Educating Rita

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During the whole book Rita firstly decides to try and change by for the open university changing her name to rita. She does in Act 1 just when she joins the open university trying to show that she wants to change for Frank and start a knew life. At the beginning of the play she is basically just a hair dresser and she feels and knows that she is not getting anywhere. Basically she is a married woman and she knows that she is going to be like everyone else a normal underclass job have a baby but her knew attiude is that she wants to be not normal. When I mean not normal I mean someone slightly different to her class a person who wants to learn she wants to be able to do all the things clever people do. Her knew attitude is to learn and to find out who she is and not have a baby till she finds out her true self. This is a thing that effects not just her but the people she knows like her husband because her husband wants to have a baby and she does not want to have one because of her knew attiude.

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When she first at arrives at the open university franks attiude to rita is at first like all is other pupils. His attiude is he could not really give a toss. Frank then starts to realise that rita is there for work and has a true heart for work and he knows that she desverse a better teacher than himself. But rita wants franks as a teacher so even know walking out on Frank when he says he does not want to teach her she does not give up. She shows this by coming back the next day and ...

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