The Help

Plot
Kathryn Stockett's The Help is a story about black maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s. It shows the first-person perspectives of three women: Aibileen Clark, Minny Jackson, two black maids, and Eugenia Phelan, the white daughter of the family the maids are employed to. After returning home from college Eugenia discovers how the black maids are treated compared to the white employees. Wanting to write a story about their struggles Eugenia befriends the maids to show that she actually cares and isn't trying to just make money on their lives.