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To Sir, With Love, by E. R. Braithwaite
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“Moving and inspiring. . . . A book that the reader devours quickly, ponders slowly, and forgets not at all.” —The New York Times Book Review“Fine, and genuinely touching.” —Caryl Phillips
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About the Author
E. R. Braithwaite was born in British Guiana (now Guyana) in 1912. Educated at the City College of New York and the University of Cambridge, he served in the Royal Air Force during World War II. Braithwaite spent 1950 to 1960 in London, first as a schoolteacher and then as a welfare worker—experiences he described in To Sir, With Love and Paid Servant, respectively. In 1966 he was appointed Guyana’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations. He also held positions at the World Veterans Federation and UNESCO, was a professor of English at New York University’s Institute for Afro-American Affairs, taught creative writing at Howard University, and was the author of five nonfiction books and two novels. He passed away in 2016 at the age of 104.
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Product details
Paperback: 232 pages
Publisher: Open Road Media; Reprint edition (January 14, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1480457515
ISBN-13: 978-1480457515
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 0.5 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.6 out of 5 stars
178 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#513,078 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
When E. R. Braithwaite died recently (Dec 16 2016) at the age of 104, I realized that I had never read his famous book. I had seen the Sidney Poitier film, but had not read the book. I purchased a copy from Amazon and began to read.One thing I don't remember from the film was how qualified Braithwaite was for a job in science. He had a Ph.D. in physics, as well as extensive experience. His work in his field was interrupted by the war, where he served honorable as an officer in the R.A.F. He expected to obtain a job shortly after mustering out. Instead, he found the doors shut in his face because of racial prejudice. At last, desperate for a job, he took a position as a teacher in a school desperate for teachers.He found the attitude and lack of discipline on the part of the students in the East End school shocking. Slowly, using a combination of respect and discipline, and demanding the same from the students, he transformed a bunch of rowdies into a classroom of respectful students, ready to learn.The book is as much about race relationships as it is about education. Carefully negotiating the minefield of prejudice, his own anger, and closed doors, takes up a large portion of the book. Braithwaite describes the barriers to ordinary transactions such as trying to find an apartment, walking out with his white girlfriend, and ordinary encounters with the general public.The interactions with the students are entertaining, but it is his viewpoint on race relations that make the deepest impression.
Well, I LOVE the movie and picked up the book to see how it compares. I really LIKE the book--which, it turns out, is different but also the same in many ways, as I suppose most movies adapted from books are.I've read that author Braithwaite (who apparently truly was a brilliant and handsome black man, though of course no Sidney Poitier!) didn't like the movie. He found that it didn't focus enough on Sir's romance with a white teacher, a big part of the book, and considered it altogether too sentimental. Both points are valid: Sir and the teacher are just friends in the movie, whereas they become engaged in the book--I suspect that a mixed-race romance was considered too much for audiences a in 1967. And, yes, Lulu's song and the ending of the movie are sentimental but (imho) in a sweet and truly moving way.Changing the time period from the early '50s (when the kids "jive" to jazz) to the '60s (when the kids--and Sir--dance to rock & roll) was a wise decision by the filmmakers.The book is called an "autobiographical novel," which is a little confusing. It reads like pure nonfiction, written in first person by Sir. Braithwaite writes well and effectively conveys a raft of strong, sincere emotions--principally fury and frustration with English-style racism (at a time it was legally to refuse to hire someone only because he's a "Negro") and tokenism (there's a great scene in which Sir refuses to have his photo shot for propaganda purposes). The narrator's openness to new experiences and his love for the working-class kids of the East End also come through loud and clear.The book is an interesting snapshot of postwar East London, a bleak era for most Brits that was even bleaker for the tiny minority population of the time. Some hope for better days shines through, though, even without Lulu's song.It's a pretty quick read that I couldn't put down until the rather abrupt ending.
I must be on a sentimental journey involving some of my favorite films and the books they were based on. First, it was The Shrinking Man, and now it's To Sir, With Love.This time, the book compares very favorably to the movie. In the book, we see everything through the eyes of "Sir" instead of being an outsider-looking-in as we are in the movie. There are several things that were either glossed over or not even brought up in the movie-- in many cases I think the filmmakers wanted the audience to use common sense to realize, for instance, that the reason why Braithwaite could not get an engineering position was due to racism, not the fact that there were no jobs available. In fact, almost everything relating to racism was left out of the movie, no doubt in an effort to make it palatable to the greatest number of moviegoers.My final verdict? I still love the movie starring Sidney Poitier; I always will. But I am very glad that I read E.R. Braithwaite's autobiography. In reading the book I feel as though I've gotten much closer to learning the entire story while the movie gives me the Reader's Digest condensed version.
This is the diary of a Black man after World War II. College educated, from a well-mannered, professional family, Ricardo Braithwaite is from British Guiana. He is in London after serving in the RAF and can't find a job. No one wants to hire a Black engineer. So he takes a job at a rough East End school. At first the students and parents treat him with open racially motivated disdain, but he doesn't take the bait. Instead he behaves with dignity and, to their surprise, treats those who are cruel with the dignity and respect they have never experienced. He is an anomaly to them...a well-spoken Black man who behaves like an absolute gentleman in all situations. He addresses the female students as "Miss". He discusses the real life challenges that these students will face when the graduate. He is unlike any teacher they have ever known.
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