Kathryn Sctockett, the author of "The Help", wanted to show us in, how the maids expressed themselves, writting in the same way that they spoke. Reading the book, I can notice that they weren't people with highly education. Their lack of knowledge was low, so their language was very informal, that's because most of the black people hadn't the opportunity to go to school. Instead of study, they start to work in early age to survived in this world. They didn't care about the way they talk, a least, they understood what they meant. The most important thing that they had in mind was working hard to get the money to pay the rent, bills, food, grocery, etc.
As we can see, there is this concept of stereotype toward black maids. For example, they don't the same bathroom that the guest use to go. Maids have to eat in the kitchen and not in the dinning room with the white people. They are not allowed to have a intimate conversation with their employers and their friends. They have to treat the white women with "yes ma'am" "no ma'am" and never go against her bosses. In other words, black people are like slaves with a low pay. In the other hand, white people treat those poor black women like a trash, like animals, they don't even care about them. They talk their maids in the way they want to. Because they don't know how to keep the house in order, they are "lucky" to hire maids who do the dirty job. The treatment between white and black women are totally different. They don't mix and they are not friends in the most of cases.
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