The Children's Thoughts of Mrs. Kay in Our Day Out
In the introduction I am going to use a paragraph to describe what the
children think about Mrs Kay and Les's quote about Mr Briggs. In the
story, Reilly describes Miss Kay as 'ace'. When Les stops Mr Briggs at
the crossing his says to a child 'I got him that time. 'Arrogant get
that one is. I think this means that Les has tried to stop him in the
mornings before but has failed'.
Firstly I am going to describe Mrs Kay's and Mr Brigg's relationship
with the pupils.
Mrs Kay seams friendly with the pupils and plays football with them,
but Briggs is more formal with and shouts. Mrs Kay sees the
difficulties in the pupils and is sympathetic. A quote for this is 'we
cant come al the way to the seaside and not go down to the beach.
Briggs doesn't see the problems that the children have and treats like
them like any other children. When they are at the castle Briggs says
'What does perpendicular mean?' A pupil answers him and he is laughed
at. Mrs Kay doesn't enforce any rules on the children and lets them do
as they please. Mrs Kay told the driver of the bus that the lead
terrible lives so he felt sorry for them. She said to another member
of staff the 'She lied like hell'. Mrs Kay lied for the children so I
think that the children may lie as well thinking that it is the right
thing to do. While Mr Briggs thinks that all children should be
treated the same with problems or not. Therefore he acts hard on the
children and is strict, for example 'Reilly. Dickson. Sit down!
Mrs Kay messes around with the pupils. 'A game of football is in
progress. Mrs Kay is in goal.' At this stage in the story Mr Briggs
sees that it is a farce and refuse to cooperate for the rest of the
trip.
Secondly, I intend to explore both teachers' opinions about
discipline.
Mrs Kay lets them run free in the shop, steeling money and food,
taking from the zoo and running a mockery inside of the castle.
In the zoo, Briggs trusts the children to go around the zoo sensibly,
while he has a cup of coffee with Mrs Kay. Some evidence for this is
'All right Mrs Kay. We'll trust them to act responsibly. When they get
back on the bus later, all the children are quite, which is a bit
unusual. Then the zookeepers come on board and take away the animals.
Throughout chapter one of Fun Home, Alison Bechdel portrays artifice and art as two very similar but distinct things; both overlapping and making it hard to differentiate between what is what. Art, in her view, is the truth, and a skill that has to be mastered. On the other hand, artifice contains partial, or full, amounts of falsehood; it covers up the truth in some way but contains art in itself. Artifice can be, like art, something mastered, but can also be a coping mechanism to cover up something good or bad. Bechdel turns both art and artifice into a very interlinked, combined, version of the two forms. When truth and falsehood are combined, after awhile, it becomes a challenge to distinguish between the two; evidently true to herself.
In Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" an old woman's light is slowly fading out and memories from her past are phasing in and out of her head as she lives out her final moments. The times she was "jilted" are pouring out of her memories, releasing themselves and allowing her the peaceful death she so desires. She has good memories: memories of her children, memories of her husband, and memories of her silly father: "Her father had lived to be one hundred and two years old and had drunk a noggin of strong hot toddy on his last birthday. He told the reporters it was his daily habit, and he owed his long life to that" (Porter 2). But it is the bad memories she's letting go of, the memories of her many "jiltings". Her children surround her as she dies, floating about like balloons above her. But she doesn't want to go yet she has so much she still wants to do. Granny Weatherall had been through a difficult life, full of hardships that shaped her into a strong, fiercely independent woman. Because she had lived past sixty and was now eighty, she had "[gotten] over the idea of dying [long ago]" (2). She wanted to live to be one hundred and two like her father and play jokes on the reporters. Besides, there was "always so much to be done" (1); why go now when she has so much to offer her children and grandchildren?
The Ways that Mr Briggs and Mrs Kay are Presented in Our Day Out by Willie Russell
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in two different scenes: the scene at the kitchen table, and the scene on the
forced to look the other way. While it would be convenient to believe that the
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