Katherine Essay

Katherine is first introduced to us as a child who is exceedingly smart for her age and is solving problems that even adults would never dream of attempting. Much to her teachers delightment, the screens shows Katharine hard at work, chalk in hand, scribbling away at the blackboard. It is mentioned early on in the movie that Katherine can calculate any numbers you put in front her her, there isn't a problem out there she in incapable of solving. She takes pride in informing people, when they underestimate her, that she was the first Negro female student at West Virginia university graduate school. Katherine constantly displays diligence with everything she does and dedicates all her efforts and most of her time towards her job. To me, It is

Despite how vital her calculations are, she is treated abysmally for being a women of colour. On her first day calculating launch and landing trajectories, Katherine asks her white colleague, Mrs Mitchell, the location of the bathroom. She chides back to Katherine: “I have no idea where your bathroom is.” Thus commences what becomes Katherine's ignominious/mortifying daily cardio routine. We watch each day Katherine is forced to dash half a mile, high heels wobbling and stack of papers in hand, to the one dilapidated bathroom she is permitted to use. Determined not to waste a second she continues to work while hunched over the toilet seat. She stays silent about her troubles and keeps her head down while in the office, giving us the impression that she doesn't like to stir up trouble and prefers to keep to herself. As the movie progresses however, it is revealed that Katherine is in fact not afraid to stand up for herself and can get rather sassy when provoked. We first get a glimpse of this side of her when Mr Harrison confronts her about her regular disappearances over the course of the last few days. Deciding that this was her opportunity she has an outburst of indignation that's takes her colleagues by surprise: After this, Mr Harrison proceeds to bash down the two signs separating the white from the coloured people and simply says: “There, now you are free to use any bathroom you want.” This was the

It was a constant obstacle that Katherine had to face, and in order to overcome that obstacle, Katherine soon learned that it couldn't hurt to push the boundaries at times; If Mr Harrison wasn't going to give her what she was after, she knew she had to get it herself. When Jim Parsons - her colleague that can barely tolerate her presence - dumps a pile of confidential papers on her desk ordering her to check the calculations, she notices that his only means of keeping information from her was blacking out the words with marker; Katherine then deviously holds the paper to the light, revealing the information she desired. It appears that there are gaps in the information that Jim failed to fill in. Katherine takes this as an opportunity to prove herself and using the newly found information, completes the calculations on the board at the very front of the class. As a result, Katherine's boss and eventually ally, Mr Harrison, is forced to incorporate her in the more advanced and important workings, knowing that she is more than capable of handling it, however, it doesn't end there; Katherine is persistent and attempts to get her name printed on the reports she types out. Nearly every time she is asked to re-write it by Jim Parsons, until Mr Harrison walks in on one of their argument and takes Katherines side, ordering him to just let her have her name on it. Jim shouts out in protest, although Mr Harrison is not