FORM 3

APRIL,2025
HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENT
i)Read and write notes on The Samaritan Act 1 , scene 1 and 2.

Act1 Scene 1- The Failed Award

The setting is at Sagrada secondary school hall at around 10.00 am. This school is on a
hill in Maracas municipality. The teachers and students are seated and Mr. Carmona,
the school deputy principal walks in and goes straight to the podium. There is a silence.
He greets everyone and the students respond in chorus.

He informs them that the Samaritan, the winning innovation in the years secondary
schools national innovation competition, will be officially launched in the municipality.
The event will be presided over by his worship Hon. Mossi, The Mayor. The Mayor, few
distinguished municipal leaders and members of the local school board have arrived in
school and will shortly come into the hall. The students were to remain standing and
quiet until the guests are lead into the hall by the principal. Once the guests are seated,
Mr. Carmona tells the students to sit. Shortly, The Mayor walks in alongside the
principal of the school, Ms. Narine, they are followed by the deputy Mayor, Hon.
Ramdaye: the municipality political opposition leader, Hon. Basdeo: the chief executive
officer, Maracas municipality, Mr. Harvester and then the members of the local school
board. Two journalists shortly enter the hall fully armed with their paraphernalia.

The deputy principal asks the students to take their seats. He then invites the school
principal to welcome the guests and lead them through the rest of the Programme. The
principal welcomes the guests to the ceremony in which they officially are to launch the
Samaritan and present a prize to Alvita and Montano, students at Sagrada secondary
school who created the winning innovation.

The principal invites Nicole, the ethics and innovation teacher to introduce the
innovation. Alvita and Montano take us in the future, fifty years to come. They make us
understand what is happening now and they exaggerate what will happen in fifty years
to come. We are exposed to climate change, use of technology and they further tell us

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about their innovation of The Samaritan.

The Mayor rises to his feet, wears his hat, picks his walking stick and walks center
stage. He says that they will neither launch the innovation nor present the prize on this
day, because they need time to reflect on the implications. He sends away the teachers
and students so that they can discuss with the principal and teacher Nicole the way
forward of the innovation. He then tells them that they will not precede the Samaritan as
it may turn out to be a platform for misinformation, lies and witch-hunt.

The Mayor tells the principal that she has it within her powers to find a way around it. He
tells teacher Nicole to figure out a way like writing to the ministry of education indicating
that there are some fundamental errors in it that need to be solved. He attempts to
corrupt them so that they can do away with The Samaritan He raises his voice at the
teacher and reminds her through blackmail that his decision supersedes those of any
education official anywhere in the country (P. 17).

Pirro tries to tell him that they cannot overrule the ministry, but the Mayor proudly says
that he does not argue with a simple chairman of a local school board. Nicole tries to
make him understand that the app has been online for a month hence it has been taken
over by the national information and communications technology cooperation but Mayor
Mossi raises his voice at her even louder and tells her to go and write the letter and
copy my office through your school principal. He wants to find a copy of the letter in his
office in one hours time.

Mossi appreciates all for honouring his call for an emergency meeting. He tells them
that there is a new trend gaining ground in the municipality that could adversely affect
the leaders. He had asked Harvester to buy all the newspapers as all these newspapers
focused on the municipal leaders and had headlines that are extremely damaging.

For Ted and Jaden, these were usual problems leaders must have with the media from
time to time. Jaden further suggests that they need to blackmail the reporters and the
editors with more boxes of chocolate. Bembe also suggests that they can threaten
some of them.

Mossi narrows down the problem to The Samaritan which is the source of information in
these newspapers. Mossi reminds them that he had declined to officially launch this
innovation by students of Sagrada secondary school the previous year because he had
figured out that it could be a problem for them.

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Harvester explains to the members that the Samaritan is mobile application in which
people are posting and sharing any information that they have on the conduct of the
municipality. Seymour proposes that they obtain cash, identify those most active in
posting information and pay them off to stop it. Mossi says that there is public outcry
over sums of money every month without rendering any service (supply of air).
Harvester says that there are many other allegations including drug trafficking, grabbing
of public land, inflation of the costs of the municipal projects, use of proxies to secure
municipal tenders, undertaking shoddy public works and gang warfare. Mossi further
adds that there is a lot of lifestyle audit of individual municipal officials, where they live,
the kind of houses they live in, and their business, the vehicles they own, other
properties in their possession, when the properties were acquired and a lot of other
personal details.

