Jared Guhl Box 1188
HUM 2000
Global Perspectives
May 26, 2014
The Help Response Paper
The Help is a 2011 film adapted from a novel by Kathryn Stocket. (Stocket, Kathryn. The Help. New York, NY. Penguin Books, February 10, 2009. Print.). The movie contrasts two cultures: white ‘Southern Belle’ socialite women in the 1960’s American South and the black African-American ‘mammies’ who cook, clean, maintain the household and raise the children of these socialites.
There are several cultural…
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