In the movie, Skeeter was unable to find evidence for her book about race relations because the waitresses were too scared to tell her the truth. Contrary to racism in society, Skeeter's book was not well accepted but was rather buried in hatred. In a racist society where whites had more and more advantages, Skeeter was threatened with being "kicked out of society for" trying to change the situation. In the book, through the perspectives of Aibileen and Minny, Stockett portrayed race relations where black citizens couldn't do anything about it, they just accepted it as a fact of life. Minny was helpless in fighting for her right, as an employee, to use the bathroom in a white family home. Aibileen was powerless to fight for justice for her son's death at the hands of white men. Both Aibileen and Minny were powerless to change the unfairness and injustice around them. Even though the movie and book used different narrators to drive the story; both depict the characters' inability to change the racist