The video shows the daily struggles of black maids in the South as they raise their boss's white children while their own children are at home (The Help). The waitresses have some truly heartbreaking stories to tell and conveyed their feelings about racism very well. When one of them was fired for using the inside bathroom instead of the outside bathroom reserved for blacks, he told the story with all the emotion and detail he felt at the time (The Help). This made the film very touching and tear-jerking. This emotional aspect was not present in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and therefore the audience did not feel connected to the characters and their struggles. By feeling what the characters feel as they experience this amount of hatred and oppression, viewers seem to understand how harsh the conditions were. The video is also from the adults' point of view and this makes the stories more reliable. A grown adult is more likely to understand racist situations when they occur better than a child. For example, white women make a lot of subtle, sarcastic comments to waitresses, and a child simply wouldn't be able to understand it (The Help). Maya is able to tell the audience about her experiences with various controversial events, but the women of The Help are able to show racism through everyday conversations because that's where most of the insults happen. It shows racism as an aspect of everyday life; as if it were as common and natural as washing your hair. This also has to do with the fact that the maids interacted with white people all the time. This abundant amount of interracial interactions gives way to an abundant amount of racism opposed to the few and far between interactions in the novel. The Help simply has more opportunities to make racism present itself and that