10 Facts about the Book

 

10 FACTS

1. New culture

The Help has a lot to say about ignorance, and how quickly it can dissipate when one is exposed to new experiences and different cultures in this specific case about black African people. 

2. Jim Crow Laws

Jim Crow laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. Named after a Black minstrel show character, the laws—which existed for about 100 years, from the post-Civil War era until 1968—were meant to marginalize African Americans by denying them the right to vote, hold jobs, get an education or other opportunities. Those who attempted to defy Jim Crow laws often faced arrest, fines, jail sentences, violence and death. In the book, there many examples of these laws such as bathrooms and books for only colored people that could not be share with white ones. 

3. Importance of the Place 

 The Help is set in the city of Jackson, Missisippi During the 1960s an important point here is that it was the state's capital, and a place known for civil rights activism.

4. Discrimination based on skin color

White people were believed to be of better social and economic condition to the point of having servants of color. The injustices committed by skin color were many and through time some have remained.

5. White Society

It can be seen how among people of the same color they also commit certain cases of inequality, money for many people is synonymous with superiority in every way and selfishness is seen in every aspect.

6. Everything has its moment.

The maids were already tired of the injustices and of remaining silent in these situations, thanks to Skeeter, they can express what the life of a maid is like, the pain and suffering on the part of her masters.

7. Talking about what is wrong in society is the only way to fight to change it.

8. All children need someone to love and teach them.

9. Courage and bravery

We can notice along the story that the maids never gave up upon their dreams despite their posición in the society of that time, also that as women they had the power to change their reality to a better one by loosing the fear and writing their stories in a book that would help them to change their lives. 

10. Racial segregation 

Crossed stories focuses on the racial conflict that took place in the US during the 1960s. The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a long struggle so that all the oppressed (mainly black citizens) could fully access civil rights and thus once and for all end racial segregation.