Chose three settings from Our Day Out and write about what they represent

Chose three settings from Our Day Out and write about what they represent?

The Streets

The street is a typical terraced housing inner city street. It has no gardens or any other attractive features such as flowerbeds, trees or flowers. The street is a very poor street which can be shown by the houses as some of them are probably small and of poor quality. When Carol runs up the street holding her carrier bag and wearing her school uniform that doubled as her Sunday best and a street outfit you could see that she is quite poor and she that this is where she came from. Further on in the play Carol says that she wished she could get out of the city and into the countryside and she tries to leave the coach party to stay at the countryside and get away from her town. The streets are there at the beginning so that we can see were it is that she wants to get away from and we understand why she loves the countryside so much as she lives in a very small poorly made house on a polluted smoky street which probably has no distinguishing features and looks the same as all the other streets round that area. The streets are also there to represent that the children are from working class inner city estates and probably don’t know better than the streets around them. Also it represents that they think that they wont ever get out of that place and that they want to.

The School Playground

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The School Playground

The school is a typical state school with a big playground and it is quite large. It is very busy as there are lots of children that go to it. In the playground Mrs Kay is stood there trying to get the progress class ready to go on a trip. The children are very excited and are screaming and generally enjoying themselves. Then Mrs Kay say to the children if anyone has not paid please come over here and they all follow her this symbolizes that none of them have the money to pay for the trip, which represents poverty. At the school we meet a character that has already been in the play briefly in attempt to run over Carol then he turns out to be the Vice Principle Mr Briggs whom nobody likes. Mr Briggs complains to the principal about Mrs Kay being allowed to go on a trip unsupervised and is then asked to go along with her to make sure she doesn’t allow any misbehaviour etc, The school represents all that Briggs is about as he devotes his life to making the student behave.

The Coach

The café represents that the children from Liverpool are not wanted in a normal café because of a previous experience of one of the workers in the café. This proves that the children are being judged from where they come from and that will probably stay with them all their lives. This setting represents that even the café who are supposed to be having a slow season wont open up at the chance of gaining some custom as they are from Liverpool. It represents what Carol has been thinking that the countryside is better. Also when they get to the next café they do steal all the sweets and disrupt the shop and do basically everything that the woman in the first shop thought they would do. So the prejudgements of the people are right. But also if the people don’t give them a chance then there is no way that they could have proved that they weren’t going to steal etc. This scene is to represent that the children are just doing what is expected of them.