerners see their maids forever. One of the main characters, a black maid named Aibileen, trusts Skeeter first and tells her amazing but dark story. On the other hand, Celia, a white upper middle-class woman, has a mysterious past that shaped her life. This book weaves a beautiful tale with many literary skills, but identity, which defines a person, prevails above all.

Stockett studied creative writing and English for her undergraduate course from the University of Alabama. Then she moved to New York in order to pursue work in the publishing business. For about nine years she offered her services in marketing and publishing of magazine there and later relocated to Atlanta, Georgia. She shifted her interest to literary writing as she moved back to South. After five years of hard work on her personal writing project she finally had The Help published in 2009.

Meeting Homer Barron was her biggest change from her old self, because her father did not allow her be in any relationships, but she went out in public with Homer “driving in the yellow-wheeled buggy and the matched team of bays from the livery stable” (454). Consequently, this was only because she was living in her own reality and believed that Homer would be the one to marry her. Homer was “not a marrying man” (454) and would not marry Emily, but she refused to accept the denial of marriage from him, so she killed him to keep him with her forever. She stayed within her house to keep herself in the Old South. When she told the men to see Colonel Sartoris, she was not aware that “Colonel Sartoris had been dead for almost ten years” (452) at that point.

This is shown when the maids agree to voice out their stories after Yule May is arrested. The stories told in the novel encourage African Americans to take action. The novel shows the lack of humanity in Jackson segregation laws. These women depict injustice “like a boil, [for it] can never be cured [as] long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness” (King). This solidarity shows their rebellious efforts to voice out their exploitation and injustice; no matter the consequences.

Another potential reason that Lavinia became addicted to laudanum is because she saw that way it numbed Mrs. Pyke to her surroundings. It is likely that Lavinia wanted to rid herself of the guilt she felt for abandoning her old friends. She was so close to all of the slaves working in the kitchen house, but when she remarried and became the woman of the house, all of her friends had to treat her differently. If Lavinia stayed in her bed all day, she would not have to deal with her memories of the good days when everyone treated each other equally. Laudanum would also help her forget about her dour husband who did not respect her.

Throughout the discovery of his son not being white, he blames Desiree for being the cause of the problem. He won’t speak out of the discovery of him being the one with black heritage because it is unacceptable to his family. He is insensitive and would rather harm his own family (Gradesaver.com...1) Another example of irony occurs in the way that Madame Valmonde didn 't have a child of herself and one day while her husband was riding he comes upon a child just asleep next to a stone pillar (Chopin... Pg.

Her mother was very strict about the rules that were kept against black people, and educated her with false beliefs. The segregation solely for bathrooms was taught to Mae Mobley by her mother at an influential age when she used a colored persons bathroom. “I did not raise you to use the coloured bathroom!... This is dirty out here, Mae Mobley. You’ll catch diseases!”(Stockett 111)

I, having previously read the entire book, I know that it does following in the theme of oppression. Oppression being “prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control” is what was taking place throughout this entire novel. This can be specifically proven true when a bill comes out stating that white and blacks can no longer share the same restrooms, therefore Miss Hilly had a separate bathroom constructed for Aibileen. When Mae Mobley attempts to use Aibileen’s bathroom she is shamed by Elizabeth. After this is when Aibileen takes matters into her own hands to teach Mae the true meaning of racial equality and civil

She then went to school to learn how to become one and she then graduated from “Wetter School” in 1956 in Mount Vernon, NY. After she graduated from one school, she was privately tutored from 1956 until 1959. Then at age 17 she published her first series in poetry in a magazine. Ever since she started writter it started to take off and Robin Morgan started writing more poetry books. Robin Morgan was part of the key radical feminist that was in the Women 's Movement, she also was one of the leaders of the International Feminist group since the 1960’s.

In “Whistlin ' and Crowin ' Women of Appalachia: Literacy Practices Since College, ”Katherine Kelleher Sohn writes about case-studies to track the literacy development of three female Appalachian college graduates to determine how education can change their literary habits, all of whom are Sohn’s former students. Sohn explores how the literate practices has influence their jobs, home, and community. She illustrates the various ways literacy has empowered the three women. Sohn uses her findings to clear the years of fallibilities from education and public perception of the Appalachian culture. Reading "Whistlin ' and Crowin ' Women of Appalachia: Literacy Practices Since College" has made an impact in way I view the importance of

In the end Aibileen and Skeeter helped each other. After the book was published Skeeter tells Aibileen that she acquired “a job offer at Harper’s Magazine in New York as a copy editor’s assistant.” (499). She also tells her that she “went to the paper on Friday and quit” and told Mr. Golden that she believed Aibileen should take her spot.

Jean finds out that Zeebo is Calpurnia 's grandson, making his boy her great-grandson, Atticus agrees to be his lawyer, if only to stop the NAACP from stepping in; and keeping them from Alabama. Later on, Jean takes a secret trip to Calpurnia only to get even more upset, because Calpurnia is talking to her this way, not using proper English. So Calpurnia just stops talking altogether, so Jean Louise gets up to leave. Part V shows Jean getting fed up with people using foul language about black people and starts speaking how she feels.