Maid

historical background. First, Skeeter’s actions were restricted by the laws of the specific time period, the 1960’s, as it was illegal for white and colored people to converse outside of an occupation. While interviewing the maids, Skeeter risked injuring both herself and the maids if caught by the police, as she explains, “They’d charge us with integration violation … they despise the whites that meet with the coloreds to help with the civil rights movement,” (Stockett 169-170). In the 60’s,…

paintings exhibiting nudity or using a specific type of clothing to represent the meaning behind their artwork. Johannes Vermeer and Édouard Manet utilize women to portray different lifestyles of a female. The Pearl Earring serves a poor young girl as a maid with a dark blue headscarf and a beautiful pearl earring dangling down to her white collar. As Olympia, she is the typical white, rich girl portrayed nude with; a black servant by her side treating her like a princess. Vermeer uses…

idea that they are what white America portrays them as. A relevant example that describes second sight is the idea of a black maid working for a white family. The maid becomes contempt with being just a maid, and forms the idea that this is all she can ever be. Relating it to society today, a move titled, The Help, was released in 2015. In the movie, African American maids are seen working for privileged white families in Mississippi. While working, the lives of each made are documented and the…

CONNECTIONS REPORT My connection, not giving up, is shown through these four texts: A Knight’s Tale (directed by Brian Helgeland), Gladiator (directed by Ridley Scott), The Help (directed by Tate Taylor) and 127 Hours (directed by Danny Boyle). A Knight’s Tale shows the connection not giving up when the main character, (William, a young squire with a gift for jousting) forges genealogy documents in order to enter a jousting competition. Despite not being a knight, he gains popularity and wins…

Hilly thought it was a peace offering, being delivered from a maid who sassed her. She eagerly ate the chocolate custard pie, without knowing it was a pie full of the maid’s feces. The maid, Minny Jackson, did this in revenge for being fired by Hilly. This action of hate between a white and a colored can definitely relate to the question the book gives, can the barrier that society has made to separate the races be broken down, and can Whites and Coloreds finally get along? Throughout the entire…

Mississippi. As an aspiring author, Skeeter Phelan does not see the world as black and white, but rather focuses her life on justice and equality for all. However, Minny Jackson and Aibileen Clarkson, struggle with their jobs as African-American maids. Minny carries a bad reputation in Jackson, mostly due to the rumors spread by Hilly Holbrook, an influential…

To modernize the Odyssey, I believe that we should have a new, creative movie with a whole different setting and time period. My modern movie proposal is one that includes minorities and a new main character to give the viewers a new adventure to experience that still ties in with the book. The title of this movie is The Underwater Voyage because my movie is focused on the main character’s journey back to her home. This new character is named Odisia, which I hope closely resembles the original…

“So everyone can go to school in America?”, the eleven year old maid at my uncle’s house in Karachi, Pakistan, asks me. Mahera explains how she's always been told she was born a maid, will die a maid, and her future generations will also be maids. Millions of children like Mahera don't have access to education. Her eyes widen as she passionately describes her dream of attending school, a notion that I’ve always viewed as a right instead of a privilege. This was a defining moment for me- I…

The Help, a novel by Katheryn Stockett, is about a group of African American maids and housekeepers that are known as “The Help.” The book starts off in August of 1962 and shows that the Help They work for a group of white women in Jackson, Mississippi. The group of maids consists mainly of Aibileen and Minny at the beginning. Minny gets hired by a women named Celia Foote. Celia has no idea how to clean or cook, so she hires Minny without telling her husband. But, her husband eventually finds…

is the very bottom…”. He explained that if you were colored and lived in a place where white that have money are also living, you were at the very bottom of society, whites basically ruled you. In The Help, discrimination is a huge problem. Black maids that worked for white families were very often mistreated. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the whites often mistreated black men and discriminated against them because they were thought poorly of and it was easy to pick on the blacks because the white…