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Cynthia Niamoutie English 132 Professor Johnson November 21, 2013 "The Help" black and whites but best friends "The Help" is a dramatic movie that takes place in Jackson, Mississippi in the 60s. That was a time of racial segregation. The story of this movie emerges from the desire of a white young woman to builds a forbidden friendship with two black helps and tells their stories. The universe of the movie is exclusively feminine. At the beginning of the movie, White housewife, are seen playing the bridge and spending afternoon with their whites friends. Each housewife has a black help, who serve them and take care of their children. The classic family in Jackson has a maid. These black women do not live in complete peace; it is all the interest of the movie. Employers bicker between them and despise abundantly their staff. Rather sadly, Hollywood seems to think that the public becomes identified more widely with a story led by white characters, here, the movie tries to wash the image of Whites during the segregation. The horrors of the oppression of black people are reminded but contrasted by white hero who will face adversity t...

« about black and white friendship; one-on-one friendship has portrayed in movies can not erase the four hundred years of slavery and white supremacy. In the movie, Skeeter a young white woman newly graduated journalist, returns in her hometown of Jackson where she works in a small local newspaper the "household".

In search of an original subject for her article, she asks, Aibileen and Minnie to black maids for help by telling her the stories of their lives as black maid, how is it to work for white families.

Skeeter collects the word of the black maids and writes a book, entitled "The Help".

Like Demott said the idea a individual relationship among blacks and white will erase four hundred years of segregation, oppression and white tyranny, and make-up for any kind of compensation is very wrong, Blacks are still struggling.

One of the main problems of the movie is the caricature made of racism.

Skeeter, is open and intelligent, so opposes to her white superficial and moronic friends, in particular Hilly, the terrible leader of the group.

Deserving of a parody, this stuck middle- class person keeps a strong hand on her small world and dedicates a hatred without limit, to the black maid: measurement of the toilet paper used by its help, petition for the construction of toilet for the employees of color.

While she collect the stories skeeter becomes friend with Aibileen but the fact that any inter-racial relationships were shunned by society left Skeeter and Aibileen no choice but to go about being friends in secret to ensure each others safety.

In one of the first scene where the friendship between black and white is shown to convey that one-on-one compassion can solve the problems of race in America.

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