Our Day Out by Willy Russell :: English Literature

A major theme in Our Day Out is the pretermit of education andopportunity for young concourse in the inner city. Using scenes from theplay, show how Willy Russell makes the audience aware of this theme.Introduction.The play that I am writing about is c each(prenominal)ed Our Day Out and it waswritten by Willy Russell. The main theme of the play is to tell thereader what life was like for people (mainly children) in Liverpool inthe 1970s and what their education was like. During the 1970s 100 000jobs were confounded in Liverpool because the docks had been closed and allof the factories were closing down. The unemployment went up, thestreets got dirty, there was no money in education and the only thingthat the kids could do was play on the streets and lay down into trouble.I think that this is like the play by Willy Russell because all thefactories were closing down, the docks had been closed and there wasrubbish all over the streets. Its also the same because all the kidshad give n up on life and their teachers had given up on them evergetting a job.The play is about under achieving children who assume been given thechance to go on a trip to Conwy Castle in Wales. Their teacher knowsthat there is no hope for them and they dont inadequacy to learn anything.She is also a soft teacher so the headmaster decides to send a strictteacher along with her. As well as the castle they also went to thezoo, the beach and the funfair.Part 1 Carol at the school gates.Carols use of language shows how there is a lack of education andopportunity in Liverpool at this time by the way that she says wordslike Agh, ey, wanna, t, and goin . She also repeats words andpauses a lot. This shows that she might brood in a rough backgroundwhere people use abbreviations, slag a lot and have poor communicationskills. Carol is suppose to be funny because she acts like she issmart and a normal person when she knows that shes not and this makesher sound even more pathetic. It is also becaus e she agrees with Leswhen he says There all backwards round here and she always asksstupid questions. Carol is fooling her self about living in a niceplace because she has no basic skills to get a job and buy a house in.Part 2 At the zoo.When Ronson is stood at the bear pit he is nerve-wracking to say that even