Issues and Thematic Concerns

1. Technology
There are intelligent robots mentioned by Alvita and Montano in their play within a play
(P. 8).

The two students too mention technology for cleaning the air and carbon emissions (P.
9).

Alvita and Montano discuss the role of digital pigeon holes (P. 10).

The Samaritan app has been online for a month now. It has already been taken over by
the national information and communication technology cooperation (P. 18).

Alvita talks about people taking photos and videos of illegal activities that degrade the
environment after which they are posted on the digital pigeon holes (P. 11).

Alvita suggests in a play within a play that drugs are generated to regenerate body cells
and no one could grow old instead young and beautiful and 250 years (P. 8).

She also shares that there are self-driven vehicles ferrying robot to various destinations
to attend meetings and transact businesses (P.9).

The robots will be venturing outside the earth and spend a lot of time conquering new
parts of the words (P.8)

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Intelligent robots were made to replace judges and the police to enhance justice and
there will be no discrimination.

Machines were doing all the work for us, whole factories, hotels, and hospitals were
being run entirely by intelligent machines and robots(P.9)

2. Hope and optimism

Alvita talks about people taking photos and videos of illegal activities that degrade the
environment after which they are posted on the digital pigeon holes (P. 11).

Alvita suggests in a play within a play that drugs are generated to regenerate body cells
and no one could grow old instead young and beautiful and 250 years (P. 8).

She also shares that there are self-driven vehicles ferrying robot to various destinations
to attend meetings and transact businesses.

The robots will be venturing outside the earth and spend a lot of time conquering new
parts of the words (P.8)

Intelligent robots were made to replace judges and the police to enhance justice and
there will be no discrimination.

Machines were doing all the work for us, whole factories, hotels, and hospitals were
being run entirely by intelligent machines and robots (P.9).

3. Bad governance and negligence by the leaders

Alvita says that resources are there, however, they should be well used and put to the
right channel and for the correct purpose (P. 10).

People cannot afford medicine and good food at all and suffer from malnutrition (P. 7).

Crime is too high with people being slaughtered like chicken (P. 7).

Law enforcers and judges serve those who grease their hands, hence people lack an
avenue for protection and justice hence seek a private one or take law into their own
hands.(P. 7).

4. Corruption, Impunity and Blackmail

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Law enforcers and judges serve those who grease their hands, hence people lack an
avenue for protection and justice (P. 7).

Mossi tells the principal that it is in her powers to find a way around (P. 17).

He says that his decision supersedes those of any education officials anywhere in the
country (P.17).

5. Environmental degradation and Climatic change

Alvita talks about people taking photos and videos of illegal activities that degrade the
environment after which they are posted on the digital pigeon holes (P. 11).

Montano predicts the future world where the cities have a bad stench because cleaning
water was very scarce after the climatic change (P. 6).

Montano too shares that there are unpredictable weather patterns, it hardly rains (P. 6).

Montano says that people begun to eat strange things like insects, crawling creatures,
rodents and sea creatures (P. 6).

Once the weather patterns change, life expectancy drops drastically (P. 7).

6. Hopelessness and Desperation

People cannot afford medicine and good food at all and suffer from malnutrition (P. 7).

Montano shares that millions of young people were loitering aimlessly in the streets and
villages without gainful employment. All of them were poor hungry and angry (P. 5).

Montano too says crime is too high with people being slaughtered like chicken (P. 7).

She further shares that law enforcers and judges serve those who grease their hands
hence people lack an avenue for protection and justice hence seek a private one or take
law into their own hands (P. 7).

7. Poverty and unemployment/joblessness

Montano shares that millions of young people were loitering aimlessly in the streets and
villages without gainful employment. All of them were poor hungry and angry (P. 5).

Montano tells Alvita that their country has been producing graduates every year that the

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jobs it is able to create (P. 5).

8. Education
Sagrada secondary school is an institution where education is offered. It has students
like Alvita and Montano who are creative and innovative. They are mentored by Nicole.
There is a deputy by the name Carmona and the principal Narine who supports their
program.

Montano tells Alvita that their country has been producing graduates every year that
the jobs it is able to create (P. 5).

Language use and Stylistic Devices

1. Imagery

a. Hyperbole/ Exaggeration/ Overstatement

Montano too tells Alvita what she sees in future, the way your nose was running as
though you had a drum of fluids in the middle of your head (P. 6).”

Montano tells Alvita you had a fertile imagination (P. 8).

Nicole tells the students What an overheated imagination (P. 9).”

