Educating Rita Essay Paragraph Plan
At the beginning of each section of the essay you should
write a topic sentence like :
“A the beginning of the play Rita is clearly uneducated and she
feels socially inferior to Frank.”
In the rest of the section, every time you make a point backing up the
topic sentence, use the following format
Statement
Rita had little or no schooling so she grew up without an education.
Evidence (quote and analysis)
Rita says in Act 1 Scene 2 that she had little choice but to flunk school:
“See if I’d started taking school seriously I would have been
different from my mates, and that’s not allowed.”
Summation (summing up relevance to the essay question)
Because she has no education Rita is likely to be intimidated by the
university.
Finally at the end of the section sum up the relevance of
all the points made to the question
Rita is at the very start of her journey at the beginning of the play. She
is uneducated and she has no idea what good literature or how to write an
essay. She is also in awe of and intimidated by Frank.