The Help - dominant and resistant perspectives by Chelsea Mouritz https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2018-06-06 01:17:30 UTC 2025-12-07 22:10:01 UTC hello@padlet.com The Help Perspective - DOMINANT https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265769567 I think that Tate Taylor has expressed his ideas and views of the Jim Crow Laws through the characters. all the characters give the audience a different perspective on different people reactions and thoughts on the Jim Crow Laws in the 1960's. ]]> 2018-06-06 01:28:44 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265769567 DOMINANT bmcvilly https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265769880 Tate Taylor expressed it through Aibileen and Hilly. He is trying to express the racial discrimination forced upon the African Americans during the 1960s. ]]> 2018-06-06 01:31:47 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265769880 American Civil Rights Movement was a very racist period. The Help shows an unjust society. It educates the audience about racial discrimination about social class. Taylor speaks through Skeeter as she is unhappy with this behaviour from her community and takes a stand against this. This was risky, though TAYLOR expresses his opinions creatively throughout the film. chelsea_mouritz https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265769981 DOMINANT]]> 2018-06-06 01:32:13 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265769981 gbearman https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265770121 2018-06-06 01:33:28 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265770121 Taylor's attitudes and values are those of which entitles us to realise there is no difference between the JL and the African American maids in Jackson (1960s). He speaks through Aibileen and Skeeter. Aibileen is a maid and knows how this effects her. Skeeter is stuck in the middle as she wants to see change but doesn't want to get into trouble. chelsea_mouritz https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265770137 DOMINANT]]> 2018-06-06 01:33:35 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265770137 DOMINANT gbearman https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265770158  Tate Taylor uses his immaculate characters and dialogue to convey his important message of inequality in “The Help”. He mainly conveys his message through Aibileen and Skeeter and their story and struggle of making their society aware of the racism and inequality in Jackson, Mississippi. However, he still uses other characters such as the African-American maid society and certain white people such as Hilly, Celia and her husband to convey messages. (All characters are significant in the conveying of this message). ]]> 2018-06-06 01:33:44 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265770158 Segregation is clear. Stereotypes are strong. chelsea_mouritz https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265770390 DOMINANT]]> 2018-06-06 01:35:20 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265770390 RESISTANT https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265770762 Minny and Abileen don't chose to speak up about their rights because they strongly believe they are being treated poorly they only speak up as they know that when the book is published they might make some money from it and are won't have to work again. ]]> 2018-06-06 01:38:07 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265770762 Resistant bmcvilly https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265770989 Skeeter uses the help as a way to boost her own career rather than doing it for the benefit of the help. By publishing the book, Skeeter put Aibileen and the majority of the help in jeopardy, resulting in Aibileen losing her job and Skeeter getting a promotion opportunity. Another negative outcome which arose from Skeeter releasing the book, it meant that the african americans were going against the Jim Crow Laws, which could result in them being sent to jail. It also depicts that the african americas needed to rely on white people to be able to share their stories. The film depicts that the white people were the 'monsters' as such, however, a bad side was never shown from African American people. ]]> 2018-06-06 01:40:00 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265770989 https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265771105  RESISTANT
The fact that the story’s “saviour”, the one white woman that, for whatever reason, isn’t racist, is used as a voice for the maids instead of the maids standing up for themselves in the face of oppression makes the film look targeted and pandering towards a white American audience that want to feel better about the racist attitudes and history of their country.

]]> 2018-06-06 01:41:04 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265771105 DOMINANT emcshane5 https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265771475 It is evident that Tate Taylor feels strongly about the issues that arose in society at that time. He uses well-loved characters to narrate the story and cruel characters who help set the realistic aspect of the society. He ‘speaks through’ the character of Skeeter who is someone that cannot personally relate to the racist actions of the time but has lots of empathy and understanding.

