Our Day Out by Willy Russell :: English Literature

A major theme in Our Day egress is the lack of learning andopportunity for young great deal in the inner city. Using scenes from the goldbrick, show how Willy Russell makes the audience aware of this theme.Introduction.The play that I am writing about is call(a)ed Our Day Out and it waswritten by Willy Russell. The principal(prenominal) theme of the play is to tell thereader what look was like for people (mainly children) in Liverpool inthe 1970s and what their education was like. During the 1970s 100 000 clienteles were mazed 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 bullion in education and the only thingthat the kids could do was play on the streets and get 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 in like manner the same becau se all the kidshad given up on life and their teachers had given up on them evergetting a job.The play is about under achieving children who have 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 want to learn anything.She is also a soft teacher so the headmaster decides to send a fastidiousteacher along with her. As well as the castle they also went to thezoo, the beach and the funfair.Part 1 hum 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 run-inlike Agh, ey, wanna, t, and goin . She also repeats words andpauses a lot. This shows that she might wear in a rough backgroundwhere people use abbreviations, convert a lot and have poor communicationskills. Carol is job 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 patheti c. It is also because she agrees with Leswhen he says There all backwards round here and she always asks gaumless 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 trying to say that even