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The moral integrity that comes across in this novel is so blatant. Skeeter does what is right, no matter what the cost is. She knew there was potential to lose friends and disappoint her mother but she didn't let it stop her. It is too bad there isn't more people in the world like Skeeter.

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A lot of people during that time would not have done the same thing. While reading the book you really get a feel for Skeeter and her convictions and you find yourself rooting for this book and for the stories within the book to come to light. It really makes you wonder where we would be if people like Skeeter didn’t exist. What if we were all flat characters in life? What if none of us had passion, would that level of racism ever go away? Sadly racism will never go away, but at least it has made big strides in the right direction, thanks to people like Skeeter. I have a no tolerance for racism or discrimination or any form. This has been one of my favorite books to read.

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In Skeeter's world she was to just look pretty, be a good wife and just go with the social norms. Those social norms were not acceptable for her. It wasn't her life dream to be a wife, she didn't believe that the maids should be treated any differently than anyone else. Her deciding to write the book was a huge, bold risk. She could have gotten in a lot of trouble for doing that but, she didn't care. She cared about the treatment of the maids and her journalistic hopes and dreams.

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Skeeter also shows a lot of love and emotion.  When she returned home her childhood nanny Constantine was no longer working for the family, but she didn't know why.  This really troubled Skeeter, as she loved Constantine a lot.  When Skeeter found out that her mother fired Constantine, she was devastated.  She told her mother that she broke Constantine's heart.  I felt her writing the book also showed she had love and compassion for all people, not just white people or her nanny, all people.

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Skeeter shows a lot of courage and strength. It takes a strong woman to stand up to her own mother and her friends, especially in the 60's. One day at bunco with all her childhood friends, Hilly one of her best friends is talking about a law she is trying to have passed where the maids will have to use their own bathroom while working. Her reasoning was because "they" carry different diseases than white people. At that moment Skeeter tells Hilly that maybe they should build her an outhouse outside. At that moment I knew I was going to like Skeeter. That took a lot of courage to not only stick up to her friend about something that was going against the social norm but to do it in a room full of people.

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Main characters with complex personalities.

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Skeeter is a round character to the T. On the outside she appears to be just another white woman, and the maids assume she is just like the rest of the white women they know and work for. On the inside Skeeter is much different and she isn't afraid to be different nor afraid to stand up for what she believe in. In the beginning of the story, Skeeter still tries to maintain her friendships with her childhood friends but the more she sees the more she changes. By the end of the book she is no longer friends with them.  The book being written about her friends and stories about their terrible behavior.

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In this story Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan returns home from college, Ole Miss. Skeeter yearns to be a journalist during a time where all women were destined to do was be a wife, sexism. Skeeter quickly begins to notice that there is a separation between and her friends, Skeeter doesn't think how her friends treat the maids is fair, and is the only one of two white woman to feel this way. Skeeter is also up against her mother, who wishes Skeeter would just get married and be a good wife like everyone else does. Skeeter decides she wants to write a book about the mistreatment of the maids and gets the help of twelve maids to help her write it.  The book is written in a narrative form from the maids point of view and published anonymously.

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the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.

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It was hard to write this paper and not address the huge theme of the book, racism. This book is set when racism was still heavily prevalent.  Back when African-American's were suppressed and held to a lower standard than white people.  However, I decided against writing my essay on the historical influences.  I decided to try and make a sad story a positive one by focusing on Skeeter and the kind of character she is.  The world is so negative, I didn't want to focus on the negative aspect, I can read the news for that.

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The help was written by Kathryn Stockett in 2009. The story follows a young, aspiring journalist from Jackson, Mississippi and African American mades working in white households in the 60's era. In 2011, the book went to the big screen.