To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee tells the story of a little girl who grew up in a small Southern town in the 1930s and who is faced with daily problems such as racism. and growing up, and Kathryn Stockett's The Help shows the lives of black maids in the 1960s working for white women and feeling the effects of both racism and friendship from them. Despite the fact that the two books are from different time periods, The Help and To Kill A Mockingbird are very similar novels as Celia Foote and Mayella Ewell both come from poor, white families, as both books examine the oppressive expectations of society towards women of that time. era, and because both books show the good relations between whites and blacks who work for them. In both books, there are examples of girls from white families below the poverty line. Mayella Ewell from To Kill A Mockingbird lives in the dirty, rural part of Maycomb County with her foul-mouthed siblings and abusive father. Anyone who lives there knows that “the Ewells of Maycomb lived behind the town dump. » (227). They are too poor to live in a respectable community or even a clean place. It's pretty much the same thing with Celia Foote. By far, Celia comes from the poorest background of all the characters in The Help. When Aibileen learns from Celia that she grew up in a poor Mississippi town called Sugar Ditch, she comments that "the sugar ditch is as low as it gets in Mississippi, maybe in the whole United States...even white children. it looked like they hadn't eaten in a week. (39). His statement that white children even looked like they were hungry, implies that black people living in Mississippi are not prosperous, but growing up in a town like Sugar Ditch and......in the middle of paper ......rk for them. Celia Foote from The Help grew up in one of the poorest towns in Mississippi where everyone was starving, and Mayella Ewell from To Kill A Mockingbird lives behind the town dump with her bawling siblings and father violent. Scout Finch enjoys being a typical "tomboy" and fighting with boys, but her aunt insists that she learn to behave like a real lady so that she can become one. Skeeter Phelan is focused on advancing her writing career, but her mother wants her to find a husband, settle down and start a family. Finally, Calpurnia, Finch's servant, is considered a member of their family and Atticus refuses to fire her, while Lou Anne and her servant Louvenia are close friends who help each other through difficult times, both financially and mentally. A Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Help by Kathryn Stockett