Exposing Dual Oddities In E.R.Braithwaite’s To Sir, With Love

Abstract

Literature drawn from the real life experiences enhances knowledge about the difficulties undergone by different people in different places. Literature thus serves as a tool connecting people all across the world. Literature has always engaged in recreating events from the past. It makes the unfamiliar things familiar to the readers. It is capable of foreseeing events and draws the readers into another world that is unfamiliar to the reader. The reader unintentionally gets haunted into the world created by the writer.  Literature by making use of the complex psyche of the characters probes into the minds of the readers. Here E.R. Braithwaite with his semi- autobiographical novel, To Sir, With Love probes into the minds of readers by dealing with his real life experiences. The paper focuses on the racial prejudices that existed in London along with analysing the difficulties that the protagonist had to face and how he succeeds later on winning the affection and respect from his students.