Thesis Exercise

1. The text that I am discussing is the film adaptation of The Help, originally a novel written by Katheryn Stockett.
2. Certain terms and examples will be discussed throughout my work. Some ideas that I will be discussing are focused around the     relationship between black domestics and white families during the civil rights era. The stereotype of a southern black domestic during the early 1960s usually applies the idea that the blacks are unintelligent and it was very dangerous to push the boundaries of segregation for both blacks and whites.
3. The bigger importance of the impact of the representations that I’ve chosen is proving that the black domestics are truly intelligent people who have opinions of their own, and should be treated equally as the whites. What’s the bigger importance of how a community is represented in this text? The community of the south is challenged with the idea of accepting black domestics as equals. In the early 1960s, that idea was unheard of.

Thesis: 

The Help is successful showing that the black women who spend their lives raising the children of prominent southern families are truly intelligent women who are fully capable of being seen as equals.