"The Help" Assignment

                   THE HELP ACTIVITY
We watched in class the movie "The Help" for undersanding in a better way the context of "To Kill a Mockingbird" and understand the live in that times. Now I will answer a few questions about the movie.
1. In your own words, write what was meant by "separate but equal." How did people in Jackson, Mississippi - including the ladies of the Junior League in "The Help" - try to apply this principle?
I think it was its a phrase to describe the situation at that times. White people now accepted that black people have some rights as humans. But they cannot accept them to live together, that´s why they have the same things but separated.
2. Do a simple online research about Jim Crow Laws. Identify what outcomes - forced upon domestic workers - were present in "The Help".
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans. The separation in practice led to conditions that tended to be inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages. De jure segregation mainly applied to the Southern United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws
  I think that practical conditions of black people considered inferior and being constantly discriminated, forced domestic workers in the movie to do things against white people that took advantage of this laws.

3. Explore the themes in "The Help" and develop your ideas by continuing the following sentence:

The theme that I most liked of the movie is the "atittude of taking risks" by the maids of the movie. Even in the situation of being killed they take the risks that are necessary to do what they want in their lives, this aspect is important always in every sense of life.