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Detective fiction is a sub-genre of mystery and crime fiction, in which a professional or amateur detective investigates a crime. This comparative analysis is dedicated to the comparison of two detective novels, namely A Study in Scarlet written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie. Both of these […]

In this essay I will be explaining and discussing the main theme in the play ‘Our day out’. I will use the scenes in the play to show how author Willy Russell made the audience aware of the lack of education and opportunities for young people in the inner city of Liverpool in the 70s. […]

The popular play and TV series our day out, written by Willy Russell was set in Liverpool in the 1970 ‘s. At this time Britain was in the middle of an economic recession and huge job losses were a result of this. Because of the high unemployment levels, social deprivation was at a high, with […]

Well-known playwright, Willy Russell, wrote the play ‘Our Day Out’ in the 1970s. ‘Our Day Out’ turned out to be such a successful play that in the early 80s a major national channel (i. e. Channel 4) transformed it into a short film lasting approximately 90 minutes. The play is about a group of secondary […]

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 […]

‘Our day out’ by Willy Russell is set in the inner city of Liverpool in the 1970’s. The play opens in a poor comprensive class on the day of a school outing to Wales. The characters are Mrs Kay, Mr Briggs, Colin, Carol, Andrews, Moris, Reilly, Digga, Linda , and Milton e. t. c. The […]

In this assignment I am going to focus on the way that Willy Russell uses the story of a school trip to raise a number of points about the way society treats individuals. Before I do that, I will consider the social and historical background of Willy Russell. Willy Russell’s own experience of education and […]

‘Our Day Out’ is a play first seen on television, it was written by Willy Russell in 1977. Mrs. Kay teaches a class with learning problems and decides to take them on a coach trip. I will be focusing on the characters ‘Mrs. Kay’ and ‘Mr. Briggs’. The scenes that I will be focusing on […]

Willy Russell was born in 1937 in Winston, Lancashire. He grew up in Knowsley’s, a village just outside Liverpool. He described his school, Woodfall secondary as “chaotic, badly run. ” He also attended Rainford Secondary which he left at the age of 15 with no formal qualifications. After school, he worked at a lady hairdresser […]

The play ‘Our Day Out’ is set in Liverpool and on a school trip to Conwy Castle. It is set in the 1970s; children would have been separated into two different schools – grammar school and the comprehensive school. The play is about the progress class, which is a class for children with reading/writing problems. […]

Willy Russell, the writer of Our Day Out, drew inspiration from his own tumultuous experiences to create characters like Carol Chandler. Carol, who appears as the first student in the play, wears her school uniform as her Sunday best and carries all of her supplies in a plastic bag. This detail reflects the youth of […]

“Our Day Out” is a 20th-century drama play. It is written by Willie Russell and is based around a school trip from Inner city Liverpool to Conway Castle, Wales. During the play, we see visible differences between the two leading teachers Mrs. Kay and Mr. Briggs (whose name in the play was just seen as […]

It’s the mid-1970’s: Britain is in an economic recession, working practices are changing, many businesses are closing and numerous big employers are forced to shut down – including Liverpool’s main industry – the docks… Against this background of huge unemployment Willy Russell chronicles a school outing to Conwy castle with the school “progress class”. The […]

Our day out was written by Willy Russell, he uses many ways to give the impression of escape such as language, historical content, dramatic devices and most of all, his characters. As well as creating this theme, around it, he makes a very good intriguing play.The main view of escape is through the children, especially […]

The “Our Day Out” play highlights the economically and socially underprivileged section of society, serving as a representation of the world we live in. Set in a period of high unemployment and socio-economic divide, the play follows the journey of a group of schoolchildren from Liverpool’s “Progress Class” as they embark on one of their […]

`Our Day Out` was written by Willy Russell to show people life in the inner city of Liverpool. There are a lot of scenes which create tension, excitement and disappointment in Our Day Out. One humorous part is Les the lollipop man, just after Carol has explained what the purpose of the progress class is, […]

The play ‘Our Day Out’ written by Willy Russell is about a progress class from the heart of Liverpool that go on a trip to Conway Castle in Wales. Mr Briggs and Carol are involved in the cliff scene. The cliff scene is about Carol sneaking away from the others to the cliff, she is […]

The play, Our Day Out, written by Willy Russell is set in the inner city of Liverpool in the mid 1970’s. Willy Russell chronicles a school outing to Conwy Castle with the school progress class. The progress class has a very bleak future and is underacheivers of their school. The title ‘Day Out’ reflects the […]

Over the past few weeks our class has been studying “Our Day Out”, a drama written by Willy Russell. It was first aired in December 1977 on the BBC. It is about a school trip to Wales for the ‘progress class’ of a Liverpool school accompanied by four teachers, two with very different ideas of […]

Despite what is commonly believed, the main character in Fight Club doesn’t have a happy life. He goes to a job he hates every day, only to return home and face criticism from his family. It isn’t until the introduction of the influential characters Tyler and Risky that some hope for a better life arises. […]

American Beauty is a story of American suburbia, showing how easily the happy facade of American life washes off and how fatally flawed the American dream really is. At the beginning of the film Lester seems happy in a fairly good job with a nice family, however this is not true, Lester hates his job, […]

The film American Beauty features a man named Lester, who is approximately 35 years old and whose impending death is hinted at early on. This non-linear storytelling technique generates suspense by sparking questions in viewers’ minds, such as “What caused his death?”, “Who killed him?”, or “When will he meet his demise?”. Within this essay, […]