The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Friday-Monday 1/6-1/9
Three Hours
Pages 1-432
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In this story, the ethics of humans are questioned. The white people are held above the colored very clearly. Skeeter, one of the main characters, even talks about the invisible lines drawn. The boundaries between the white and the colored, the boundaries between the League members and not, the women and the men. However, she also mentions how these lines do not exist and how they are only created when believed in. This shows how though the white women and many colored folk believe in the racial divisions, they aren't real unless you believe they are.
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According to today's society rules, there are many rules involving the colored folk. First off, according to Miss Hilly's Home Sanitation Initiative, colored folk have to use bathrooms outdoors because of their "diseases". Second, colored folk are expected to not get jobs other than house care and brute work. And finally, colored folk are under the causcasians. Meaning, not good enough to go to the same schools. Same jobs. To be friends. It was all part of the rules, and the rules are morally wrong in my opinion.
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