Mans Ability to Adapt as Evidenced in To Sir With Love :: Movie Film comparison compare contrast

Mans Ability to Adapt as Evidenced in To Sir With Love   In the novel To Sir With Love various human characteristics argon portrayed. Of these, the idea that humans argon able to oblige and change their port of thinking seems to be demonstrated throughout the story. In the novel, both the teacher, Braithewaite, and his students cease up going through some 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 ones 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 deserv ing of his esteem. 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 drear friend during his crisis, or their learning to treat each other with respectthey learned to address each other as their last names, inthe facial expression 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 hardened 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 advantagethey did not stick stuck in their original set of preconceived notions about each other. This is a key point of the novel, t his idea that people can change their ways. In my own experiences, I have ended up changing my ways as I have become wiser.