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What Does Aibien Symbolize In The Help

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The Help by Kathryn Stockett Segregated bathrooms, lunch counters, and schools. Being treated like nothing more than dirt. For many African Americans living in the South this was part of their everyday life. The Help, written by Kathryn Stockett, is the story about the problems with racial prejudice and the mistreatment of the African Americans, many of which worked underneath whites. The bitter seed growing inside of Aibileen is a symbol of how she feels about her mistreatment of blacks. Which is growing as a result of the way the white women she works for treat her and her friends. In this book the symbol of the bitter seed from Aibileen’s son’s death appears multiple times throughout the story and shows the true damage from treating someone is such a terrible way. His death shook her life so much it affected …show more content…

“I see Baby Girl getting spanked cause a me. I see her listening to Miss Leefolt call me dirty, disease. The bus speeds up State Street. We pass over the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and my jaw so tight I could break my teeth off. I feel that bitter seed growing inside a me, the one planted after Treelore died. I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain’t a color, disease ain’t the Negro side a town. I want to stop that moment from coming - and it come in ever white child’s life - when they start to think that colored folks ain’t as good as whites. We turn on Farish and I stand up cause my stop be coming. I pray that wasn’t her moment. I pray I still got time” (Stockett 111). The seed growing is a result of the many types of injustice and hateful comments that Aibileen withstands everyday. When she starts working on the book with Skeeter she eventually stops mentioning the bitter seed. This is a symbol of how she is using her own personal struggles and turning them into a motivation to prevent the suffering of

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