The novel The Help written by Kathryn Stockett, tells a story about black maids working in white Southern homes in the 1960s. Aibileen is one of the African American maids in the novel and she shares her experiences as a person of colour. She expresses the way she feels and how she is treated in the novel. The Help also shows the ways that revolve the segregation and mistreatment of the African Americans that live and work in a white peoples town.
In this picture it represents one of the situations that were happening in 1960s, the time in which the story in the novel was written in. The fountains labeled white and colored are similar to the ones in reality at the time. There was separation of the use of things in public or at home at the time between the people of colour and the whites. White people didn't like to share the things they used with the people of color for many reasons. Some believed they carried diseases others thought really low of them and believed they shouldn't be using the same things as them.
This picture relates to the novel because one of the characters named Aibileen, who faces a situation similar to this related to the use of bathrooms. She wasn't allowed to use the same bathroom as the people she worked for. She would have to go outside to a dirty little place similar to present day portable toilets but wooden, more uncomfortable, and appeared extremely damaged. The picture also shows the fountain of the people of colour, more destroyed and cracked. It also refers to the damaged bathroom described in the novel. Furthermore, Aibileen was accused of carrying diseases just because she was different coloured and an African American.In the end,the picture represents one of the ways white people discriminated the African Americans in The Help.
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