5 presume to think that I know what it really felt like to be a black woman in Mississippi, especially in the 1960s” (Stockett 451). Moreover, the essay includes a didactic part, which discusses how to teach a novel like The Help in a multicultural classroom. The coloured people are described as the other, whereas the whites are seen as the norm. The novel is an example of narratives of difference and the representation of the characters Miss Skeeter, Minny and Aibileen increases and enhances the differences between people. In order to analyse the novel a postcolonial perspective has been applied. Download The Representation of Three Characters in The Help and more Literature Study notes in PDF only on Docsity!ÜÜ English Level: G3 Supervisor: Anna Greek 2ENÄ2E Examiner: Niklas Salmose 15 Credit Points 23 February 2015 The Representation of Three Characters in The Help - A Patronising Highlighting of Black People Frida Eriksson 2 Abstract This essay argues that The Help by Kathryn Stockett highlights black people in a patronising way.
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