Mossi says, I would especially be delighted if the medicine for regenerating my body
cells was discovered today. That would enable me live for four hundred and twenty-two
more years (P. 14 and 15).”

Mossi shares, “I accidentally swallowed a whole toothpick (P.16).”

Nicoles movement is exaggerated with, Her sharp footsteps can be heard reverberating
in the corridor like castanets (P. 18).

b. Vivid description
The scene is introduced with an in-depth description of the setting. We are told Chairs
and tables are arranged in three rows with two passageways, one on either side of the
middle row (P. 1).

Ms. Narine is described as, She is motherly, tall plump lady in her late fifties (P. 3)”.

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Ms. Narine is described as, She is motherly, tall plump lady in her late fifties (P. 3)”.

Nicole is portrayed as, She is dressed in her trade mark style comprising flowery
banarasi silk sari and a headscarf (P. 3)

Further description shows her as, She is a young, tall, light skinned lady of medium
build, a renowned beauty and an uncomprising moralist (P. 3).

Mayor is a tall heavy man, called Mossi (P. 2).

Nicole is described as She is spotting a wavy side pony-tail hairstyle and is smartly
dressed in a black skirt and a white blouse (P. 3-4).

c. Personification
Montano tells Alvita, Your nose was running (P. 6).

Montano informs Alvita, You hard a fertile imagination (P. 8).”

Basdeo says “It will be a delicious new dawn in our islands (P. 19).”

d. Simile

You just send a text message on the App and it spreads like a wild bushfire (P. 16).

Her sharp footsteps can be heard reverberating in the corridor like castanets (P. 18).

People slaughtered like chicken (P. 7).

e. Metaphor
Montano tells Alvita, You hard a fertile imagination (P. 8).

f. Symbolism
Montano says we better discuss which side of the fence that bird will fly- when it
eventually decides to fly (P. 9).The bird represents the Municipal leaders who have to
make the decision for the state and citizens.

2. Euphemism

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Montano tells Alvita, Your nose was running (P. 6).

3. Sarcasm
Mossi sarcastically says he would especially be delighted by the medicine for
regenerating his body cells if it was discovered today. That would enable him to live for
four hundred and twenty two more years (P. 14).

Mossi sarcastically refers to the Samaritan App as an incredible innovation that they
have to discuss the way forward of it after students leave, only to tell them that he will
not continue with this Thing.(P. 15).

Ramdaye says they might spread another rumor on the platform and Mossi may
swallow another toothpick (P.16).

With a sarcastic grin, Mossi comments on Basdeos delicious smell of the new dawn as,
It is the smell most likely of berries or corn on cobs, they are delicacies for occupants
(P. 19).”

4. Allusion
Alvita says they named The Samaritan after the parable of the Good Samaritan
narrated in the good book (P. 13).

5. Rhetorical Questions
Montano asks Alvita the possibility of better change, What with all these criminal gangs
in the Municipality? (P. 8).

Alvita asks Montano, Havent you read about decision-making algorithm (P. 8).

Alvita asks, What is so special about developing an artificial police officer or judge (P.
8).

6. Play within a play

Alvita and Montano showcase the future and they imagine of a world of despair with a
degraded environment, malnourishment, crime, and poverty contrasted with a world
where technology brings hope in the judicial sector and human life span too (P. 4- 13).

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 7. Satire
The Mayor and his leaders reject the best incredible project of The Samaritan aimed to
change the Municipality and the situation of the citizens. Within few minutes Mossi
releases students and tells the principal and students that they will not proceed with the
rewarding.

The play within a play is a satire of what may happen in future.

Montano tells Alvita that their country has been producing graduates every year that the
jobs it is able to create (P. 5).

8. Irony
It is ironical that Mossi, the Mayor says he had an express mandate given to him by the
people of Maracas to protect their public interest, yet he has an intention of blocking the
advancement of the Samaritan App innovation that could save them (P. 18).

9. Elipsis
Pirro says, Pardon me your worship, but they cannot overrule the minster… (P.18).

Mossi stammers when talking to Nicole that she should figure a way. And further says
that in it that you need to attend to get when I mean? (P. 17).

Character Portrayal and Characterisation

1. The Principal-Narine

a. Firm
The principal is said to have a very strong personality (P. 3).

Role the principal

In this act, she is more of a stock character.

