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Miss Smith and Black Pearl analysis the relationship between the teacher Miss Smith and her student James Ogri
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- In this story James Orgri, a trained dancer who danced his way to stardom, owes his success to his teacher Miss Smith. It was Miss Smith who taught James Orgri that success was not an impossible, worthless dream, but existed, waiting for anyone whether black, brown, yellow, or white if they worked hard and wanted it enough
- James studied in Penrose Road School. There were not any specialist teachers at Penrose Road School. Miss Smith was Class XI's Form Teacher and, painstakingly, she imparted the mysteries of spelling and sums and taught them how to draw and read stories. However, she took the whole school to for musical movement and drama and then Miss Smith came to her.
- Miss Smith never shouted or discouraged children who could not dance and would always be kind to them; however, for students who were very good Miss Smith would be very tough and fierce. But the fiercer she became so everyone was happy really, since if she yelled, they knew they were good.
- James Ogri who hailed from a very poor family was an excellent dancer. When he danced, bare from the waist up, he would glisten with oily perspiration and someone said he looked like a pearl. And hence he was called the Black pearl. Miss Smith was so impressed with James' dance that she even paid for James dancing classes when James' parents could not afford to pay for it
- Miss Smith herself paid to send James to a good dancing school on Saturday mornings where at first James was ridiculed and made fun because of his shorts and bare feet by the pretty girls and posh boys in their immaculate clothes and special shoes for different types of dancing. But they did not laugh when they saw him dance
- James Ogori went on to become an inspiration, and the ideal of students of Penrose Road School . He was living proof that even if you came from an area described as a 'sociologist’s nightmare’ such as Penrose Road, you could make it.
- After he left Penrose School he went to study further and later he went to go to London and on the stage. James went on to become very famous and there was even talk of his being nominated for an Oscar. Finally one day he comes back to his old school (as a guest for the end of the term concert) where he visits Miss. Smith, although after leaving Penrose he never went back and saw her.
- Miss Smith was sure that he would one day come to see her when he becomes very famous and reached the very top of his career where he could not get greater than that. Finally, when he see Miss Smith, James express his desire to dance with her and says the reason that he did not come to see her was that he wanted make himself worthy such that he could dance with her.
- Though Miss Smith refused saying that she could not dance anymore as she was clumsy, and uncoordinated, James still takes on stage and yells loudly that he loves her.
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