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To sir, with love
THE Novel "To Sir, With Love1' is a novel written by E.R. Braithwaite. The book basically portrays various human characteristics, of which, the idea that humans are able to adapt and change their way of thinking seems to be the most prominent one. In the novel, both, the teacher, Braithwaite, and his students end up going through many changes that ultimately result in their coming to change their way of thinking about each other. In life, as in this fictionalized account, the ability to adapt to the world around one's self is a very important trait.
It is an unbelievably inspiring story. E. R. Braithwaite captures the shame and hatred of prejudices and racism. The journey begins in the East End of London, during the 1940's. Mr. Braithwaite teaches at Greenslade Secondary School, which is surrounded by poor neighborhoods filled with social vermin. Rick Braithwaite is a young black man, born in South America, who just got out of the Air Force. Now in Britain, Braithwaite's looking for a career, niainly to pay for food, but things don't work out as planned. He came to know the virus of prejudice very well, as he was turned down from job after job. Teaching became the cure to set him free.
In the story, Braithwaite begins with a set of preconceived ideas about his students. He expects them to be unintelligent, rough, racially intolerant children with no future-hardly deserving of his respect But, as he sees later, they are the total opposites of his initial
ideas. Mr. Braithwaite begins "learning from them as well as teaching them." The class may have problems in their home lives, but when they enter the classroom, Mr. Braithwaite joins them on a journey to adulthood. The students ask many questions, which allow them to acquire the knowledge they deserve. On occasion the questions touch upon people of different races, and Mr. Braithwaite gives mature answers, and speaks to them as adults. Braithwaite's theory is to treat his students older than they are so they will behave more grownup. With a teacher who respects his students, they, in return, accept him and honor him with the courtesy of "Sir".
Under his guidance the class also learns to respect each other as human beings and not be prejudiced against each other because of social status or skin colour. This is gradually shown through their actions, such as the students all going to visit the house of their black friend during his crisis, or their learning to address each other by their last names, in the case of the boys, and "Miss", for the girls.
Braithwaite helps them to break out of the pattern of intolerance and roughness into which society had placed them. They began to respect themselves and then to respect others. In short.
it was obvious that both the teacher and his students were able to change their way of thinking; they did not get stuck in their original set of preconceived notions about each other. This is a key point of the novel; this idea that people can change their ways.
The message that the writer tires to convey to his readers through this book is that the concept of man being able to alter his ways is a crucial element to his living in a society such as ours. And along with that, everyone must lean to accept individual hardships and adapt themselves to their ever-changing world.
I would recommend this book to all those readers who like to get different insights into life, and like reading deep, well-thought out books, because this book certainly qualifies in that category.
I think anyone who reads this story will walk away with a broader view on life and how he or she lives it. The quotes Braithwaite uses will realty make you think, and his words will stay engraved in your mind. However, for those readers who do not enjoy books such as I have just described, then unfortunately this is not the book for you, so I would not recommend it to you all.
By Rohini Alamgir