Summary
They answer doors, cook and serve meals, change diapers and raise children for parents who are, supposedly, too busy to bother. They do this with an air of invisibility, ignored except when they're being snapped at.
And through it all, "The Help" have to maintain a silent stoicism, even when their white employers in 1960s Mississippi mutter about "the colored situation," even when they blurt out the most ignorant and hatefully callous remarks. ("They carry different diseases than we do.")See the full content of this document
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Review: 'The Help' Digs Into the Gray Issues of Civil Rights
"The Help" is that rare civil-rights melodrama to tell its story from the point of view of faceless, almost anonymous bl...
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