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Constantine, the maid who had raised her; and Constantine, in her turn, had always loved the girl., we see the complexity of the relationships of blacks and whites of that time, because these relations were not always full of mistrust, hate and abuse - there was also love, attachment and care present.my opinion, hatred and disgust that maids could feel towards their owners is evident. No one would like to be deprived of his basic rights and be abused by immoral heartless people like, for example, Hilly. I can hardly imagine the feelings of black people who were considered second-class people without any reason, but were so oppressed and scared by the society that they could not dare change anything.hatred that white women could feel towards black ones can be, first, simply explained by their disgust towards blacks; and, second, by their subconscious jealousy towards them, because those white women lacked the qualities that black women possessed - ability to love truly and unconditionally; courage; integrity. For example, maids raised white children, treating and loving them like their own. The relationships of Constantine and Eugenia, Aibileen and Elizabeth’s child prove it. Of course, children were attached to the maids who replaced their mothers. Seeing this, careless mothers felt jealous and began treating the maids even worse.way blacks and whites interpreted the Bible in the movie also reveals the true nature of both of them. Aibileen heard in God’s words an inspiration to help her fellows; it gave her courage to risk everything she had. However, there was an instance, when the words of the Bible were twisted in a way that basically denied the whole morality of help, compassion. When Hilly was asked for a loan by her maid Yule May Crookle, she answered: «As a Christian - I’m doing you a favor. God doesn’t give charity to those who are well and able. You need to come up with this money on your own. Okay? You’ll thank me one day.» First of all, Yule was not asking for charity - she was ready to work for this money. Second, wasn’t it exactly the way for her to come up with money on her own? Third, even if God does not give charity to those who are well and able, it does not mean you shouldn’t do it either, moreover when you have an opportunity to help a person, who is not really well and able., not all the relationships were negative, as I have said, as there were white people who were kind and attentive to their maids and whites who fought for the rights of blacks.other issue the whole movie is based upon is gender discrimination and feminism.general, in the 1960s the «white» society of America was still quite patriarchal and androcentric and the movie «The Help» shows it very vividly. Men worked, women stayed at home and gave birth to children. Such women spent most of their time gossiping. In spite of the fact that they had maids, skills of housekeeping were very appreciated by men and it was still considered to be a standard kind of occupation for a woman. For example, Celia asked Minny to teach her some techniques of cooking, because she wanted her husband to know she could do it on her own.«Hilly’s» society possesses many traditionally feminine characteristics: they gossip about each other, jealousy and pretence dominate in their relationships. For instance, Hilly apparently envied Celia, because she lacked the qualities Celia had: beauty, charm, kindness, sincerity and compassion. Everybody knew Hilly hated Celia, because Hilly’s rich ex-boyfriend Johnny married Celia. When one of Hilly’s friends reminded her that she could have been Johnny’s wife, she pretended that it didn’t touch her, saying: «And live 30 minutes outside of town? No, thank you». But her facial expression and actions towards Celia spoke of the different: she would give up everything to be Johnny’s wife and get his money. Stuart Whitworth, whom Skeeter dated, once uttered a phrase, which very precisely described the women of «Hilly’s» society: «Girls major in professional husband hunting». This thought can also be illustrated by the behavior of Eugenia’s mother: almost throughout the whole movie she was trying to arrange Skeeter’s private life, completely ignoring her desire to have a career first, not a husband. So, Stuart’s phrase can be applied to the majority of the white women, as we see it in the movie.for the «black» society - it was characterized by gender discrimination: from the movie we learn that Minny is abused by her husband Leroy, because he was fired after what Minny had done to Hilly. Also he made their daughter quit the school to help him pay the bills. So, obviously, he was dominating in the family, in spite of the fact that Minny seemed to be strong both emotionally and physically., right in the 1960s there emerged a second upsurge of feminism and we can see some influence of it on the «white» society. Women begin participating in the social life, for example Hilly promotes new projects concerning segregation. They drive cars and smoke, which had always been men’s characteristics.character of Celia Foote is at the same time purely feminine, as I have already said, but at some moments she strikes with her masculinity. Without any confusion or hesitation she kills a cock for diner by herself. Even for Minny, who was not that soft and delicate, it was not so easy to look at that scene. Besides, Celia, after several miscarriages, had to bury her children by herself, concealing it from everybody. It is very unusual even nowadays for a woman to bear something on her own, without sharing her emotions and feelings with anyone., it is the character of Eugenia Skeeter who represents an embodiment of all the characteristics of a feminist.action of Skeeter shows her as a non-conformist in everything.of all, she is not striving for having a rich husband and giving birth to children. She wants to be a professional journalist or writer. But nobody