The 1960s was an intense time, practically intolerable for individuals of various social foundations, additionally, what made these circumstances difficult and the going gets unpleasant was the Jim Crow Laws. Jim Crow laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. Black people groups and people that endeavored to resist Jim Crow laws were frequently met with savagery and demise. The tale distributed by Harper Lee in 1960 resisted the laws and pushed to change those laws. To Kill a Mockingbird is a story of the 1960s set in the 30's battling to roll out an improvement to the laws and show individuals what prejudice truly resembled. The principal characters Jem and Scout depicted the characters of honest people. The movie 'The Help' set in the 1960s demonstrates the segregation of individuals with various cultural backgrounds, outlining how individuals acted and why things were expected to improve. Together both the book and the movie show an accurate representation of racism in the 1930’s-1960’s. both characters Scout and Minny showed defiance against racism by standing up to the bully, tom the defendant and Aibileen the maid both spoke the truth although the punishment of death stood right before them and Scout and Skeeter were both educated females in an era that did not respect that.
Ever imagined standing up to the bully, the person who ruined your life, the person who made you cry one day after the other? Scout and Minny Jackson in “The Help” and “To Kill a Mockingbird” both demonstrated acts of courage in the face of the bully. Scout stood up to the grown men who came to lynch Tom Robinson and Minny Jackson stood up to her foul black husband. “Well, Atticus, I was just sayin’ to Mr. Cunningham that entailments are bad and all that, but you said not to worry, it takes a long time sometimes… that you’d ride it out together…’ I was slowly drying up, wondering what idiocy I had committed. Entailments seemed all right enough for living room talk.” This quote shows how Scout stood up to the men despite her knowing what she had truly done. Scout showed great courage in her actions in saving Tom Robinsons' life. Therefore, both Scout and Minny Jackson showed courage in many ways.
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What people say can make a great impact on others' lives, the power in their voices, leaves a mark on every person who hears their story, an imprint. Tom Robinson and Aibileen Clark carry power in their voices that they did not know they possessed. The willpower they used to speak up above others came out from behind all the racism. “Mrs. Leefolt should not be having babies. Put that in the book.” Aibileen Clark shows that she is not afraid to speak up and allow her side of the story to be heard in this quote. 'No such, scared I'd hafta face up to what I didn't do.” Tom Robinson in this scene is afraid of what might happen if he is forced to admit to a crime he didn’t commit openly speaking up to the judge as he says that he doesn’t want to die for doing something that he did not do. Therefore, Tom and Aibileen are characters of truth and wisdom, people who are not afraid to speak up to get the justice they deserve.
Educated females in the 1900’s are a rare sight, in a dark and racist time. Scout and Skeeter were both educated women learning to read before school and pursuing a career in journalism. “I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers. In the long hours of church--was it then I learned? I could not remember not being able to read hymns. Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.” Scout learned to read from her father Atticus but never had she been told by anyone that she was reading incorrectly. Despite this Scout kept reading like she always has which proves how much of a motivated and educated young girl she is. Both characters throughout both the book and the movie show the level they have been educated to. Skeeter attended university while her mother wished her away with a decent husband and kids. Despite this, she continued with the education pathway. The evidence suggests that both characters are highly educated which can be seen through analysis of the scripts of both movies.
To Kill a Mockingbird and The Help both demonstrate what racism looked like in the 1900s, illustrating how black men and women truly felt in a time like this, how alone they were in a racist time.
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