Class

"What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what
we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances. The characteristics that
ruin a man in one class made him eminent in another."

This is a quote said by George Bernard Shaw. It is about the different ways that people ask in the world. This week in class we watched a movie about social classes. It explained how different people acted in different social classes. There was this women that took a lesson on how to act like a rich person. After learning she went to a party and just acted like how she had learned so she would appear to be rich and people would treat her like she was a rich person. This is an example of someone trying to act based like the circumstances. Her usual character doesn't act like a rich person does but because she wanted to fit in she tried to act like a rich person. In almost every class there is a standard of how people act. When people were born in a class, grew up in a class and live in a specific class they act like that specific class, but when they hang around with people in a different class most people change their character to try and fit in with the class they are around. Another example of class is that boy from the movie that lived in a trailer. The boy was very unhappy that he lived in a trailer and didn't want his friends in school to know this so at school he wouldn't bring up anything about his home life and he would never invite any friends over. He dressed as if he were in a higher class than he was living in. Whenever he wasn't home he tried to act like he was in a higher class than he was living in.