post #4

The Help

Author: Kathryn Stockett

Some adaptations that would make filming The Help difficult is the setting of the book because the book takes place in the 1960’s so the appropriate houses and stores would need to be used in order for it to seem realistic because the book is all about the perspectives of maids that work for white people.  I think another think that would make the movie difficult to film is the book has three separate perspectives so making sure to focus on all of those separate perspectives would be difficult. 

I think one scene that is essential in this book is when Ms. Skeeter talks about how much she loved her maid (Constantine) and how Constantine raised Skeeter and she was there for her when her mother wasn’t. When Skeeter comes home from college Constantine isn’t there anymore and later on she figures out that her mother fired Constantine. I think another scene that is important to keep in the movie is Minny who is a maid that works for a young lady is not telling her husband that she has a maid working for her because she wants her husband to believe that she can cook and clean.  Minny is afraid for the day that her husband walks in and sees a maid in his house.  I think an important scene to keep in is when the husband comes home and finds Minny cleaning in his house.  Another scene that is very important is when Aibileen decides to help Skeeter by allowing her to interview her on what it’s like to be maid.

I think things that would need to be cut out of the movie would be the scenes when the maids are just explaining their day cleaning at the house they clean at every day or when Minny is teaching Miss Celia how to cook.