They are shown as being absent or large and dark. The difference is indicated in the way in which black bodies are represented. Here speech becomes an indication of racial difference.
Even though the novel is set in Mississippi it is only the African American characters who use non Standard English. The characters in the novel are divided into different racial camps but their speech pattern reveals the black difference in the novel. In fact, black women know the lives of white women quite well and the lessons were taught to them by their own mothers (39). Aibileen and Minny defy the notion that both black and white women are ignorant about each other’s lives. This novel which became a featured film shows how white women must accept their participation in the indignity of segregation. There are two black narrators which Stockett uses but the lives of black people remain to be marginalised. Aibileen, is a domestic help who works in the house of Skeeter’s friends and Minny, Aibileen’s friend is an outspoken maid.
Skeeter is a young white woman who is deeply rooted in Jackson society and aspires to be a writer. Stockett invents three narrators who weave a story collectively focused on women.
The novel is set in 1962 during the nascent Civil Rights Movement in Jackson, Mississippi. The novel was immensely popular with women. The Help remained a best seller and it was made into a film too. For women of colour the oppression they face is double since it is by men in their own society and also by the white community due to their race. The author dramatizes the problems that black women go through in their day to day life. Kathryn Stockett is an American writer whose book, The Help (2009) has become popular.
She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter. After graduating from the University of Alabama, she moved to New York City, where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. About the Author: Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi.
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