2. Mossi

a. Opulent and flashy

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Mossi has more phones. He puts his three phones.(P. 2).

b. Temperamental
He raised his voice while addressing Nicole (P. 17).

c. Arrogant and Proud

He says that he cannot argue with a simple chairman of a local board (P. 18).

d. Dictatorial
He dictates what the school should do, when and how. He commands Mossi, Go now
and write that letter and copy my office through your school principal(P. 18).”

e. Cautious
Mossi thinks the innovation might hurt his reputation and tells the principal and Nicole, I
declined to do so when I figured out the innovation might be a problem for us (P. 15)”.

Role of the Mossi

He builds themes of bad governance and technology as she talks about it.

He also brings out language use such as irony, satire and ellipsis.

He enables us see how firm and realistic Nicole is.

He also develops the plot as an inciting action of stopping the rewarding of the app
commences.

3. Nicole

a. Realistic
She tells Mossi that she may not be able to say anything about the App. She says The
App has been online for a months now and it has been taken over by The National
Information and Communications Technology Corporation and there is little they can do
now (P. 18).

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Role of Nicole
We come to realize how insecure Mossi is because of her innovation with the students.

We also meet styles like satire because of her conflicting view with Mossi.

We expect the play as she resists Mossis suggestion of doing away with The Samaritan

4. The students

a. Innovative and creative

The conflicting aspect of a bright future and a dark future results from their strained
imagination

b. Courageous
They confidently stand before the rest of the learners and the Mayors team to present
their play and App.

Role of the students

They show how focused Nicole is and how selfish the Mayor is.

They set the plot in motion with their play and innovation.

They build the play within a play.

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Act I Scene II-The Rift
It takes place in the morning second Monday of January the following year at the
Maracas municipal headquarters in the Mayor’s boardroom. The room displays
affluence. It is an urgent meeting convened by the mayor comprising of key leaders in
the municipal administration. Present members in this meeting are the Municipal Chief
Executive Officer, Mr. Harvester; the principal judge, Justice Ian Jaden, The Municipal
Inspector General of Police, Inspector Bembe, Hon.Ted, secretary Department of
Health and Environment; Hon Seymour ,secretary, Department of planning and
development and the Deputy Mayor, Hon. Ramdaye.

It is an emergency meeting called by the Mayor Hon. Mossi after attending a closing
ceremony at Sagrada secondary school. The skit is also available on the App called
The Samaritan which is likely to be have been viewed by millions of people.

Mossi finds out whether the members have read the Newspapers .They negatively
swing their heads confirming that they havent read the Newspapers. The Mayor then
picks the newspapers and reads the headlines aloud. The mayor finds out that the
headlines are exposing the rot in Maracas municipality.

All of them have suggestive titles, for example, The Caribbean Watch writes Municipal
leadership: A Criminal Enterprise, The Insight writes Rot in Maracas Municipal Council
Exposed, and The Spotlight writes Municipal Leaders Face Imprisonment.

The Mayor is worried about this exposure and to him he is aware that the source of all
this information is the skit organized by Nicole at Sagrada secondary school.
Surprisingly, Ted claims that such headlines are common. According to him rot is a
common thing in Maracas Municipality.

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Jaden feels that to stop such writings in the newspapers the reporters and editors
should be given boxes of chocolate. The judge displays corruption meaning he is an
unjust judge.

Ted seems to be more aware of the situation; he is relaxed and not even surprised
about the Samaritan. According to him such online allegations cannot form a strong
basis for prosecution and conviction. According to the Newspapers Mossi points out that
Ted and Seymour are the culprits who supplied Air whereby details of payments to the
company have been unearthed. Harvester goes further stating the allegations
unearthed by the Newspapers; drug trafficking, grabbing of public land, inflation of the
cost of municipal living, undertaking shoddy public works , murder and gang warfare.
Bembe is accused of illegally owning Madingo Golf Club.

In this meeting members are thinking on how they can intimidated the developers of this
app, humiliate even the press men just to cleanse themselves of the menace. Some
people like Harvester and the Jaden remain liberal minded. Jaden states that he does
not wish to be part of the criminal proposals, he says he is not ready to help clean the
mess. Seymour proposes that they approach the boy and the girl to the matter. Mossi
feels that it is the Ethics and innovation teacher to be dealt with. Harvester believes that
its only the truth that can set everyone free, he feels that such can be done through the
conduct of a truth and reconciliation exercise.

At the end of this scene a rift occurs between Mossi, Ted and Seymour. Seymour and
Ted feel that Mossi is not willing to help them out of the trouble .They are planning to
mobilize the members of the Council Chambers against Mossi who threatens them that
he is the smoke that thunders.

