Rita’s husband has done something that he has no right to do because Rita has her right to educate herself and what she wants to do. Rita wants to learn and be educated like others but her husband does not like this because he knows that when she is educated he will lose her.
- In relation to her husband, how does Rita see herself and what does she appear to want from her life? (P2)
Rita wants to make her own choices and explore the world and see her self as a successful person. Rita self-esteem builds, and she doesn’t feel left out. Rita speaks positively, her social skills build (no family pressure).
- How does Rita’s husband react when she asserts her right to avoid pregnancy? (M2)
When Rita tries to avoid pregnancy her husband gets very annoyed with her. He burns her essay and shows domestic violence by pushing her. He is afraid that she will change and leave him. They both have different ways of thinking and they don’t spend much time discussing their future and they don’t support each other and there is very little trust between them. Rita is keeping secrets and taking pills to avoid pregnancy. Denny is getting annoyed and they both are not communicating well together.
- What is Denny’s reaction when Rita makes an attempt to educate herself? Why do you think he behaves like this? (M2)
Rita’s husband behaves like this because he feels jealous, angry and has high expectations of his wife. He feels that once Rita is educated their relationship will change she won’t be the same old Rita he knew. Rita believes that once she is educated she can live a better life style and Denny thinks different. Denny is happy in living the way he is and is comfortable in living in his environment where he feels safe and secure.
- Why do you think that Rita’s marriage breaks down/ support you’re answer with examples from the film? (M2)
The reason Rita’s marriage collapses because they both want different things. Rita wants to educate her self and her husband wants to have children and wants Rita to stay the way she is, but Rita has her own dream and she wants to live a civilised life. Denny does not want Rita to change and is not willing to change him self. He likes the job he is doing and wants things to stay the same.
- Rita makes her studies a priority. What difference does having an education make to her life? (P2)
The difference by having an education makes to her life is that she will have a good lifestyle. Rita will feel better and proud of her achievements. Rita will have a good job therefore her income will rise and she would be able to buy her self a nice house in a clean environment. Her physical appearance will alter she will have the money to buy stylish clothes that would reflect her new appearance. Socially Rita will be going to parties and meeting people. Physically Rita will stop smoking.
- Rita leaves her home and family behind and moves to a different place. How does her life style change? (P2)
When Rita leaves her family and moves to a different place. Her life style changes she becomes lonely at first when she realizes no one supports her and her self-asteam falls dramatically. When we watch the video we can see what kind of relationship Rita has with her father. They don’t get on well with each other. We know that Rita mother doesn’t say a lot in the film and we can see that she is a quite person. Rita’s father is very selfish and doesn’t want Rita to be educated. Denny is not supporting Rita and agrees with his father-in-law that Rita should leave the university. Rita’s relationship with her family breaks, because her husband doesn’t like what she is doing and he finds another girlfriend.
At the beginning of the film Rita found it difficult to mix with people and to make new friends with people for example in the film her tutor invites her to a parity, Rita is nervous to go to the party because she doesn’t know what to wear and what the people at the party are going to say to her, Rita decides to go to the party but when she arrives out side the house where the party has taken place, Rita doesn’t feel to go in and join in with the others, Rita sees them as more higher class people, more educated, she also thinks she might do some thing wrong so she turns back and goes back home.
Rita was born in to a family that holds fewer opportunities. At the beginning of the film Rita’s friends did not talk to her, as the days passed by Rita started getting to know them, for example there were a group of people sitting on the grass outside the open university where one of the boy sitting on the grass called Rita to come and join in, so from then Rita’s feelings started to open and started to mix with different people of different ages. Her relationship with students started to improve as the days went on.
- How does Rita’s financial status alter when she becomes a student? (P2)
Rita’s financial status alters when she becomes a student because Rita worked as a waitress she earned more than she earned from hairdressing. This is because when she was a hairdresser she was not educated and when she found the job of a waitress she was educated and therefore she can find a well paid job and earn twice the more than she earns working as a waitress.
When Rita left her husband she struggles, her income is low and she finds it difficult to cope alone. When Denny was living with her, she found it easy to pay for the bills and buy food etc.
If Rita gets a good job she doesn’t have to live in a flat, and catch a bus or taxi to work because she can buy her self a cosy and comfortable house to live in and a good car to travel in.
- Why do you think that Rita’s appearance changes as she changes? (M1)
Rita’s life changes as she changes, Rita self-esteem builds, and she doesn’t feel left out. Rita speaks positively, her social skills build (no family pressure). She also feels safe and secure. Rita is know more open in what she wants to do and she is determined to keep on learning.
Rita’s appearance changes as she changes. She sees the difference in wearing mini skirts as her mind develops and as she experiences the new surroundings at her summer school. When she returns to university she is wearing jeans. Rita feels apart of the group.
