Parliament of owls fee essays and answers

PARLIAMENT OF OWLS ESSAYS AND ANSWERS-SET 3

1. Leaders who use propaganda and deceit are always exposed at the end. Closely referring to Adipo Sidang’s Parliament of Owls, write an essay to demonstrate the truth of this statement.

Introduction

Many leaders thrive in falsehoods as a way of entrenching misrule in the society. This what the owls in Parliament of Owls use so that they cannot continue oppress other birds in the bird kingdom.

ILLUSTRATIONS
D i) Osogo’s family- 30 birds are massacred. Oyundi is sort after because he has become a thorn in the flesh of the leadership. They don’t stop. In the end Oyundi unmasks Money Bags. The king finallys orders for Money Bag’s arrest.

D ii) Even though Oyundi is arrested and put behind bars, it doesn’t stop him from fighting with other birds to kick the owls from parliament and build new institutions.

D iii) Tel Tel is arrested for refusing to be used to spread propaganda. She is out to bring about good governance. The arrest doesn’t silence her. It makes her stronger.

D iv) Iron Lady Owl, is committed to fairness. Despite being dismissed by Money Bag, he fights alongside Oyundi. She is not cowed by the Socialite Owl and faces her head on when she brings up trivial matters.

D v) The death of Arum Tidi was meant to cow the other birds into submission but instead it invigorates them. The like-minded animals rally behind Oyundi and Ogila Nyakirondo. Together they remove Tula Nyongoro and his cronies from the parliament of owls.

Conclusion
It is difficult for propaganda to stop people from bringing about the desired change.

  2.    “Many African governments are dysfunctional and end up mistreating their citizens.” Using appropriate examples from Adipo Sidang’s play Parliament of Owls, write an essay to illustrate this statement.

Introduction
      When a government fails to perform its mandate to its people, it resorts to oppression to suppress any dissenting voices. Adipo Sidang’s Parliament of Owls depicts such a government which uses dictatorial measures to remain in power and to silence any opposing voices. This is as illustrated below.

Content
The Royal Owl’s leadership mistreats its subjects by passing oppressive bills. The laws are not for the good of the Birds’ Kingdom but for satisfying selfish interests. The Owls pass the moonlight law which infringes on the rights of other birds. The moonlight law undermines the rights of bird that twitter in the moonlight and those that hunt at night. The law forbids the birds from being outside past 6:00pm thereby causing an obstacle to some of the birds. In addition, the law introduces an illegal moon light tax meant to exploit the other birds apart from the owls. The Owls argue that the money would be used to compensate them for supervision they do to ensure that no bird breaks the 6:00 pm rule. The owls also lie that this rule would benefit all birds because it would protect the bird kingdom from attacks. When Osogo plays his flute in protest against, the Moonlight Bills, a curfew is imposed to ensure that all birds sleep at sunset.  Thus, the laws target certain individuals who are perceived as enemies of the state in order to control their freedom of expression and movement.

      The Royal Owl’s government mistreats its citizens by abusing power. Money Bags serves the interests of his master The Royal Owl.  As a public officer, he runs intelligent system, chairs security committee, makes diplomatic ties with other kingdoms, signs partnership deals with reptiles and sits in the highest decision-making organ of the kingdom.  MoneyBags uses such powers given to him by the Royal owl to suppress the rights of other birds. Money Bags leads Mps into hurriedly passing the punitive Moonlight Bill into law. Money Bag ensures that the motion is not discussed on the floor of the parliament. He declares the ayes have carried the day.  Worse still, Money Bags kicks out members of the parliament such as iron Lady; who opposes the bill. In addition, Money Bags is behind the unpopular bill that awards Mps each three fried rats a day, frog’s soup and mayonnaise in order to woo them into supporting the bill in parliament. When the opposition Mps lose the motion, Money Bags advises them to seek legal redress in court. The highest court is led by the Vultures who are appointees of the Royal Owls. Definitely, opposition will lose the case. In fact, feathered Beak alleges that Money Bags controls the courts and appointed the vultures who are least qualified to hold such public office. When Iron lady attacks Money Bags for being drunk with power, he orders she be kicked out of the house.

      The Royal Owl’s leadership mistreats other birds by imposing oppressive taxes such as the moonlight tax.  The leadership alleges that all birds are supposed to pay daily moonlight tax to enable the great parliament perform its functions.  In addition, Money Bags lies the taxes will be used to feed the sick and the old birds. It is unfortunate that the taxes collected are finally embezzled and do not in any way benefit the ordinary birds. Money collected from taxes end in the pockets of a few individuals majorly Money Bag and his cronies. Money Bag threatens Tel Tel when she refuses to spread propaganda about the purpose of the taxes. According to Straight Owl, the Moonlight Bill introduces an illegal tax when the birds are faced with an imminent hunger. The bill is aimed at getting funds to gag the rebel owls and other birds and bury the truth to never see the light of the day.

