The Lord of the Flies - In the closing scene, what does the officer’s evaluation of the boy’s experience on the island suggest about the adult world?
In the closing scene, what does the officer's evaluation of the boy's experience on the island suggest about the adult world? Golding's novel, "The Lord of the Flies", shows the way children act and think in a way that has never been seen in another novel. It shows the reality of how children would truly behave if they were stranded on a deserted island. In many novels kids are portrayed as being innocent and benign, because that is what most adults think of kids. This is a mistake made by adults because kids are not so innocent and harmless as they believe. This ignorance displayed by the adults can be evidently seen at the end of the novel. At the end of the novel when Ralph was escaping from Jack and his hunter, and the raging fire, he falls at the feet of a soldier. The first thing the soldier asks if there were any adults on the island. This shows that the soldier prefers to talk to an adult than to talk with Ralph because he believes he is a kid and he couldn't explain what happened. The adult world belief that the kids are innocent and that without any adults to guide them they are not capable of doing anything. The soldier sees all the boys with painted faces shouting and running and he believes that they were playing a game, when actually they were killing each other like savages. The soldier asks Ralph sarcastically, "What have you been doing? Having a war or
How important is it that "Our Day Out" has multiple settings?
Philip O' Hare, 12S. English Literature Coursework- "Our Day Out". How important is it that "Our Day Out" has multiple settings? The play "Our Day Out" is a microcosm of the world around us focused on the "economically and socially deprived" part of it. The play is based in a time when there is high un-employment and there is a noticeable difference between the rich and the poor in society. The play itself tells the story of a group of schoolchildren from the "Progress Class" from a Liverpool school who go on perhaps one of the biggest journeys of their lives. These children are indeed from the poorer sector of the community and the name "Progress Class" you could argue was a name for students from that category. The children go to Wales. The play is anything but a two-dimensional kids show, it goes much deeper that that. The play has multiple themes and settings and the writer, Willy Russell, has cleverly inserted some very complex and serious issues into what appears to be kids entertainment. He has captured the language of Liverpool, for example, in splendid detail, "You do an' I'll gob y", just one of the many lines in the play that stands out for its use of accent. Russell has also tackled some serious issues in the play, prejudice and discrimination, for example. Even the teachers that teach the children are guilty of this. We see even warm characters such as Mrs Kay
Our Day Out. The character who I sympathised the most is Mr Briggs although that he is strict, bossy and annoying I like him because he will teach children
Our Day Out The title of the play I read was called "Our Day Out," by Willy Russell. The play is about children who are taken on a trip by four teachers and they are on their way to Conway Castle but they stop at many other places such as the zoo, the beach and the fair and all the children are all happy and glad to be out of terrible city of Liverpool so I feel sad for them cause they live in a bad city, when I live in a nice clean neighbourhood. In my essay I shall be referring to the question in the play Our Day Out with whom do I sympathise most Mrs Kay or Mr Briggs. Mr Briggs is who I sympathise with most. The play is set in Liverpool and a school is off on a trip but as they rush off, to pile on the bus but the children were stopped by the driver and Mrs Kay makes the driver feel sorry for the children because they live in poor area and school: "we usually do the better schools." The school is bad as is the town. The progress class is for all the children who have difficulty reading, writing and understanding subjects: "by Christ I'll bet she's kept busy, they're all bloody backward round here," This tells me that most of the children are all quite stupid and dumb and won't gain a real job. We are introduced to Mrs Kay, the progress class teacher when she is getting the children ready to get on the bus. She treats the children like they are just 5 years old,
Our Day Out by Willy Russel - Scene 31 Conway Castle Analysis