Rita’s language changes as she changes. Rita returns from summer school with a new look and a different personality. Rita has learned new social skills like talking calmly, making sense in what you are saying, facial expressions when talking, smiling, being polite, good body expressions.
- Consider Rita’s tutor. How does he treat her when he first meets her? Why do you think that he behaves like this? (P3)
When Rita’s tutor first meets her he saw her as a working class person and did not take much interests in her. He behaves like this because Rita’s appearance was very low class because she wore pink colour mini skirt and she changed her voice when she first spoke to him and also named her self after a poet writer. She had two different identities her real name was Susan.
The tutor changed his mind because he thought that she was very keen to learn. Rita’s tutor thought that she would have difficulties to fit in and she would find it hard to behave in front of the other students.
16. Describe the way in which Rita’s relationship with her tutor grows and
changes (P3)
Rita has a good relationship with her tutor and she learns a lot from her tutor. They have a loving relationship, which is having trust and friendship. The difficulties that Rita faces as she moves into the world inhabited by her tutor is that she finds it hard to mix with her classmates, difficulties in answering the questions. She also had difficulties in doing her essays. She dealt with this quit
strongly.
- Analyse the positive and negative effects, which Rita’s relationship with tutor has on her personal development (M2)
Positively Rita is learning how to write long essay and how to speak in front of people. She is developing new skills like communicating with other people, building up her confident, change of identity and taught how to criticise literacy. Her tutor empowers her with her own choice in what she wants to do.
Negatively her tutor insults her because the tutor starts to get jealous of her because Rita can write better essays from him and the tutor gets very angry and starts to drink very heavily and Rita starts lying to him. Rita is going forward and the tutor has stopped.
Rita’s tutor did not have the conscious to pass on the message about her exam
date, which was the following day. He told her on the very last minute.
- Discuss the positive and negative effects, which Rita’s relationship with other students has on her personal development. (M2)
Positively Rita has been accepted in the group and one of the student offers to take her to South Africa. Rita has the ability to speak out and put her point of view forward. Rita started to understand and appreciate her new environment and the people in it.
Negatively at first Rita was afraid that the other students wouldn’t accept her and she felt that they are laughing at her. Rita was finding it difficult to mix in with the other students. Rita felt more comfortable in her own environment, which she belongs to and was finding it difficult to adjust to the new surroundings around her.
- On finding her flatmate unconscious Rita responds by calling the emergency services. How does she support her flatmate? (P4)
Rita supports her flatmate very well and thinks she is a very good person. Rita stays at the hospital overnight with her flatmate and she has an exam in the morning that she does not know about. Rita got on well with her flat mate and had a good friendship.
- Rita’s flatmate is very distressed following her attempted suicide. If you were to provide her with any advice about how to deal with her unhappiness. What would you recommend and why? You will probably need to research in general terms about these issues. (M3)
Trish was unconscious and Rita called for the ambulance. Trish self -asteam is very low and she is unhappy with her self. Trish likes to listen to music and she works as a waitress in Bistro.
The doctor is also supporting Trish at the hospital along with the nurses and the cleaners who are cleaning her room at the hospital. When Trish leaves the hospital she may need support at home. I would recommend counselling to try to figure out why her self-asteam is low. I would persuade her to consider going to college and do a degree course and educate her self.
- Analyse how people cope with change and how these changes could affect development and the type of help and support they need. (D2)
In Rira’s situation she did not have the support from her family. Her husband did not support her, he was jealous that she would be different from him. Denny attitude towards having an education is that it is a waste of time. Rita had a different way of thinking she had the ambitious to learn and to be a different person. Rita dealt with her problems strongly and she did have her moments of loneliness and she over come them by smoking, which was not good for her health and could damage her lungs.
Rita’s tutor helped her to lean and to be successful like him. When Rita finally achieved her goals and came back from the summer school. Frank (her tutor) found it difficult to see Rita changed. He offered her a box of cigarettes and Rita happily replied that she has stopped smoking. The way Rita dressed at the beginning of the film had changed. From short mini skirts and dyed hair. After she was educated she wore jeans and dyed her hair back to her normal colour and looked very smartly dressed. Her tutor was shocked to see her different. Frank had his own problems he found out that his girl friend was having an affair with some one else. He was very depressed and had lack of confidence in him self.
Most people find it difficult to cope with out a partner. Their self-asteam falls dramatically, they become stressed and they don’t feel good about them selves. Many people try to commit suicide when they don’t find any solutions for there problems. May people can pretend that they are strong and can cope with divorce and loss of family members. Rita was strong and she became what she wanted to be. Rita had a lot of stress when her husband was not supporting. When Rita divorced Denny she felt lonely and went away and found her self a flat and from there on she fought her way through her problems.