Elie Wiesel's The Help

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The Help illustrates the time period in which post-modern social literature flourished. The movie shows the discrimination and prejudices against African-Americans in the late 1960’s. The main character Skeeter begins to write a book from the viewpoint of the black maids who work, in harsh and unjust terms, for wealthy, upper class white couples. During the events of the movie, we see that the maid are responsible for the entire upbringing of the white couple’s children, and works under conditions that border on slavery. One of the main characters name Skeeter who was brought up by a black maid is writing her first book about what’s happening during the 1960’s time period. Which her book shows an example of post-modern social literature because she writing…show more content…
Postmodernists use the term historicism to describe the view that all questions must be settled within the cultural and social context in which they are raised. Skeeter changed the names of the maids that she interviewed in the story to protect their identity because they can get in trouble for being involved in writing the book about the differences between the white and the black racists and how the social lives aren’t fair. Skeeter focuses on this issue in the social structure of Jackson. That reflects the trend in literature of that time because the black maids mostly raise the white couples children and they can’t even sit on the toilet to pee. Mostly everyone is treated unfairly in the movie The Help. Especially the maids, it’s not fair for the maids to be treated like there worthless and don’t do anything when they do everything around the house
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