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In 1962 Jackson, Mississippi there were three regular women about to take an incredible step to overcome racial segregation.
The main topic of my book is racism and prejudice.
Segregation definition: "The institutional separation of an ethnic, racial, religious, or other minority group from the dominant majority"-Dictionary.com
Aibileen is a black maid that is now raising her seventeenth white child.
Minny is Aibileen's sassy and independent friend who is not afraid to talk badly about her employers.
Racism definition: "A belief that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has he right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others"-Dictionary.com
Miss Skeeter is a white socialite that has just returned from college ready to write her first novel
Archetype #2: Good Vs Evil
Connection to book
The movie i chose is The Wizards of Oz
There are two good witches and two evil witches
Jim Crow Laws
Archetype #1: The mother figure
A female character that helps guide a child
The help got paid a signifacant amount less than whites. Ex. Minny gets paid 1-2 dollars an hour.
The entire point of racial sergegation was so that the dominant group (whites) could maintain an advantage economically.
The evil witches demand power and treat there people terribly.
The good witches help Dorothy find her way home and help the other characters to find their true potential
Glinda the good witch directed Dorothy on which path to take
Jim Crow Laws affected every way a black person could live there life Ex. Constantine told Miss Skeeter not tell anyone that her father was white because she could have been killed.
Whites and blacks lived completely seperate from each other.
In the book, a little boy was blinded because he accidentally used the wrong bathroom.
In The Help, Aibileen helps to improve Mae Mobley's self-esteem by telling her "you a smart girl. you a kind girl." . (Stockett 107)
In The Help Miss Hilly is doing her best to further segregate the help by attempting to create coloured bathrooms inside each house "as a disease-preventative measure". (Stockett 10)
Places that catered to whites were significantly nicer than spaces that catered to blacks.
The black libraries had damaged and vandalized books while the white libraries had books in good condition and in multiple copies.
While Miss Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny are opposing her by writing a novel that mocks Miss Hilly's ignorance.