To Kill A Mockingbird is mentioned a few times throughout The Help. Aibileen requests the book to Skeeter, and asks her borrow a copy from the white library to read. Skeeter reads the book and finishes the book when she is getting ready for her date with Stuart and John Foote is reading the book as well. To Kill a Mockingbird is brought up too many times for it not to have a meaning. The book itself points to the 'good' characters, the ones reading the book but it also shows how blacks used to be treated and the rare occasion when the whites should stand up for the blacks, just like Skeeter does for the maids and how John Foote is accepting and kind towards Minny. Which draws back to the book's reading by the characters linked to being the 'good' characters.
Towards the end of the book, Skeeter identifies herself as Boo Radley, ""I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To Kill a Mockingbird"" (stockett 414). Skeeter compares herself to Boo because both corss the line of whats 'accepted' and 'normal' in their societies. Both also outsiders and are pushed to the side and forced into isolation.
Towards the end of the book, Skeeter identifies herself as Boo Radley, ""I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To Kill a Mockingbird"" (stockett 414). Skeeter compares herself to Boo because both corss the line of whats 'accepted' and 'normal' in their societies. Both also outsiders and are pushed to the side and forced into isolation.
This gif describes the relationship between To Kill a Mockingbird and The Help. Skeeter and the father both stand up for African Americans and see the world in their point of view.