The Help: Comparing The Book And Movie

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The Help, both the movie and the book, take place in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960’s. This story takes place during the Great Depression when African Americans were treated much worse than whites. The book and the movie are very similar but do have their differences. The similarities are mainly in the beginning and middle of both the movie and the film. Some of these are Skeeter was a writer and published a book about the African American help, Aibileen who stands up for herself against her white employer, and Minny who has a surprisingly kind white employer. Skeeter is a journalist in her twenties who gets along with the African Americans. She wants to write a novel about how poorly the black maids are treated and wants to interview

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