Taken place in Jackson, Mississippi, USA, The Help brings us back to the 1960s where people in America discriminated another people based on their races. It is a movie that tells us about racism that was happening back in the 60s where WASP or broadly known as white people think they are better than other races in America. In this movie, the writer focused on the way white people treated African-American or black people in the 60s before the racial equality occurred. Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan (Emma Stone) is a writer who wants to achieve her dream to be a journalist. One day she started to write a book about how it feels like to be black around the white people community. The black people’s occupations mostly were maids at the moment. They were treated with lack of respect by white people back then. Even though she comes from rich white family, Skeeter is down-to-earth to everyone including to black people. She wanted to help the black people which was the reason why she wrote a book related to that. Skeeter’s best-selling novel, The Help is based on a true story of black maids in Mississippi. Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) and Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer) are two black maids who help Skeeter on writing the novel. At first, Aibileen refused to help her because she was afraid …show more content…
But not all white people in this movie and also in reala life are all bad. As we can see from this movie, Celia Foote (Jessica Chastain), a white trash social outcast did not treat her new maid, Minny, with lack of respect. In fact, she thinks that Minny is as equal as her. She did not consider Minny as her maid, but also a friend for her because Minny had taught her a lot to be better and to be more