Educating Rita

what did Trish say-? More resonant.” (75). Rita is telling Frank what she thinks of his poetry, but instead of using her own words and expressing her own views, she simply repeats what her peer has said about the poems. Her relinquishment of her true beliefs is a way of conforming to expectations of the educated class and an illustration of loss of freedom in life. We also see Rita abnegating her disposition when she hands in an essay to Frank and his first response is “There is nothing of you in there.” (69). Frank acknowledges the fact the inclinations that she is expressing are not her true opinions, and education is the cause of her imitative assessments. Education turns out to be another form of limitation for Rita, instead of a practice of freedom. Education becomes an instrument of confinement for Rita by making her believe she has to denounce her corollaries. Education did not only cause Rita to repudiate her ideas, it became her means of conforming to the social standards of the educated class.

Transitions are never an easy thing to conquer. It is often hard and stressful to cope with changes to one’s surrounding, but in the cases in which one manages to conquer this obstacle, elevation of knowledge and experience are great results gained from this achievement. I originally came from Africa and recently moved to the United States to join my mother and my step father. This great change in the things I had become accustomed to in my daily life was not easy, furthermore taking into account the fact that I had never experienced a transition so little as shifting from one residence to another.

‘An individual’s interaction with others and the world around them can enrich or limit their experience of belonging.’

Life is what you make it as we go through life’s journey. We all have different experiences that are unique to us individually. “Life is not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.” - Virginia Satir. There are typical aspects of our journey that are similar, but different; we share commonalities along the way with others. In life, we will face challenges that bring about change, which is what happens to us along the way when we are younger, and it makes us who we are when we are older. Change is the opposite

This passage really struck a chord with me as I was reading. Here, Antonio goes to school and learns that its is a place where not everybody fits in like they fit in at home. Unlike his spanish-speaking home, he learns that the world is a place where not everyone thinks and acts the same. Throughout his first day of school, he felt sad, lonely and pensive

Analyse how this idea has been represented in your prescribed text, “Looking for Alibrandi”, and one related text of your choosing.

One unique feature of Hightower article involves a third person perspective shifting to a first person perspective, illustrating the incapability of having a growth mindset. From paragraph one to five, Hightower write in third person to indicate that the subject, a fixed mindset, is not

"Educating Rita" illustrates this concept in a more developed manor, in stark contrast to the "John Carter Interview" as Rita's personality is changed due to her intellectual growth, "Rita? (She laughs) Rita? Nobody calls me Rita but you. I dropped that pretentious crap as soon as I saw it for what it was.

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” Born and raised in a box where everyone knows everyone means that there’s always “go to” places. As we grow out of cleats and place dolls in the attic, the giant wooden obstacles that you know every nook and cranny too are now just tired playgrounds filled with new children left to discover those hidden spots. The man made lakes that left the smell of sweet summer and chlorine lingering in your hair and skin are now rain puddles. Places from childhood form who we are and create everlasting friendships but over time, as the leaves change in the seasons so can we.

is not quite good enough. Rita wants to be of a higher status than her

These obstacles that she experiences and overcomes contribute to who she has become. At the beginning of the novel, we see Rita as sort of a bogan. She doesn’t really have manners, she's always barging into Franks apartment without knocking, and her speech is just slang, ‘y’know’? Despite all this, she has made her own decision that she will come and be tutored by Frank. The purpose of Rita’s role in the play is to show the audience how important education is and despite class or gender, every person should have access to it. As a part of her transformation, Rita changes her name back to her original name, Susan. This is a symbolic part of the play as it shows us that she has now found who she truely is, and the name change signifies that. Didn’t think of it that way

In the novel Educating Rita you see how a person can transform, from a person who can´t find herself to a person who gets more independent and know who she is and how to be glad about the person she has become. The novel is written by the author Peter Chepstow and is a novelized version of the screenplay by Willie Russell.

a film in 1984, it was so good that it received a Bafta for best film,

Willy Russell 's Educating Rita 'Educating Rita ', a sensational, dramatic, however, consistent with its passing on of a ladies ' regular quandary composed by Willy Russell - passing on his illustration of life in a manner that which the audience can appreciate from. A woman in her late twenties, Rita, is shown to be struggling with the basic things a regular woman counter every day and the major phases of life as she becomes 'educated ' and sets herself ‘free’. The main theme of this play is CHANGE. “The door swings open revealing Rita” as thing young women coming in swearing, shining all attention towards herself, which is where Russell want to focus in giving Rita, this symbolic entrance. She comes in as this exuberant, eloquent yet not so quite eloquent and this ‘breath of fresh air’ in Frank’s life. Here we have Franks dead life wasted in “a bottle of whiskey” which is then enlightened by Rita’s refreshing energy. Rita here, without quite any acknowledgment of her surrounding comes in as a Bedouin seeking for her passport to ‘freedom’ – education, In an Open University even though she undermines the university by referring the other universities as where “proper students” go and the degree described as “Degrees for Dishwashers”. She is portrayed as a pessimist towards her life, like Franks ‘empty mug’- that nothing good will fill up her existence. She sees this degree as a ticket to a way out of mediocre and into a new social class; in to the world of respect,

“ If you want to change, y’ have to do it from the inside, don’t y’? Know like im doin” declares Rita in act 1 scene 1. How does the playwright show the changes in Rita, and in her tutor Frank, in two key scenes of the play (1.6 and 2.3)