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Drama John Ruganda, Shreds of Tenderness Using illustrations from John Ruganda’s play Shreds of Tenderness”, write an essay entitled, “Opportunism thrives in adversity”.

      

Drama John Ruganda, Shreds of Tenderness Using illustrations from John Ruganda’s play Shreds of Tenderness”, write an essay entitled, “Opportunism thrives in adversity”.

  

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Lydia
Shreds of tenderness by John Ruganda.

I. Introduction
It can either be general or contextualized.
In Shreds of Tenderness by John Ruganda people actually take advantage of the political instability to either enrich themselves or engage in activities that benefit their greed for property or sexual desires such characters include; Katali Kawe, major General Ali, soldiers and Odie.

O. I. Odie.
After Wak has gone to exile after the police have failed to arrest him, Odie takes advantage of his absence to inherit the family estate. While Wak is suffering as a refugee in a foreign country, Odie advertises in the orbituary column of the Argus paper that Wak is dead. He then goes ahead to the lands office and changes everything to his name using corrupt means. This is to ensure that he disinherits from
Wak all the property his father had bequeathed him. He takes advantage of the restlessness in the country to achieve this.

O. II. Katalikawe.
During this period of unrest, people like Katalikawe endears themselves to the military regime. They use this opportunity to amass a lot of wealth. He never went beyond form four and he never used to perform well in class. But when Wak comes back from exile, his astonished at the amount of wealth he has suddenly acquired when ten years ago he was very poor.

O. III. Boss /head of state.
He colludes with foreigners to siphon the country’s resources for his own benefit. For example when Odie is enacting how he had betrayed Wak to Boss. He says that Boss is ignoramus, he is hoarding food to the boers in South Africa, he engaged in slave trade with the Arabs and he has acquired another skyscraper in the West.

O. IV. Foreigners.
They also take advantage of the restlessness to pretend to be supporting the group in power, yet their aim is to take the natural resources in the country.

O. V. Major General Ali.
He also takes advantage of the prevailing situation to use his position to force Stella to have a love affair with him yet he is the same man who had signed the death warrant of her father.

O. VI. Soldiers.
The soldiers serving the military regime also take advantage of the political instability to raid Stella’s school, rape nuns and girls. Stella is hospitalized left pregnant.She is unable to sit her ‘A’ level exams. This is to satisfy their sexual desires.

O. VII. Odie.
Works for the SRB as an informer with the purpose of doing away with people he deems as his enemies to buy has peace and security. E.g. Pepe, Daudi, Wak.
Expect four well illustrated points
lydiajane74 answered the question on November 9, 2017 at 14:03

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