Man's Ability to Adapt as Evidenced in To Sir With Love
In the novel To Sir With Love various human characteristics are
portrayed. Of these, the idea that humans are able to adapt and change
their way of thinking seems to be demonstrated throughout the story. In the
novel, both the teacher, Braithewaite, 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. In my own life, this has occured on many occasions. Thus,
it can be said that to be able to change and adapt ourselves and our ways
at looking at things to our to our situations we are truly at advantage.
In the story, Braithewaite 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 are the total opposites of his of his initial
ideas. This is gradually shown through their actions, such as such as the
students all going to visit the house of their black friend during his
crisis, or their learning to treat each other with respect;they learned to
address each other as their last names, inthe case of the boys, and "Miss",
for the girls. For the students,they learned to respect and really learn
from their teacher,something they had never cared to do before.
Braithewaite helped them to break out of the the pattern of intolerance and
roughness that society had placed them in. 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 adapt their way of thinking to their
advantage;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.
In my own experiences, I have ended up changing my ways as I have become
wiser.
... enough contrasts between them that allow them to stand out as completely individual from one another. Each of these novels, then, is able to both expand upon the other, while being free in its own expression at the same time.
Persevering against an old self, that self people are trying to change, will help them achieve their goals.
The first one of these adaptations was conformity. This is the most widely practiced form of adaptation. Conformists buy into the conventional goals of society and they believe they need to work hard in order to achieve these goals. These people strive for success through hard work. Even if they realize that their aspirations may be a little high, they continue to follow social rules (Gomme, 2007) and “grin and bear it” (Winfree & Abadinsky, 2003) the legitimate way. If they fail to achieve their goals, they place the blame upon themselves and still strive harder to obtain
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From the beginning of the novel, we see how separation and distance affect the emotional aspects
We are not only given the thoughts of the character but are also provided with a
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