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In the early 1960's, at Jackson, Mississippi. Skeeter(Emma Stone) comes home to her friends and family – she has just graduated from Ole Miss and returned home to take care of her ill mother. Unlike her female colleagues and friends who used their Ole Miss time to find a husband, Skeeter, who has never had a boyfriend despite wanting romance in her life, only strives for a career, as a journalist.
Aibileen is a black woman who works for the Leefolts family. She is rearing Ms.Leefolts child Mobley who is neglected by her mother for being fat and ugly. Aibileen constantly tries to tell Mobely is smart and beautiful and raise her in a proper way. Mobley’s mother is an easy influenced nervous wreck. Aibileen claims Mrs. Leefolt should not have …show more content…

She has five children and is married with a man called Leroy. Her outspokenness often lead her to getting fired despite she is highly regarded for her cooking skills. Minny develops a friendship with Mrs. Foote. They become very devoted and help each other out to take care of their own lives. Mrs. Foote has a different view of point on her maid like Skeeter and unlike the rest of the white people in town. She is not from Jackson and comes from a poor family. She does not make friends with Hilly Holbrook and her friends because they think she is white trash and Hilly claims she stole her husband.
Hilly Holbrook lives with her dement mother and she is the leader of the bridge club and has a lot of influence. She fires Minny for using her bathroom and loses her temper quite often. She treats Minny so bad; Minny decides to bake her cake with her feces in it. Hilly eats the cake to her mother and Minny’s pleasure and sends her mom off to an elder …show more content…

I think it does. From the facts that we have it seems very unlikely that the maids were treated so well. The film does not show anyone getting hurt, killed or lynched for the color of their skin. And when people in town found out what Skeeter and the maids were doing, nobody in the film took action against the blacks. That does not give a fair realistic picture of how it actually was in the Deep South in 1963. Despite that the maids were neglected; none of them got physically hurt which is a delusional picture of how it really was. Yes, they got racist comments now and then but nobody bled a single drop of blood on the screens. From what I have learned people like Hilly could have beaten Mindy up for using her bathroom, not just firing her. The white men are almost hidden away because they were at work when things happened. But if they found out anything the maid had done wrong I am sure they would have taken action. When one of the maids stole a ring she was reported to the police, not lynched or beaten up by the owner. This is unlikely, because people lynched just for accusations, they didn’t even need proof.
The film can tell us that modern America carries a burden with how white people treated the blacks, and now does anything to make it right again. Most people these days do not have a problem with racism, but there still are racists out there. When people see this movie it tells them that it is totally wrong to treat other

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