A Major Theme in ‘Our Day Out’ Is the Lack of Education and Opportunity for Young People in the Inner City. Using Scenes from the Play, Show How Willy Russell Makes the Audience Aware of This Theme
A major theme in ‘Our Day Out’ is the lack of education and opportunity for young people in the inner city. Using scenes from the play, show how Willy Russell makes the audience aware of this theme
The lack of education and opportunity affects young people in inner cities like Liverpool, these young people have never been given the chance to have a good education, and therefore they were just stuck in a states school, where there aren’t many people who care what grades they get and what they do once they leave school. In 1977 the factories that these young people would of been going to work in once they had left school, were starting to close down, as the docks and factories were going into further decline. So this meant that lots of people were losing there jobs, and homes. In todays life people are seeing the effects of this on there society.
Willy Russell uses the people in the play as dramatic devices, to get his point across about the children being deprived of a future, as they have hardly any opportunities and a bad education. He uses humor in this play to keep the audience interested, and so that its such a sad, situation that it makes people upset. In the stage directions he goes into a lot of detail about the characters actions, so we know what they are doing and them we can figure out for our selves why, as the characters.
In the first scene we meet Carol, who we know is from a poorer family as in the stage directions it says ‘wearing a school uniform which doubles as a street outfit and her Sunday best.’ This tells us that she can only afford one set of clothes. Also in this first scene we learn that Carol hasn’t been well educated as the was she speaks is in colloquial language, like when she says ‘There’s nott’n comin’ though.’ and also when she says things like y’ and t’. She also struggles to hold a full conversation as all of her responses are only a few words long. When the lollypop man is telling Carol that even though it looks like
The lack of education and opportunity affects young people in inner cities like Liverpool, these young people have never been given the chance to have a good education, and therefore they were just stuck in a states school, where there aren’t many people who care what grades they get and what they do once they leave school. In 1977 the factories that these young people would of been going to work in once they had left school, were starting to close down, as the docks and factories were going into further decline. So this meant that lots of people were losing there jobs, and homes. In todays life people are seeing the effects of this on there society.
Willy Russell uses the people in the play as dramatic devices, to get his point across about the children being deprived of a future, as they have hardly any opportunities and a bad education. He uses humor in this play to keep the audience interested, and so that its such a sad, situation that it makes people upset. In the stage directions he goes into a lot of detail about the characters actions, so we know what they are doing and them we can figure out for our selves why, as the characters.
In the first scene we meet Carol, who we know is from a poorer family as in the stage directions it says ‘wearing a school uniform which doubles as a street outfit and her Sunday best.’ This tells us that she can only afford one set of clothes. Also in this first scene we learn that Carol hasn’t been well educated as the was she speaks is in colloquial language, like when she says ‘There’s nott’n comin’ though.’ and also when she says things like y’ and t’. She also struggles to hold a full conversation as all of her responses are only a few words long. When the lollypop man is telling Carol that even though it looks like