chance of passing any examinations. Willy Russell uses this to deal with a range of issues, such as the failure of schools to develop pupils, and the inequality of opportunity. Russell's comedy is effective in doing this as it is showing an amusing story instead of lecturing the audience. Traditional comedy entertains and ends happily, however "Our Day Out" has emotion, realism and the end is not a happy one for all the characters. When Mrs Kay's 'Progress Class' are unleashed for a day's coach
I was walking down a run-down road accompanied only by the rattling tracks of a train zooming right above me, I felt the ground slightly rumble and so did the pigeons as they dispersed into the thick smog covering downtown San Francisco. I continued down the road with my hands firmly glued into my pockets as I passed two husky bikers leaning against the graffiti-ed wall of a run-down convenience store, staring at me as I pass their immaculate Harley’s With my mind drifting off, I stumbled on a rock
a green sash, along with other few other parishioners. The Priest began the services with a recited prayer that everyone read. He welcomed us to the twenty eighth Sunday in ordinary time which is the “largest season of the Liturgical Year” ("Catholic Culture : Ordinary Time : Workshop : What Is Ordinary Time?," n.d.). He told a joke about us being the bus driver, then gave several scenarios, where we thought we needed to keep up with the number of the people on the bus. At the end of the joke