"The Help" (Movie)

To get in context with the book To Kill a Mockingbird, we saw "The Help". "The Help" is one of the most thought-provoking and touching portraits of African-American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s. During that time, the Jim Craw laws took place, making people have many racist tendencies. Some examples of Jim Crow laws are the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. The U.S. military was also segregated. Because of these, people on the movie spoke of separate but equal.

As we saw on the movie, The maids in The Help took a risk by telling their stories. Even though they knew they could be shot to death in their front yards, they went ahead with the project. If people are not willing to take risks, it's very difficult to accomplish any massive project, like writing a book in the 1960's that involves racial issues. People that do not take risks, in most of the time live with regrets for the rest of their lives, because they keep thinking that they could have done it better.