THE EXTRA CHARACTER IN THE UP SERIES.

THE EXTRA CHARACTER IN THE UP SERIES. THE UP SERIES from the beginning, in 1963, was avowedly about the effects of the British class system. (There were only a couple middle-class children and only four girls chosen at the beginning—the women’s movement was apparently not anticipated). And the class system is important throughout. However as the children in THE UP SERIES, get older, they begin, even at 14 and certainly by 21, to resist the framework that the director/narrator is placing on their lives. The director/narrator becomes a character in the story, and one who is attempting to describe their lives in ways they reject.