Issues and Thematic Concerns

1. Role of Media
The media has played a major role in enlightening the public on the rot in the
municipality. Newspapers like, The Caribbean Watch, The Sentinel, The Insight and
The Spotlight clearly uses The Samaritan app to come up with the rot affecting the
Municipality (P. 21)

Jaden says that he has read the Caribbean Watch, and The Spotlight to understand the
App better (P. 23).

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 2. Poor leadership
Mossis leadership is one that cannot be envied by anyone willing to be a good leader.
Every sector is stinking; he is surprised that a teacher in Sagrada secondary school has
organized a skit that is displaying rot in Maracas municipality. He learns later that other
leaders have been stealing money from the municipality. This puts him in conflict with
other leaders like Ted and Seymour (P. 35 and 36).

3. Corruption
The aim of the App is to promote the public good by exposing corruption and other
services (P. 23).

There is public outcry over companies that bill the municipal council huge sums of
money every month without rendering the services (P. 24).

There are issues such as grabbing of public land, inflation of the cost of municipal
tenders, undertaking shoddy public works (P. 25).

Corruption and abuse of office in the municipality is being fought by the Samaritan (P.
26).

Seymour suggests to Mossi, Ted and Basdeo, justify relocation of funds on need to
address environmental degradation. This money can be used to fight their cases that
are without doubt coming. They have to get money to fight the cases and enough of it
(P. 31 and 33).

The members of the Municipal council of members have unnecessary meetings and
sign seating allowances that they do not deserve to receive (P. 34).

Mossi said you have in the past forced my hand into misallocating funds by making
unreasonable demands like travel allowance, sitting allowance, unnecessary loans and
mortgages (P. 34).

Jaden suggests that all they need is to give the reporters and the editors more boxes of
chocolate (P. 22).

Seymour says, what you need to do is to obtain some cash, identify the most active in
posting information and pay them to stop it (P. 24).”

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they have acquired so fast that they have big vehicles and are wealthy (P. 35).

4. Technology
Harvester talks about The Samaritan as a mobile application (P. 23).

There is cyber bullying and sharing of pornography material in school (P. 27).

5. Blackmail and impunity

Seymour tells Mossi to budget using a supplementary plan. When he refuses referring
to the coercion they have put him into in past, Seymour insists that he is part of the
crimes that have been committed under his watch and he is aware of the money Mossi
has stolen. Therefore, he has to be wise and come up with a supplementary estimate of
expenditure (P. 33-34).

Mossi reminds Ted and Seymour how poor they were and when Ted responds to him
he says that Mossi will take responsibility of all the rot in the Municipality. Seymour also
tells him, he wont get away with it, they will mobilize the members of the council
chamber against Mossi (P. 36).

Mossi threatens others that being Mossi-oa-Tunya the smoke that thunders, he does
not stop at anything and can do what he wants to anyone (P. 36).

He also tells Seymour that he will arrest and have him persecuted (P. 34 -35).

6. Misuse of power and intimidation

Bembe suggests that they can all the journalists or threaten some of them (P. 22).

7. Climate change and Environmental degradation

Seymour says, Waste disposal system in our town is in a terrible state. There is
garbage all over the place and the drains are broken. It is a serious health hazard (P.
33).”

Stylistic devices

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 1. Imagery

a. Vivid Description
A spacious rectangular-shaped room with a large pine oval table with high back
executive office chairs (P. 20).

b. Simile
I am as broke as a church mouse (P. 31).

c. Hyperbole
Mossi tells Ted and Seymour, I can make you see real smoke and can strike harder
than thunder (P. 35)

2. Elipsis
Mossi says, Look you fools, the situation is very bad and we cannot.(P. 35).

3. Idiomatic expression
Over my dead body (P. 33).

4. Rhetorical Questions
Mossi asks Ted and Seymour, How can you justify your current financial status? (P.
35).”

He further asks them, Who doesnt know you have stolen the money? (P. 35).”

5. Irony
It is ironical that Jaden is a judge who should be maintaining law and order , yet when
he meets Mossi, Ted, and Seymour he argues, .what matters is not what you do, but
how you do it (P. 29). He goes further stating that one can fly into forbidden territory and
still get away with it, provided its done below the radar (P. 29). This clearly shows that
he is ready to justify all injustice in maracas municipality. Furthermore, he believes in
corruption. He thinks that the only way to pull down the information from the App is by
use of money to influence their pursuers (P. 31).