Matt Speak - 11.6 - Codsall Community High School - English Literature Coursework - 28th Sept 2001 Our Day Out by Willy Russel - Scene 31 Conway Castle I N T R O D U C T I O N Analysis Original Text: Mrs Kay: I was talking to those children. Briggs: Yes, and I'm talking to you, Mrs Kay. It's got to stop, this has. Mrs Kay: What has? Briggs: What has? Can't y' see what's goin' on? It's a shambles, the whole ill organised affair. look at what they did at the zoo. Just look at them here. [All around the castle they can see, from where they sit, kids running, pulling, laughing and shouting] They're left to race and chase and play havoc. Go knows what the castle authorities must think. look, when you bring children like ours into this sort of environment you can't afford to just let them go free. They're just like town dogs let off the lead in the country. My god, for some of them it's the first time they have been further than Birkenhead. Mrs Kay: [Quietly] I know. And I was just thinking; it's a shame really, isn't it, eh? You know, we bring them into a crumbling pile of bricks and mortar and they think they are in the fields of heaven. [Pause. He glares at her] Briggs: [Accusing] You are on their side aren't you? Mrs Kay: [Looking at him] Absolutely, Mr Briggs. Absolutely! Briggs: Look! All I want from you is what you're going to do about this chaos. Mrs
How Does Willy Russell Make Scenes 5 And 35 Effective In
Jeffrey Mattingley 10Y How Does Willy Russell Make Scenes 5 And 35 Effective In "Our Day Out"? Willy Russell's "Our Day Out" is a comedy for Television with serious messages. The two scenes 5 and 35 are effective because they show different styles of Briggs. The atmosphere changes rapidly from the early scenes to the later scenes. It starts off as a quiet normal living atmosphere to a noisy coach trip until then end of the storyline. The way Willy Russell writes makes a big impact on the audience because of his change in atmosphere and the way he makes Mr Brigg's lines play the nasty teacher is very important to the story line and makes the story very much more interesting for the audience. From the start of the story to the end of the story, the audiences views on Mr Brigg's change. Scenes 5 and 35 reveal a lot about Mr Brigg's personality. The cultural setting of the play is very important to the story line. The play is based in the 1970's in Liverpool. Liverpool was a town of high unemployment and very run down. There were many social problems and they had a big manufacturing industry. Liverpool was and is very well known for Football and in Music with bands such as the Beatles originating from Liverpool. Mrs Kay describes the area on which the students have been brought up in in many of her quotes when talking to Mr Brigg's about why she is going to give them a nice day
Tv Review
Kicking off to a good start? You've just come in from a hard days work at the office and the infernal screech of "when's dinner ready", is enough to make you contemplate whether life is worth living. So when ITV's Driving Mum And Dad Mad appears on your screen it's less appealing than actually knuckling down to make the little angels their fish fingers and chips. As relaxing as watching a bunch of hyperactive juvenile delinquents threaten their parents with a corkscrew is, after the first half an hour I was already ordering my children to "turn the f****** TV off". So couples who are expecting, turn away now... The programme thought they could turn brats into darlings with the click of a finger, but with Jamie a 7 year old violent mother beater, it looked as if they had their work cut out. So a group of dysfunctional families travelled hundreds of miles for a parenting session with the patronising ex school teacher Claire Halsey, when it was obvious from the viewers point of view the kids just needed a rest from their play stations and their toy guns. From the outset, I felt sorry for the poor parents and what they had to endure daily, yet as the programme progressed I realised the kids were the ones I felt any slice of remorse for. Perhaps if the parents had stayed at school rather then dropped out to have a kid at 16, they might have known how to raise one and wouldn't
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. Introduction. The play that I am writing about is called 'Our Day Out' and it was written by Willy Russell. The main theme of the play is to tell the reader what life was like for people (mainly children) in Liverpool in the 1970s and what their education was like. During the 1970s 100 000 jobs were lost in Liverpool because the docks had been closed and all of the factories were closing down. The unemployment went up, the streets got dirty, there was no money in education and the only thing that the kids could do was play on the streets and get into trouble. I think that this is like the play by Willy Russell because all the factories were closing down, the docks had been closed and there was rubbish all over the streets. It's also the same because all the kids had given up on life and their teachers had given up on them ever getting a job. The play is about under achieving children who have been given the chance to go on a trip to Conwy Castle in Wales. Their teacher knows that there is no hope for them and they don't want to learn anything. She is also a soft teacher so the headmaster decides to send a strict teacher along with her. As well as the castle they also went to
'Our Day Out' - How does Russell interest us in the characters of Carol and Briggs? How are comedy and tragedy used to good effect in the play?
