Mississippi Trial Book Analysis

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The novel “Mississippi Trial, 1955” shares similarities with the film “The Help” in a couple of ways. Both book and film share some aspects of characters personality such as, Hiram Hillburn from the novel and Skeeter from the film. In addition they both are in a similar time event of what was happening in the world. As in both, film and novel, they are talking about how racism was a very bad thing, especially with the blacks. So would you ever wonder with the mindset you have today would you have been, or could have been the one to make a change or even stopped what was going on? How and why? The purpose of this essay is to explain how the book “Mississippi Trial,1955” and film “The Help” characters have in common. The characters Hiram ( Mississippi Trial, 1955) is a 16-year-old boy that visited his grandpa every summer. Hiram is uncomfortable with both, his grandfather and father view on civil rights and on black people. But he genuinely likes a boy he meet named, Emmett Till, and is shocked and saddened by his abduction and murder. Hiram has a difficult time on being …show more content…
But both authors asserts that they are taking place in Mississippi and in the time of racism. So in the novel “Mississippi trial 1955” the character Hiram shares similarities with the film “The Help” character Skeeter because they can relate as being white and understanding what is going on how hard the world is at the moment. Hiram was a white boy that made friends with a black boy named, Emmett Till, they were both visiting their relatives. It seemed weird that they were friends so Hiram wouldn't really hang out with him in public. Emmett one day stood up for himself and spoke disrespectfully to a white woman which caused his murder. Emmett does not understand his "place" in the South as it was different for black people in the North than it was in the South (Mississippi Trial

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