Our Day Out.

Mr Briggs is hard when it comes down to education. Mr Biggs saw the whole trip as a shamble and chaos. Mr Briggs is being ignored by Mrs Kay. Mr Briggs believes that school is made for learning and nothing but learning, and completely disagrees with Mrs Kay. Mr Briggs has no life outside the school. Everything he does is based about the school. "(The school looming behind him)". He can't interact with people. He is very ignorant. Mr Briggs want everyone to listen to him, and when he's teaching its as though he locks the kids in a room and makes it out as though their born in it. "It must know about other way of living, sir. You know, free like the way people have stopped it livin. It only kills people cos it's trapped and people are always stood lookin at it. If it was free it wouldn't bother people at all." At the end of the play Mr Briggs does change his attitude. That was when he was being nice to Carol and was enjoying himself for the first time. But then he turned back to normal at the end of the play when he exposes the film to light. I think he did that because he knew that if the other teachers heard about it then it would ruin his reputation.

Mrs Kay wants the kids to have freedom. She says that they were rejects since the day they were born, and that they have no futures. Mrs Kay's attitude is usually the same throughout the whole play. Mrs Kay is very friendly to the children and she is friendly to the teachers too. Mr Briggs has an attitude with everyone. He doesn't care who he's talking too.

Carol is one of the focused characters in the play as well as some of the other children. She is hopeless and dreamy. She describes on how horrible her property is. She also explains that how atrocious everything is. I also know that she loves pets because in the zoo she was stroking the animals. When they get to the beach, Carol was describing on how the children would it if it was close to where they live. She didn't want to go home after she saw the beach. She enjoyed the ambience, and the setting. When she was told that she had to go home she didn't want to. Mr Briggs tried to stop her but when he did she threatened to jump off the cliff. Mr Briggs managed to pull her away from the cliff.

Every child on the bus has a problem. Andrew has a mum who is always hanging around the docks and a father who beats him for a cigarette.

Reilly is the comedian in this play. He is very disobedient. I found this by when he was smoking at the back of the bus. He is also soft from the inside because at the end he has feelings for Carol. He is also a bully because he threatens to beat a kid grassing on his for having a cigarette on the back of the bus. Reilly has a bit of both. He can be very tender then the next minute he is a aggressive guy and that's why no-one misses with him.

At the end of this analysis I thought the play was very funny but at the same time sad because the children didn't had good futures and they were all poor and didn't have a decent life. The best part of the play was when Carol was going to commit suicide on the play. So many thought were rushing into your head like, just say if she jumped what would the reaction of the teachers be and the children etc. I think that if the play was more direct then people would be sad because they knew exactly what would be going on, but if the play had laughter in it then people would enjoy reading it and wouldn't be so upset, and the author would be getting his view across. More people would read the play too because its funny and the play would stay in your head for longer.

I now know that back in the 1970's the poor people didn't have a good education at all. The rich kids got a decent education because the had money they were wealthy and they used to set up fairs to raise extra money for the school.

This play was popular because of the amount of laughter that was inserted into the play. But if a teenager was reading a Shakespeare book then thing would be the other way round. Shakespeare's plays are very prosaic. The teenagers wouldn't enjoy it because it would be to long, no laughter at all and a sad story line.