THE PORTRAYAL OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION REFLECTED BY THE AIBILEEN AND SKEETER IN KATHRYN STOCKETT'S THE HELP

Abstract

This study analyzed about racial discrimination topic reflected in The Help novel by Kathryn Stockett from Aibileen and Skeeter characters. In the past era, black people are the worst. They do not have rights like as white get. The purpose of this study was to show how the racial discrimination happens in Aibileen and her friend as a black help in the white people house. There are some data from the novel to be analyzed with this topic. They are monologues, dialogues, and narration. Those data use descriptive qualitative technique as the method of analyzing. Collecting the data has some steps, the first is reading the novel, indentifying the data, and the last classifying the data. This study shows that black people are the worst at that time, there were no one who can help the condition. Racial discrimination is the topic which portrayed by Aibileen and Skeeter character from The Help novel by Kathryn Stockett. In the pas era, black people have lot of limitation for their rights. As the result, they only can be a help as their profession for the black women. Aibileen is a black help in the white people house. She gets lot of racial discrimination in that house by her boss. In the other hand, there is Miss Skeeter. She is white people who want to help black people. She wants to change something. In the end of this study, Miss Skeeter can decrease racial discrimination that happen at that time through her book. In addition, she gets lot of bad treatment from her white friend because of her defends to black people.
Keywords: Race, Discrimination, Black and white people.