This theme is not explored as much in The Help, except for the scenes of Skeeter growing up with the guidance of Constantine. Growing up, Skeeter also struggled with fitting the ideal feminine picture like Scout, pressured to be 'Miss South Carolina' like her mother.

For Scout and her brother Jem, a year of school is coming to a close. As Scout is walking home from school, she sprints past Mr Radley’s house out of fear of Boo Radley. However, she as she is running Scout notices a bit on tin foil in the knothole in one of Mr Radley’s oak trees. Scout gathers up the courage to take it out; finding two pieces of gum to her surprise. She takes this home, tests if it is poisonous by licking it, and once confirmed that it isn’t decides to eat a piece for herself. Once Jem finds this out, he is outraged and makes her spit it out and then wash her mouth. 

On the last day of school, both Jem and Scout find Indian head pennies in the oak tree. Jem decides to keep the pennies until school comes back around for them, so they are able to ask if someone has lost them. 

As it is summer, it means Dill returns to Maycomb. Jem, Scout and him all join in on games together again. The first game they decide to play is one which involves someone climbing into a large tyre (which was Scout) and rolling down the street until stopped. Jem and Dill continuously push Scout down the street until she is too fast, and in the end stops right outside of Boo’s house. Scout too dizzy to realise; Jem comes to her rescue and making her run away before something bad happens. Jem is made to receive the tyre from the front of his yard. 

Too scared to play again, Jem comes up with a new game called ‘Boo Radley’. As the summer progresses, so does their game, becoming more complex and turning more into a play. Atticus catches them playing the game, and although suspicious, does not specifically ban them from playing the game since it isn’t completely clear to him if it involves Boo Radley or not. 

Atticus is just one of the reasons Scout wants to stop playing them game. Scout also believes that as she landed in front of Mr Radley’s steps, she heard “another sound, so low [she] could not have heard it from the sidewalk.” Scout believes “someone inside the house was laughing.”

Calpurina, who works for Atticus to help care for Jem and Scout, takes a motherly form in the lives their lives to make up for the absence of their own mother due to her passing. Much like the Help, Aibeleen, who is a maid and one of the main characters in the movie, makes up for the Mae Mobley’s abusive mother. Both Calpurina and Aibeleen are paid to help raise the children of their employers and adopt the role of a mother in to try and make up for the absence of their own. “You don’t’n’ I’ll tell Calpurina on you!” was exclaimed by Jem to show that he believes Calpurina is in charge of both of them much like a mum would be. 

As Scout lands in front of Boo Radley’s house, complete fear overcomes her and her brother as they sprint away, even though they have only heard rumours of what Boo Radley is actually like. Even though this isn’t anything to do with racism, it can be related back to the Help much like when it is heard one of the maids has stolen a priceless object from their employers, they completely reject and fear them; determining them as outcasts almost in the white community. These events are significant as they symbolise how rumours can emphasise the way a community as a whole looks at that specific person without actually knowing them. 

When Jem is a very protective figure, making Scout spit out the gum in case if it is harmful to her. “Spit that out right now!” pg. 37. There is a prejudice in young children that they grow up with a lot of rumours around them, Jem has more exposure to Boo Radley and the lies based around what he is like, so therefore he thinks the gum is bad, which influences Scout. In the help the white kids are raised by black people although end up as they grow older hating and despising black people as that is how they are brought up. Society has a bigger affect on kids than what is realised which can influence their thoughts whilst growing up in this environment around them. 

Violence is a theme seen in To Kill a Mockingbird, as Mr. Radley wildly shoots at the intruder in his backyard, as well as when Tom Robinson is murdered. The theme of violence is also seen in The Help when Leroy beats Minny. Political violence is also shown through poorly executed court cases for black people in both productions.