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Character portrayal and Characterisation

1. Mossi

a. Abusive
He insults Seymour and Ted, Look you fools.(P. 35),you senseless thieves(P. 35).”

b. Temperamental
He shouts at Seymour and Ted You senseless thieves, You were elected just the other
day, as poor and jigger infested hoodlums (P. 35).”

c. Proud
He calls himself, Smoke that thunders .This is to mean that he is unstoppable (P. 35 &
36).

d. Informed
The mayor seems more informed than his staff. He follows up on matters in Maracas
Municipality. He even reads newspapers, and even attending functions like that at
Sagrada just to find out what is trending. Through following of current affairs he gets to
understand the situation of his municipality (P. 21).

e. Insecure
He keeps reading newspapers out of fear that the reporters would write about him and
ruin his name (P. 21).

Role of Mossi
He builds themes such as blackmail, impunity, corruption, and fear.

He also portrays other characters such as Ted and Seymour as being selfish, corrupt
and greedy.

He builds the plot as we wait to see how the rally will end and how they will solve their
case.

It is also through his that styles of irony, satire, metaphors come out.

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 2. Harvester

a. Loyal
He does exactly what his boss says. He buys the Newspapers from the vendor as
instructed, I did as you instructed sir (P. 21).

b. Knowledgeable
He knows more about The Samaritan App and how it functions. He states that the
function of the App is to promote the public good by exposing corruption and other vices
(P. 23).

c. Open minded
He gives alternatives on how to avert the court cases from coming up in the first place
(P. 31). He feels that restitution can work better. According to him the truth is only what
can set them free (P. 32).

Role of Harvester
He builds themes of cruelty and violence

He also brings out styles of irony and satire.

He develops Mossi as unreasonable and corrupt.

3. Jaden

a. Enlightened
He reads newspapers often. When Mossi asks whether the members in the meeting
have read the newspaper, its clear that he is the only one who has read it (P. 21).

He also shares that he has read a lot of newspapers (P. 23)

b. Corrupt
He suggests that editors and reports be given boxes of chocolate as a way of luring
them not to disclose the information (P.22).

At some point when responding to Seymour he says, .what matters is not what you do,

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At some point when responding to Seymour he says, .what matters is not what you do,
but how you do it (P. 29). He goes further stating that one can fly into forbidden territory
and still get away with it, provided its done below the radar (P. 29). This clearly shows
that he is ready to justify all injustice in Maracas municipality.

He believes in corruption. He believes that the only way to pull down the information
from the App is by use of money to influence their pursuers (P. 31).

Role of Jaden
Builds the plot with a twist where he is to offer justice yet is involved in injustice.

He also brings out styles such as irony, juxtaposition, and suspense as we wait to see
what will happen.

He builds other characters such as Mossi who now blackmails him.

4. Ramdaye

a. Materialistic and selfish/ egocentric

He says he cannot raise money when Seymour proposes that they raise money to fight
cases that might be brought up against them (P. 31).

b. Unpredictable
At some point he says he has no money since he has loans to service, later on he
states that they take loans or sale their property to raise the money (P. 32).

5. Seymour

a. Schemer
He schemes that the App be alleged that it has a risk of spying on banks and the
confidential documents of the municipal council (P. 28).

b. Corrupt
He believes in corruption. He believes that the only way to pull down the information
from the App is by use of money to influence their pursuers (P. 31).

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 c. Optimistic
He believes that they will manage to fight the case by use of money, he believes that
they can still money by relocating funds so as to fight any case filed against them (P.
35).

d. Unreliable
When matters get worse he turns against Mossi, this is because Mossi is not willing to
protect him. He tells Mossi that they can hound him out of office. He is ready to unearth
Mossis rot. He is ready to mobilize the members of the council Chamber against Mossi
(P. 35 and 36).

Role of Seymour
He develops Mossi as a selfish, corrupt, and unreliable character.

He brings out aspects of blackmail and corruption.

He also builds the plot when he plans to mobilize the members of the council chamber.

6. Ted

a. Fearful
He fears that once everything is tabled in court they are likely to end up in Baneta
Express Prison (P. 25). He keeps wondering in fear whether such online allegations can
form a basis for prosecution (P. 27).

b. Traitorous
He says be cannot be handed to prison. He distances himself from all the rot in
Maracas. He says its Mossis responsibility for the rot in the municipality P.36.

Role of Ted
He brings out themes of fear and betrayal.

He also makes Mossi show how abusive and manipulative he can be.

He brings out aspects of irony and satire.

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