Essays on The Help

The themes of racism, gender inequality, and social influence are explored in the novel The Help written by Kathryn Stockett and the film Forrest Gump directed by Robert Zemeckis. Stockett explores the idea of social influence on a narrow-minded society through the three main protagonists…

In ‘The Help’, maids endure many challenges that maids in our current society may or may not endure. Inequality and racial discrimination are two of the most important themes that we find in the story that shaped the type of relationship that the maids have…

The 552-page turner novel ‘The Help’ by Kathryn Stockett has sold over 7 million copies worldwide. The debut novel is narrated via a symphony of three different women in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s during the early years of the American Civil Rights movement. The…

Racism and discrimination have been present in almost every era throughout history. Unfortunately, it still exists in our population in ways which remind us of the hardships that people of colour had to go through, mainly in the United States. Even though the world has…

Prejudice Prejudice being a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience was the cause of many hate crimes during this time period where blacks were considered to be lesser of a human than whites.The 1960’s were a time of racism and…

Importance of Writing During this time period of extreme prejudice and the segregation of colors, it was hard to voice an opinion that would go against the social normality of treating blacks as inferior. Writing was a way that people were able to tell the…

The environment that surrounds a particular person can be either detrimental or beneficial. Specifically, the people who one grows up with can be a great influence. In Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, one can easily see many relationships between the different characters. Besides the obvious family…