Selective about presenting the real picture? Emma Stone as Skeeter Phelan in The Help
Published in 2009, The Help is one of the best-selling books of recent years. Set in the early 1960s in the town of Jackson in Mississippi, in America’s ‘deep South’, it depicts a young white woman, Skeeter Phelan, recording and then publishing the memories and experiences of a group of black women domestic servants. These black servants — Aibileen, Minny, Louvenia and others — are referred to by their white employers as ‘the help’. Like many novels and films that address the issues of race and racism in the USA, the novel is controversial and has provoked widespread debate.
AQA (A): Paper 2 Modern times: comparative set text
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