To Sir, With Love
Oct. 16th, 2007 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
joshwriting40 years (and a few months) ago, E. R. Braithwaite's novel, To Sir, With Love was released as "A Major Motion Picture," starring Sidney Poitier as an engineer immigrant to England who finally lands a job as a high school teacher in a London slum.
I was 10 when it came out. It struck me. So did the book, which was sitting idly in a bookcase. (I have no idea how it got there, as I am sure neither of my parents read it, but it was there when the movie came out.)
I didn't want 'Miss Dare.' I didn't want Lulu. I was 10. I wanted Mark Thackeray (Poitier).
I wanted to be Mark Thackeray. I still do.
I still tear up at the end.
(This is not quite the end)
I was 10 when it came out. It struck me. So did the book, which was sitting idly in a bookcase. (I have no idea how it got there, as I am sure neither of my parents read it, but it was there when the movie came out.)
I didn't want 'Miss Dare.' I didn't want Lulu. I was 10. I wanted Mark Thackeray (Poitier).
I wanted to be Mark Thackeray. I still do.
I still tear up at the end.
(This is not quite the end)
