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To Sir With Love - Change
Change: Man's ability to adapt his thinking
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. One example would be my relationship with my older sister. As a
child, I constantly fought with her over everything and never tried tried
to get to understand her. Gradually, though, as I grew older, I learned to
accept and to understand her. Now, though we still argue about a lot of
things, I feel my relationship with her has improved and I am beginning to
understand her. This has taken a complete change in my way of looking at
her;I now look at her as a nice person with much to offer me, rather than
as my evil sister.This has been a true example of my being able to change
my way of thinking towards an individual. The concept of man being able to
alter his ways is a crucial element to his living in a society such as ours.
All of us must learn to accept individual hardships, and all of us must be
able to adapt to our ever-changing world. World leaders must adjust their
way of thinking about an evolving third world country, or a growing
superpower. An employee must adapt to be able to perform his job adequetly.
All of us have had to gradually adapt in order to live together as a
relatively cohesive, well ordered society. It is clear that nothing remains
constant in our world of change except change itself. It is our ability to
learn and to adapt our ways that has brought humans as far forward as they
are today. As a species, we have gone from living as naked savages to
relatively living as relatively civilized individuals. This would never
have been possible had it not been for our ability to change our ways of
thinking. For humans, then, it is our ability to change that has put us
where we are today and is our key to further advancement, both as societies
and as people.
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