Let Me Help Humor You

            Though The Help conveys a serious topic, the movie still possesses humor to relieve the audience. One of the most memorable moments from the movie The Help, is when Minny, the best house maid cook, gives Hilly, the elitist socialite, her famous chocolate pie. She gives her the pie to say she is sorry for displeasing her however, she has a sneaky plan of revenge. There was something in the pie that Minny wants to watch Hilly eat, but she was not planning on telling her what it was. However, in the scene she has to tell her and she makes a fool out of Hilly for eating not one, but two slices of her poop. The movie hides Minny's devious story until the middle of the movie and once few characters and the audience know, there is implied humor that ridicules Hilly through the end of the movie.

Minny taking her famous chocolate pie to Hilly's
 house seeking revenge.

          Also represented in the movie is the relationship between Celia and Minny. Celia is an outsider, but her chipper attitude and cluelessness helps the audience fall in love with her. Minny is a sassy African American housemaid, who is the best cook in Jackson and her lines help the audience laugh. In the movie, Hilly treats Celia as an outcast based off of selfish reasons, which causes the whole society not to like her. Celia lives in a typical country-side household and is not useful for her husband; but she does not let that stop her so she tries to hire a maid to help her cook and clean. However, the only maid to accept her job is Minny, because Hilly took away any other job opportunity for Minny after she fired her. Minny teaches her how to cook and to fit better in society, but also she becomes her only friend. The friendship between Minny and Celia creates amusing scenes to show that racism is not always present in the sixties.

Minny is teaching Celia how to cook fried chicken and she
 is shaking the batter onto the chicken.

              Humor is further present when Skeeter is trying to find love in her life. Growing up Skeeter was not like most girls who went to college to find a man, she pursues a degree and becomes a writer. When she is back home, her mom and her supposed friends try throughout the movie to get her in the dating field. Her mom wants her to find a man before she died and would try desperately to dress Skeeter up to be presentable for a man when Skeeter did not care. However, Skeeter did not believe she needs a man in her life and on her first date she is still not impressed when she meets Stuart. The movie emphasizes that she does not date much and that she is particular in what she wants in a man. So when things are not going smoothly on the date she begins to mock him and he retaliates. Since Skeeter is someone who likes to speak her mind, she never found love in the movie, but the force attempts to find her a husband creates humor for the audience.




Skeeter on her first date with Stuart and she is not impressed