Our Day Out Literature Coursework
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... 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














