Character Analysis Of The Movie To Sir With Love

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In the Movie to Sir with Love II we follow Mr. Thackeray (Sir) on a journey as he decides to go to an inner-city Chicago school where he will be teaching once more. He then meets up with an old friend and former colleague Horace who is the principle of the school. Sir then selects a classroom full of hoodlums, ruffians, and any other word used to describe ill-mannered juveniles to instruct. The students are dastardly and don’t appear to have even the slightest amount of respect for anyone. Sir addresses this issue by teaching the delinquents self-respect and respect for others. He soon becomes closer with his students and plenty of unfortunate events occur with a specific student. All in all, everything works out in the end and the students graduate. Sir decides to stay in Chicago to teach the next up and coming line of students. To Sir with Love II The character development in this movie is astounding, when I was first introduced to the students in the classroom I despised all of them however as the film We are so quick to judge and stereotype that most people to do not even get a chance to prove those who judge wrong. We classify people like the students in the movie based on what we see on the outside; their actions. Many of us fail to look further or even interact with those we deem non-negotiable to discussion. Depending on the actions of a person most stereotypes are put in place to gather attention, for an example; a child who was neglected by his or her parents may pull pranks and get in trouble on purpose to receive attention. In a way this is a gateway to a stereotype. This kind may be damaging for it can cause others to overlook the one suffering from the stereotype even more making them even harder to approach. The best I believe the vast majority can look beyond stereotypes is by being patient and allowing the person to prove that they are not what they

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