Compare and contrast any two of the main characters in Our Day Out. Pay particular attention to dramatic effects and how the audience might react to each of them.

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Compare and contrast any two of the main characters in Our Day Out. Pay particular attention to dramatic effects and how the audience might react to each of them.

Mrs Kay and Mr Briggs

Mrs Kay is the form tutor of the progress class. She is in her early forties. She is a very caring teacher and is admired by her pupils and most of the other faculty. Although some teachers are not so sure of Mrs Kay’s teaching methods one of these is Mr Briggs.

Mr Briggs is the form tutor of year six. He is in his early thirties and above Mrs Kay in the school. He is a very stern man and can often be taken as uncaring but the other teachers on some level respect him.

The first difference in these two people is the way that they think. Mrs Kay thinks with her heart and Mr Briggs thinks with his head. Although Mrs Kay’s way of thinking isn’t really an appropriate way of thinking in a normal school environment the progress class is not normal. These children have problems learning and need to be approached in a different manner. Mr Briggs might understand that if he understood the need for a progress class but he sees the class as an excuse for valuable teaching time to be wasted. Briggs’ way of thinking can be classed as “Old School” where as Mrs Kay is a new age teacher. She believes in teaching the children with respect and trust and they will gain responsibility and behave well. Briggs believes that in giving them an inch they will take a mile so he doesn’t give any trust therefore the children never get a chance.

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One similarity is that both of these people help children. I would say that Briggs helps more of the children in the academic department but Mrs Kay helps the children socially. A lot of these children don’t come from a loving family so Mrs Kay provides them with a lot of love and care. But also a lot of the children don’t have father figures at home and Briggs gives them a stern role model fatherly figure. They would make a good parenting team together.

Mr Briggs is very trustworthy and reliable whereas Mrs Kay is trustworthy she ...

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