Catherine Evans 11s 12th February 2004 Post 1914 drama: Willy Russell's 'Our Day Out' How does Russell interest us in the characters of Carol and Briggs? How are comedy and tragedy used to good effect in the play? In the book 'Our Day Out', Willy Russell interests us in the characters of Carol and Briggs by showing us the contrast of personalities and the difference in lifestyle between the two. The main differences between Carol and Briggs are that Carol is from a deprived background, while the teacher Briggs, probably doesn't understand what kind of life Carol has out of school hours. In scene One, the introduction describes Carol. It says that she is 'rushing along the street wearing a school uniform which doubles as a street outfit and her Sunday best.' This tells us already that she is poor and can't afford new clothes, so she has to wear her school uniform most of the time. When Carol is talking to Les, the lollipop man, she tells him that they are going on a trip. She tells him that only the 'kids who go to the Progress Class' are going, and explains that children go there if they are 'backward'. This shows us that Carol doesn't have a very high opinion of herself and she has a low self-esteem. On the bus, Carol sits by Mrs Kay, the Progress Class' teacher. As she looks out at the passing Liverpool,
How effective and realistic is Willy Russell's presentation of the school trip in 'our day out'?
How effective and realistic is Willy Russell's presentation of the school trip in 'our day out'? 'Our day out' was written as a television play in 1977 but taken directly from Willy Russell's personal experience of teaching in a Liverpool comprehensive school in 1974. Not only does Willy Russell's experience stem from his time in teaching but also from being a pupil at two Liverpool comprehensive schools, leaving at 15 with no qualifications. This gives him a good understanding of situations described in the play from the point of view of both children and teachers. Liverpool at that time had a large working class population and a lot of poverty, with huge social problems. Unemployment was growing and many of the children would have had little hope of a career and a good future. In those days children without academic aptitude in secondary education were often regarded as hopeless and left to sink or swim. Russell fully understood this as it was his own background. I believe that the school trip in 'our day out' is realistic because, not only is the characterisation excellent, both students and teachers are portrayed honestly and are given a lot of depth for such a short play, but also the dialogue is naturalistic. In addition, the general set up for the play is quite believable, the teacher of a remedial department organising a day trip, then at the last minute a
The major themes in ‘Our Day Out’ are the lack of Education, Opportunity and Deprivation in the inner city, show how Willy Russell makes the Audience aware of these ideas.
The major themes in 'Our Day Out' are the lack of Education, Opportunity and Deprivation in the inner city, show how Willy Russell makes the Audience aware of these ideas. 'Our Day Out' is all about a day in 1970, in the lives of poor Liverpudlian kids. In Liverpool the back streets were covered in kids doing nothing and also adults as the Docks were closing down which led to high unemployment. Also the factories, where the unemployed would go closed down as well, so at the time in the play the amount of people unemployed and on benefit was high and the benefit wouldn't be able to support all of them. The kids are in a progress class which means that they don't really get taught a lot. They aren't clever; they are rejects! In the play we learn about the language of the characters, what they say, do, and what they say about other characters. We find in the play a lot of everyday conversations and from this there are different languages, formal, which is not used regularly and non-formal which is used a lot. It is mainly slang as the kids come from an area of uneducated parents, for example 'wanna' and 'nottin', these are common words in the play and many more are used. With the play having everyday conversations it makes the play sound more realistic. And people watching will understand it. Willy Russell puts his thoughts in most of the character's mouths and this is how he