Hello People!
I`m going to write about the “For your best, Son” that
is an excerpt from the novel “In the Presence of the Enemy” by Elizabeth
George.
Elizabeth George was born in America but lives partly
in California and partly in London. She has won several awards for her crime
novels, most of which are set in England. When I was a exchange at Oxford
University did I want to read some English books and I had heard that Elisabeth
George had written a lot of good books.
“For your best, Son” is about a conflict between the
newspaper editor Denis Luxford and his wife Fiona. He wants to send his young son Leo to the
public school he himself went to, while Fiona thinks Leo will be better off
staying at home and continuing at his present school with friends. Luxford
takes his son out for lunch to talk to him about going away to Baverstock.
Denis says that it`s a privilege to go to a school like Baverstoch, but Leo
says that he`s to little. A public school is open to the community or the
people. Public schools in England are also known as private schools. 10% attend
to public schools. But the public schools are not open to the public but they
have had a crucial impact on British society, though their ideals and morals
and in the early 1400s who intended to educate local boys from relatively poor
and humble backgrounds.
In the excerpt “For your best, Son” from the
novel “In the Presence of the Enemy” Leo`s father want Leo to attend to the
boarding school Baverstock. Baverstock is a public school and it`s really
expensive to attend to that school and other public schools like Oxford that I
am attending to. Many of the students at the public schools have to have a
really rich family and most of the students attend to the Elite class, as I do.
The Elite class is characteristics by that they are the UK`s biggest earners,
they have highest, social, cultural and economic factors. This group is
exclusive and very hard to join, most come from very privileged backgrounds.
6& of the population in England attend to the Elite class. Many people say
that it`s a privilege to go to a boarding school and it`s also proved that you
will do it much better on a boarding than a state school. Therefore did I
choose to go on a boarding school. 
The Baverstock has school uniforms like Oxford
University, but they are different. Each school has it`s own school
uniform. Schools uniforms in England
were first introduced during the reign of King Henry VIII (8). The uniforms of
the time consisted of long trench-coat-style jackets dyed blue. Blue was the
cheapest available dye. Today, boys are wearing long grey or black trousers,
white shirt, school tie, jumper or sweater with the school logo on and black
shoes. Girls are wearing the same but they are wearing skirts or dresses in the
summer.
The Baverstock`s uniform
Oxford`s uniform
Leo`s father says that schools have everything to do
with class. They have everything to do with meeting the right people and making the right connections and learning
the right accent and making sure one`s clothing, posture, outside activities,
choice of career and attitude towards everyone else can be labelled. At Oxford
I meet students that really want to learn and they are getting very good grades.
At state schools there are more people that don`t care about their grades. You
can find students like this on many boarding schools, also at the Baverstock. Also,
state schools are nastier than boarding schools, which are mostly because boarding
schools have more money to spend. To choose the right school has everything to
do with meeting the right people and making the right connections and learning
the right accent.
On boarding schools it`s a lot of multiculturalism.
Students from more than a hundred and forty countries make up a students
population of over twenty thousand. Over a third comes from outside the United
Kingdom. This is a very good opportunity for students to get friends from many
countries. On state schools there are not that many students that come from other
countries, often because located students attend to located state schools.
“For your best Son” seems like a very good book. The
book relates a lot about the culture and society in England, and it`s very
interesting to read about the English culture and society. You can learn lots
of information about the school system, the social classes and public and state
schools. “For your best Son” abrogates a conflict between Leo`s mother and
father, they discuss which school Leo should attend to. His mother thinks a
state school is best, but his father thinks a boarding school is best.
Good bye:)
Sources:
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English Public Schools, read
19/3-2014
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Uk-education, read 20/3-2014
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Class calculator, read 22/3-2014
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