The Help: Loaded paragraph

It'll be a knock on the door, late at night. It won't be the white lady at the door. She don't do that kind a thing herself. But while the nightmare's happening, the burning or the cutting or the beating, you realize something you've know all your life: the white lady don't ever forget. 
And she ain't gone stop till you dead. 


I chose this line because it has so much emotion, thought meaning, and it sums up all of the inequality and segregation that has ever occurred.

The first line is just stating the facts. It'll be a knock at the door, late at night. But there is also more to it. The simplicity of a knock at the door shows how little of a deal it was for a white person to persecute a black person. How it was just going to their house and knocking on their door. And no one thinks twice. And the line says late at night. This shows the scary aspect to it. How it can happen anytime, with no warning- late at night. And then it's over, and no one says anything of it.

The next lines are It won't be the white lady at the door. She don't do that kind a thing herself.  Which is saying that the white lady is to good to talk to her maid, and too lazy to punish her herself. So she doesn't even have the guts to persecute her maid, and she feels to superior, so she has someone do it for her.

The next line is But while the nightmare's happening, the burning or the cutting or the beating, you realize something you've know all your life: the white lady don't ever forget. This line is so powerful and full of intense emotion and rage. The maid describes this situation as a nightmare. A terrifying dream that you can't do anything to stop and you just have to sit there letting it happen. Then she says the burning. This is the physical abuse that will happen. Using fire for torture, and she can't stop it. The cutting. Using a knife as torture, and she can't stop it. The beating. Using their own physical strength as torture, and she can't stop it. The she says you realize something you've know all your life: the white lady don't ever forget. This implies that as children, they know, that the white lady you work for will hold a grudge forever. She will never stop hurting. Never stop. She ain't gone stop till you dead.