]]> 2018-06-06 01:44:20 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265771475 RESISTANT emcshane5 https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265771579 This film focuses on the point of view of women, there are very few men involved. It would help to see the perspective of men at that time. It also focused on only two African American characters and although they were very good, it would’ve been better to see the point of view from more African American citizens. ]]> 2018-06-06 01:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265771579 Resistant gbearman https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265771607  The fact that there are no opinions shown from the point of view of middle class or lower class white people is discriminatory of the film. Where do these people fall category wise? They’re not privileged whites or ”poor” African-Americans. They aren’t represented, therefore, how can this film be entirely accurate? ]]> 2018-06-06 01:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265771607 RES cmwilliams6 https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265771813 The film portrays the women from the white society as spoilt and close minded, however fails to include the racial hatred that men also have towards the African American maids. In the 1960s, it was not only women that were racist, this film does not accurately depict this. ]]> 2018-06-06 01:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265771813 The Men https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265773096 the absence of men in this film diminishes the influence and power of white male dominance at that time. With the death of Medgar Evans it is clear that there is clear separation between the white men who murdered him and the husbands of the women in the Junior League. Not every man living in Mississippi at the time was part of the Ku klux klan or a racist. But these different types of Men shown in the movie shown a very different side to what was shown in the nightly news footage that we have all seen where countless white men scream and terrorise anyone working towards social justice and human rights. Hilly in the film, known as the hateful antagonist mentions Ross Barnett, the governor of Mississippi , as a someone worth listening to just because he was "the Governor". But he was one of the most hated politicians who strongly supported segregation and ordered the people who spoke up about civiil rights to be sent to prison. ]]> 2018-06-06 01:58:32 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265773096 Conclusion summary 1st paragraph: gbearman https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265773244 Many comments and opinions on The Help as a film have raised over the years. Many comments state that "This is the story people need to know" however the conclusion argues that this story is not one that needs to be known. The message it gives is that it really wasn't all that bad in those days. Sure there were a few horribly racist people but generally white people cared for black people. This wasn't the case. The conclusions argues that the film The Help focuses on the few slightly good things that may have happened in those times but does not equally show the amount of horrific, racist things that occurred and that the African-American women (and men whom were absent) had to endure. ]]> 2018-06-06 01:59:45 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265773244 THE HELP - summary 4 https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265773563 the film suggests that it is the moral obligation for black people to forgive white people for their racism and this in turn lets racists off the hook for their bigotry and allows them to get away with it without ever being accountable for it. ]]> 2018-06-06 02:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265773563 Summary of second paragraph 2/2 ohayes1 https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265773580 Some people say that movies such as "The Help" are trying to normalise the racism that occurred in history, using excuses such as "People didn't  know any better"]]> 2018-06-06 02:02:32 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265773580 Paragraph 4 THE HELP - summary part two emcshane5 https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265773815 This film suggests that African American maids at that time were expected to love accept and cherish white people. This person is suggesting that the film spends more time on the relationship between Aibileen and Elizabeth's daughter rather than her own experiences. ' The message then becomes, “Black women are all of our mothers. They loved that responsibility and took pride in caring for whites.” '. ]]> 2018-06-06 02:04:38 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265773815 Conclusion Group 6 cmwilliams6 https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265774217 The review states that the help overproduced and glamourises the real issues of the 1960s America. The different aspects that make up the film distract from the real problems.

]]> 2018-06-06 02:07:50 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265774217 The help summary 1 bmcvilly https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265775318 The first few paragraphs discuss the evolution of how the story arose. Explaining how Kathryn Stockett, author of the book, grew up in the society where she was in the position that was portrayed by one of the members of the junior league. She wanted to write the story to show her view which is relevant to the events which occurred. By growing up in the 1960’s Stockett had her own maid so she could provide her experiences of what actually occurred. 
In years after the 1960’s more movies started to arise with black people being used as main characters of a film. Whereas before the 1960’s there were only films created which had white people as the main characters. 
Audiences enjoyed movies that showed the ideology of black and white women having diversity between their races and religions. This was shown through past successes of similar movies released prior to the help. Hollywood has stated that audiences of this time have a known love for movies consisting of the saving of black or oppressed women. 
Previous Disney films display the diversity shown in the help. If the movie combined the relationship between black women and white women, it was guaranteed box office gold. 
It briefly touches on the absence of white men, the blind innocence of white women and the obligation of black people to heal white peoples wounds and forgive them. 
]]> 2018-06-06 02:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265775318 group 3 hmanning2 https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265775533 The story leads us to believe that the racism that the women show throughout the movie is no fault of their own but just how things were, it was the norm of that time. She also states that all the racism is shown through Hilly and that the rest of the women such as Elizabeth were just following her lead, if Hilly were to be removed from the film the others wouldn’t be as racist. She also believes that if the book were to be written by a black author or if Aibileen had been the one to publish the book it wouldn’t have been as successful. The book or film would have been labelled as ‘African American Fiction’ or a ‘Black movie’. The author being a white person sells more as it is interesting to see a privilege white person being involved in black things and people. ]]> 2018-06-06 02:17:11 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265775533 summary of second paragraph 1/2 cjones140 https://padlet.com/chelsea_mouritz/bwtitj4aoh5y/wish/265775567  
There was and still currently is a wavering nostalgia for the south. This nostalgia held by white people, where the days of slavery and mistreatment of African Americans has been made to seem like a stain on the clean slate of the south, there is a level of thinking where things were just as simple as it was how it was, and nothing can be done about it. 
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