Compare two/three scenes showing how the writer creates contrasting dramatic effects

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Compare two/three scenes showing how the writer creates contrasting dramatic effects

        ‘Our day out’ is a comedy in which a group of Liverpool school children is taken on a trip to North Wales. There is a lot of fun and many of the scenes make us laugh such as the zoo scene and the fair scene. Some of the characters are funny some are kind and some are very mean. The characters use slang language. These are based on author’s own experience.

        Many things happen on the beach scenes such as teacher’s and children playing football. Children running, screaming paddling, shouting, laughing and even the teacher Susan pretends to seduce Reily and the kids spy on Susan and Reily:

“Susan- I’m all yours…handsome…!

Reilly- Don’t mess, miss

Susan-(putting her arm around him) I’m not messing big boy I’m serious!”

The effect on the audience will be does the teacher fancy Reily and if she does is she going to do anything and is Reily just going to stand there and watch. In this part of the beach scene Mr Briggs sits alone on a rock away from the children which tells us he doesn’t care about the children and he doesn’t want to know them or understand them.

“Briggs sits on a rock apart from the main group”

        The most frequent dramatic effecting this scene is laughter. It makes the audience laugh when Mrs Kay is playing football with the children, when Mrs Kay chases Kevin and ducks his head in the water and when Susan the teacher pretends to seduce Reily and these parts of the scene entertain the audience. At the end of the scene the writer changes the word and builds attention. This is because Mrs Kay can’t find Carol it makes the audience surprise and they start to think and questions start to go through our heads. For example where has she gone, has the teachers lost her and at this point of the story the audience really want to know what is going ton happen next. The audience think it is getting interesting.

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        The scene that specially I like and makes me laugh is the beach scene. It makes me laugh because of the thing they do for example Mrs Kay chases Kevin and trips him over and dipped his head into the water.

“In a flash she is on him and turns him upside down. She ducks him and he come up spluttering and laughing. The other kids cheer and laugh”

This shows that Mrs Kay enjoys playing with children and making them laugh. The other part of his beach scene I like is when Mrs Kay is playing football ...

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