The Characters of Mrs Kay and Mr Briggs in Willy Russell's Our Day Out On 28th December 1977, a play was televised on T.V for the first time. The play, called "Our Day Out", written by Willy Russell, was about a progress class going on a day out to Conwy Castle, in Wales. It focuses on two main characters, Mrs Kay and Mr Briggs, both teachers in an inner-city Liverpool school. Both of these characters are very different in image, behaviour and attitude to teaching. Mrs Kay is a teacher of the progress class. She teaches and helps children who have difficulty in everyday things like reading and writing. Obviously these children are going to need lot more attention and help than others, and for Mrs Kay, this means she has a lot of time and patience for the children. Mrs Kay feels what the kids feel. "Ooh leave them. They've been cooped up for an hour. They'll want to stretch their legs and let off a bit of steam." On the other hand, Mr Briggs is more of a character that likes things to be in order and everything to be in control. His speech id described as "barking" and "staccato". He teaches the examination class. Therefore he's not used to the children on the day out, messing around. Throughout the play Mr Briggs is frantic and frustrated. This is seen in the café scene. "Brigs is frantic" "Stop! Slater…..walk" Briggs doesn't seem to enjoy the company of the children. "You've got some real bright sparks here, Mrs Jay. A right bunch" In the coach, it is obvious that the children have no respect. Mrs Kay doesn't set any rules but she addresses everyone with what she sees as the aim of the day. "We want everyone to enjoy themselves, think of yourselves, but think of others as well" But Briggs has been sent by the headmaster. "I'd just like you to be there and keep an eye on things…. I get the impression she sees education as one long game"
In “The Weekend,” George cheats on Lenore with Sarah, and she still chooses to stay with him and work out their issues. The story by Ann Beattie can relate to “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin because Edna cheats on Leonce with Robert and Alcee Arobin. After learning Edna cheats on him, Leonce decides to stay with Edna to work their relationship out. While nothing is wrong with their significant others, they cheat because something in them is unfulfilled. Lenore knows George cheats because he spends much of his time with the other women, but she never acknowledges it, until she talks with Julie one day; “she’s really the best friend I’ve ever had. We understand things—we don’t always have to talk about them. ‘Like her relationship with George,’
... She comforts the Wilsons, feeds the starving nameless faces when she barely has enough for her own family, works together with the Wainwrights, and as the novel closes she is still directing her assistance to those who are in need any way she can, by helping the starving man and taking control of the situation. She feels that as long as she can hold on to some part of the family, she will see to it that they keep on going.
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Mitch spends every Tuesday with Morrie not knowing when it might be his dear sociology professor’s last. One line of Morrie’s: “People walk around with a meaningless life…This is because they are doing things wrong” (53) pretty much encapsulates the life lessons from Morrie, Mitch describes in his novel, Tuesdays With Morrie. Morrie Schwartz, a beloved sociology professor at Brandeis University, was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), which most people would take as a death sentence. Morrie viewed it differently; he saw it more as an opportunity. This is because he does not follow the so-called “rules” of society. These rules come from the sociological concept of symbolic interaction, the theory that states that an individual’s
“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me…all I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”
“Wait.” Daniel reached across the table and took her hand. “You are special and deserve the best. Please don’t forget that. You deserve to be treated with love and respect no matter what. Never settle for less.”
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Marriages in Puritan society were based on the biblical scripture; ‘wives submit to your husbands’ , with the sincere belief that women were to subject to the husbands and support their needs before their own. ‘My Dear and Loving Husband’ captures Bradstreet’s relationship with her husband as it is plain and simple. Typical of a Puritan marriage, Bradstreet submits to her husband and shows her duty in loving him. ‘If ever man were loved by wife’ then wife is never loved by man but endures to find happiness in submitting to her husband. Bradstreet is setting her own desires aside and replaces them with her responsibilities to her husband; that ‘man were loved by wife’.
“We always do something. I don’t want to keep bothering you.” I said and Ves frowned. He was about to speak, but couldn’t get a word out before his attention turned elsewhere.
Everyone has a story about love in the world, either if it is about happiness or jealousy. Austen incorporates these details into all of her books that she writes with just the right amount. One could say that she had lived a life full of love experience after reading her books. Austen was born on December 16, 1775 in Steventon, United Kingdom. Growing up Austen lived a regular middle class life, her family wasn’t poor nor were they rich. She had a life where she didn’t have to worry about going poor or anything like that. Today when kids reached their teen years, that is when they usually start to really pay attention to boys around them. It was the same for Austen, “since her late teens, Austen had received the attention of suitors, and in
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Tuesdays with Morrie, written by Mitch Albom, is a story of the love between a man and his college professor, Morrie Schwartz. This true story captures the compassion and wisdom of a man who only knew good in his heart and lived his life to the fullest up until the very last breath of his happily fulfilled life. When Mitch learned of Morrie’s illness, the began the last class of Morrie’s life together and together tried to uncover “The Meaning of Life.” These meetings included discussions on everything from the world when you enter it to the world when you say goodbye. Morrie Schwartz was a man of great wisdom who loved and enjoyed to see and experience simplicity in life, something beyond life’s most challenging and unanswered mysteries. Morrie was a one of a kind teacher who taught Mitch about the most important thing anyone can ever learn: life. He taught Mitch about his culture, about trust, and perhaps most importantly, about how to live.
In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Joe is the closet thing Pip has to a brother and father figure in his life. Because Pip’s parents passed when Pip was very young, Pip’s new parents are his strict, unmaternal mother and her husband, Joe, who was“brought up by hand” alongside Pip (8). Joe is described in the book as a “mild, good-natured, sweet tempered, easy-going, foolish, dear fellow” with a “smooth face” and “eyes of such a very undecided blue” (8). Joe is seen more as a brother than a father to Pip because of his kind temperament and childlike attitude. Mrs. Joe is the least kind and forgiving person in the eyes of young Pip. Not only does Mrs. Joe beat and terrorize Pip, but she also beats her husband, Joe. This causes Mrs. Joe
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