Thursday, November 15, 2012

How Did Skeeter change in the help?


Imagine being treated differently every day just because of the color of your skin. When Hilly talks about the toilet law right in front of Abilene I can’t imagine how she must have felt. Skeeter in The Help by Kathryn Stockett have changed the maids view of society just as they have changed her.

Skeeter was raised in a town that was prejudice everybody had an African American maid but what Skeeter didn’t realize was the prejudices of her town. She refused to believe how evil her town was to African Americans. When she had her maid Constantine who she had a very special relationship with because she raised her she didn’t realize how mean everyone was to her just because the color of her skin.  But she didn’t  know why she was different from everybody else and didn’t hear what people said about her and other African Americans behind their backs.  

She changes the maids point of views of society because she shows them that they should be whoever they want to be and they don’t have to just be maids. That they could change Jackson Mississippi forever because just because they were a certain color doesn’t mean that they can’t accomplish things. and the only thing that’s different about them from the rest of the world is the color of their skin and they shouldn’t be treated the way they are. 

The maids changed her view of society because they opened up her eyes to how nasty the town can be.  How mean people are to the maids and how they’re treated and skeeter kind of puts herself in their shoes, realizing how mean her friends and family could be to their maids.

Skeeter changed because she decided to interview Abilene and it opened up her eyes to see the true prejudices of her upbringing. She changed the maids view of society just as much as they changed her.  She learned that color does not define who you are and what you can accomplish. Skeeter started out as a rich person not exactly like her friends but close and after she wrote her book she turned into someone else. That’s really what changed Skeeter: her idea to write about something that crossed everybody’s mind but no one was brave enough to talk about it.

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