Aibileen's Point Of View

In the book, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, the character Aibileen speaks differently than the "white women" in the book. Stockett uses dialect when narrating from Aibileen's point of view. Aibileen is a maid from the south in the early 1900's. Stockett uses phenetic speech when Aibileen is narrating the book. She doesnt always spell words right. Instead, words are spelt the way they sound and she doesnt speak in proper english. Kathryn Stockett writes this way when Aibileen is narrating because she is writing in character. Throughout the book the author, Kathryn Stockett, writes each charater's dialect differently. For example; Aibileen speaks with improper english and spells words as they sound because she never finished school. For example, in chapter two Aibileen says " Sho Nuff" instead of saying "sure enough."  While Miss. Leefolt speaks in proper english and she spells correctly  because she is a white woman in this time period who had schooling.

In my opinion, I feel Kathryn Stockett is bein stereotypical when she writes from the point of view of her characters. Although many of the colored men and women in the south were uneducated and did not speak in proper english, not all of them were. I feel she made it seem like all maids in the south did not finish school and worked as maids for white women. This was not true about all colored people in the south. Also not all white women or men in the south were educated or lived in nice houses. I feel in a way she did show this aspect because her character Miss Celia shares with Minny that she was from Sugar Ditch which was a poor, beat up town. I feel Kathryn Stockett took a huge risk writing from the point of view of a maid in the south because this is a very controversial topic and everyone has a different point of view on this subject. I also feel that although she did capture the majority of facts about the south in the early 1900's, she was bein stereotypical with her characters and how they spoke throughout the story.