What happened to the perfect husband with the perfect wife and children? Well, let's just say reality has set in. Not all relationships are the same or what they seem. After reading A Doll's House, Thing's Fall Apart, and The Help, it became clear that relationships turn out different depending on how a single person in the relationship acts. In A Doll's House, Helmer doesn't always treat Nora, his wife, the way he should, and in return, she doesn't feel like he really loves her, so nothing goes well. Okonkwo in Thing's Fall Apart sees how his relationship with his father was and realizes that he does not wish to be like that; so he didn't show any emotion to anyone and in turn he can't take it all and ends his life. A relationship that shows how a relationship can become good can be found in the book The Help. In The Help, the relationship Alibeen has with the children she cares for is an example of a good relationship and what it should be like to go well. In the play A Doll's House and the novels Things Fall Apart and The Help, the characters show how one person's actions toward another can significantly affect whether the outcome of the relationship is good or bad. In the play A Doll's House and the novels Things Fall Apart and The Help, characters show how effort put into a relationship or care given to the other person can be reciprocated. In The Help, the characters Alibeen and the little girl she cares for, Mae Mobley, form this. bond that would traditionally be between a mother and her daughter. Alibeen teaches Mae Mobley things a mother looks forward to teaching her daughter. She teaches him how to use the toilet, she teaches him how to be kind, but the most important lesson is that she teaches him at home...... middle of paper ...... Association. Np, March 2011. Web. April 15, 2014. .Karbo, Karen. “Friendship: the laws of attraction.” Psychology Today November 1, 2006. Web. April 15, 2014. .Mattingly, Brent. “How your relationships shape who you are, for better and/or worse.” Science of relationships. Np, April 9, 2014. Web. April 15, 2014..Sarkis, Stéphanie. “7 keys to a healthy and happy relationship.” Psychology today. Np, January 2, 2012. Internet. March 20, 2014..Stockett, Kathryn. Help. New York: The Penguin Group, 2009. Print.