Our Day Out Literature Coursework
Our Day Out is a book set in the rundown area of Liverpool. It is set in the year 1977, which is also the year it was written by the author Willy Russel.
The book is about a class of intellectually challenged children who go on a school trip to Conwy castle; this is quite special to them because most of them have never left Liverpool. Willy Russel has set out to give more of an incite into these children's lives. His message comes across clearly in the way he shows social conditions of the play. The setting is in the deprived section of Liverpool around the late 70's when there was a lot of unemployment due to the docks closing down. Briggs shows an interest in this and is annoyed by the status of the docks.
"There's a wealth of history that won't be here much longer."
This shows that Briggs has a love for this part of Liverpool even if he is nasty to everyone who lives there.
Because this is causing high unemployment (the closing of the docks), a lot of people are forced to make money from ways they don't really want to. This is shown in a conversation on the bus when Andrews tries to get a cigarette off Digga and Reily and they say he can buy his own because his mums loaded, he denies this and then Reily says;
"Well she should be.... All the fellars she picks up on parly."
This is implying that the boy's mum is a prostitute, what is worse still is that Andrews does not try and deny these allegations. Briggs catches Andrews smoking soon after and starts to talk about it with him, he asks what his mum thinks, to which the boy replies;
"Sir, Sir, me mum says nott'n about it but when me dad comes home, sir, he belts me."
Our Day Out is a book set in the rundown area of Liverpool. It is set in the year 1977, which is also the year it was written by the author Willy Russel.
The book is about a class of intellectually challenged children who go on a school trip to Conwy castle; this is quite special to them because most of them have never left Liverpool. Willy Russel has set out to give more of an incite into these children's lives. His message comes across clearly in the way he shows social conditions of the play. The setting is in the deprived section of Liverpool around the late 70's when there was a lot of unemployment due to the docks closing down. Briggs shows an interest in this and is annoyed by the status of the docks.
"There's a wealth of history that won't be here much longer."
This shows that Briggs has a love for this part of Liverpool even if he is nasty to everyone who lives there.
Because this is causing high unemployment (the closing of the docks), a lot of people are forced to make money from ways they don't really want to. This is shown in a conversation on the bus when Andrews tries to get a cigarette off Digga and Reily and they say he can buy his own because his mums loaded, he denies this and then Reily says;
"Well she should be.... All the fellars she picks up on parly."
This is implying that the boy's mum is a prostitute, what is worse still is that Andrews does not try and deny these allegations. Briggs catches Andrews smoking soon after and starts to talk about it with him, he asks what his mum thinks, to which the boy replies;
"Sir, Sir, me mum says nott'n about it but when me dad comes home, sir, he belts me."
