Minny carrying her pie, behind Hilly and Missus Walters in The Help (2011)
AQA (A): Paper 2 Modern times: comparative set text
The Help tells the story of itself. Skeeter, a privileged young white woman from America’s deep South, persuades some of her town’s harassed black servants to contribute their memoirs to a book which becomes a bestseller. It plays odd games with history, implying that a book very like itself had a beneficial effect on the real world of 50 years ago.
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