The Help (2011) — What gives Aibileen the courage to shout

A black nanny whispers ?You is Kind, You is Smart, You is Important? | lifegiva

In the movie ?The Help (2011)?, A black nanny whispers ?You is Kind, You is Smart, You is Important? to a white kid sitting on her lap, holding her small hand, and looking at the stray pupil. Nanny Aibileen Clack wants the baby, Mae Mobley, to keep in mind that she is kind, she is smart, she is important. So that, she can cleaved her way through obstacles.

Change begins with a whisper ?The Help (2011)? | DreamWorks

Aibileen is an African-American maid living in Jackson Mississippi. She cares for Elizabeth?s daughter, Mae Mobley, whom Elizabeth herselr doesn`t treat well. ?You is Kind, You is Smart, You is Important? that Aibileen tell Mae Mobley is not only for the white baby child herself, but also for us the audiences watching this movie and also for the black nanny herself. This movie ?The Help (2011)? is about the change that begins by repeatedly saying the phrase ?You is Kind, You is Smart, You is Important?.

Skeeter?s friends can?t understand why Skeeter never get married | DreamWorks

The year 1963 was the last year of the young president, John F. Kennedy, and a period when Martin Luther King was present. In the southern US state Jackson Mississippi, white people kept black housekeepers and lived with them. One of the white women named Skeeter doesn?t care about meeting men but wants to work solely from her own ability. She is different from her white friends whose goal of life is marrying well.

Skeeter meet black maid Aibileen to get advice | DreamWorks

After graduating from university, Skeeter starts working for a newspaper company. However, men make up the majority of those working for the newspaper. Her boss often overlooks her ability. She is talented but is just the one who ghostwrites famous housework columnist.

Skeeter meet black maid Aibileen to get advice | DreamWorks

However, Skeeter is grown up with the black maid so she doesn?t know anything about the housework. So Skeeter meets Aibileen, her friend Elizabeth?s housekeeper, to get advice. Talking about the housekeepins work, Skeeter becomes interested in Aibileen?s life being discriminated against others because of her race. She feels uncomfortable with the racist attitudes of her friends towards their maids. She could share maids? hard life, because she is also discriminated against because of her gender. At that time, Skeeter didn?t do anything for the housekeepers.

Constantine is a mother, a sister, and a best friend of Skeeter | DreamWorks

However Skeeter later learns that her mother fired her childhood maid Constantine for unknown reasons, and she can?t hold back this situation. Constantine is more than a nanny for Skeeter. She is a mother, a sister, and a best friend of hers. When Skeeter felt frustrated because of talking behind her back about her boyish acts, Constantine told her, ?Am I gonna believe all the bad tellings people say to fool me?? This sentence gives Skeeter the courage to overcome gender discrimination. She wants to give black housekeepers courage to overcome racial discrimination too.

Nannies in Mississippi are afraid of retribution from their employers if they write a book | DreamWorks

Skeeter persuades Aibileen and other nannies to reveal this unfair society in the book, but the housekeeper?s fear of retribution from the maid?s employers hinders others from joining the book project.

Aibileen is a smart person, but she also knows that she has to hide her cleverness | DreamWorks

In fact, Aibileen is a smart woman and good at writing. She writes a diary every day. However, she knows that she will be threatened when she reveals her cleverness, because she is a black person and her fate is to live as a housekeeper. Nevertheless she wants write a book about her mississippi life this time.

Minny is using the guest?s bathroom not maid?s bathroom | DreamWorks

Nothing will be changed without doing anything. One day Minny Jackson, Aibileen?s best friend, refuses to go out to use the maid?s toilet and uses the guest?s bathroom. This results in getting fired by Hilly, Minny?s employer and the leader of the women?s socialite group in Mississippi. Skeeter was shocked when Hilly sends a letter to the home sanitation initiative to install separate bathrooms for the help.

Minny made a poo pie for Hilly | DreamWorks

Minny joins in the book project of Skeeter and Aibileen. Minny then tells the ? terrible and awful thing? that she did to Hilly, Minny?s employer. Following on her termination, Minnybaked her renowned chocolate pie and gave it to Hilly. Minny revealed that she baked her excrement into the pie. The book is published anonymously, and it gained a huge success.

The book is published anonymously, and it gained a huge success | DreamWorks

I wonder how this sweet revenge could be so successful. Need I say, housekeepers were keeping silence due to the fear of retribution from the maid?s employers. What gives them a courage to revenge then? I find the answer from ?You is Kind, You is Smart, You is Important.?

?Hey, Aibileen! You is Kind, You is Smart, You is Important!? | DreamWorks

Even if they get hurt on their self-esteem with some bad words from their employer, Aibileen and Black housekeepers know that they are a precious being. They do not get hurt at all and they have a courage to plan a revenge at any time.