      The Royal Owls leadership mistreats its citizen through blackmails and intimidations. Money Bags blackmails Arum Tidi for selfish gain. He knows that Arum Tidi knows so much about the parliament of the owls and thus a threat. Moneybag has been using Arum Tidi to pass propaganda that favours the Royal Owl’s rule at a charge. He is promised a rat and soup for seven nights at The Royal trees if he passes the propaganda on the moonlight bill. Though Arum meets his end of bargain, Moneybag does not. He tells the Red String that he would use and dump him without giving him even a penny. Later, Arum Tidi is found floating dead at the river. It is rumoured that Moneybag eliminated him for leaking confidential information about the parliament of owls. Ironically, Moneybag and Royal Owl mourn his death. In fact he is named as one of the celebrated foot soldiers for his loyalty and hard work.  The Royal Owl blackmails Money Bags to gain political mileage. Royal Owl knows that without the golden bead back, he cannot rule. He thus betrays Monebag to get the golden bead back. He sentences Moneybag and all his accomplices to a life imprisonment for breaking the privacy law.  He does all this to appease the other birds who feel betrayed by Moneybag such as Osogo, Oyundi and Tel Tel. unfortunately, his reign has come to an end as he is ousted out.

      The parliament of owls’ leadership resorts to assassinations to silence any dissenting voice.Arum Tidi and members of Osogo’s family are victims of such assassinations. Money Bags hatches a plan to kill Arum Tidi because he has outlived his usefulness. Money bags fears that Arum Tidi knows a lot of state secrets and murders him. Arum Tidi’s body is found floating on water according to Veteran P. Money Bags alleges that Arum Tidi was playing with his own reflection in water and ended up drowning which is propaganda. Arum Tidi had remained   loyal to the Royal Owl’s leadership. His killing was thus an act of betrayal. Money Bags alleges that Arum Tidi leaked confidential information to the birds about the secret activities in the Kingdom which is also not true. His death was meant to instill fear to those other birds that opposed the Royal Owl’s leadership.

      The parliament of owls mistreats its citizens by rewarding political cronies while discriminating others. The parliament is dominated by owls and their political allies. It is a no go zone for certain species of birds.  For instance, weaver birds are not allowed in parliament. This means the parliament only serves the interests of the owls. When the Veteran P. comes to parliament to report the loss of the golden bead and the death of Arum Tidi, money bags demand he produces gate pass from the police owl. Oyundi vows to change all bad laws and come up with ones that ensure equal presentation of all birds.

      Conclusion
In conclusion, governments have a mandate to serve their people. Failure to do so, only invites resistance against any draconian rules used by such governments.

3. Ineffective leaders use oppressive means to govern the citizens but it leads to misery. Citing illustrations from Adipo Sidang’s Parliament of Owls, write an essay to show the validity of this statement.

Introduction
Bad leaders use oppressive means to govern the citizens but this leads to misery Rulers who are not dictatorial use ways to rule their subjects and this brings a lot of suffering to their citizens. This brings a lot of suffering to their citizens. The Royal Owl and Money Bags are examples of bad leaders who use oppressive ways to rule. This is as illustrated in the play Parliament of Owls

B1Assaninations.
Money bag and Royal Owl assassinate some birds who oppose them. They assassinate some birds especially day birds to create four in them. Osogo says the omnivores and night birds continue to kill and murder grain enters and day birds for the sake of protecting the kingdom yet parliament of Owls does nothing about it. Pg. 3 moreover, Osogo tells Redstring that python is a friend of their court and they use him to punish your enemies in the kingdom. They run the gallows and python is the hangman. Pg. 4, Osogos kins are murdered in the weaver massacre where thirty-three weaver birds were killed. Pg. 9-12. Straight eye also reveals that there is a plan to kill birds like him that fights for good governance Pg. 34. Osogo tells moneybag that hhe killed his people and he will face the music. Pg. 52 Moneybag also murdered the family of Osogo and danced on their graves 59. Royal Owl and Money bag used Arun Tidi to spread proganda but when he became useless to them they killed him. They used one eye to eliminate him. He is killed because he had a dossier that implicated Money Bags and Royal Owls. They even give him a proper burial to deceive other birds. This causes fear and anxiety, in day birds. It also causes bitterness amongst the day birds. Teltel regrets spreading propaganda on behalf of the wicked Parliament of Owls 
Pg. 3-4, 9, 13, 34, 52, 59,114,123

B2 Oppressive laws.
The bad leaders pass and uses oppressive laws to oppress the citizens.The Owls are the leaders and they take advantage of this to pass bad laws in parliament that favours them. Osogo tells Red String that he break the same rules their parliament makes. Red String even reveals that they were targeting the running birds with those rules. Osogo says that the parliament of Owls pass bad laws that favour Owls. Redstring says they have passed a law that bans moonlight twittering and flying from tree to tree in the night citing that the kingdom is under imminent attack and the Owls have found it prudent to take such safety measures Pg. 7. Moneybag sponsors an oppressive bill called the moonlight Bill, a curfew is imposed forcing all birds to sleep by sunset. The law also allows moneybag to assume the role of the speaker to pass critical bills like moonlight bill in parliament. Daybirds like Osogo and Oyundi suffers. The iron lady says that this new law is a secet plot by money Bags to loot funds from coffers of birds and channel them to his private investments in unknown trees in deep forest. This law encourages theft and robbery. Moneybag says they will use the moonlight law to gag Arun Tidi and send him to the gallows Pg. 36. As a result, the birds suffer Arum Tidi is killed, he bled to death, Birds cannot twitter to their young ones at moonlight. Oyundi was also arrested but secured an amnesty. The right of movement is curtailed. All bird are forced to sleep by sunset. 
Pg. 3,6,16,17,21-22,30-32,36,52,66,69,74-75.

B3 unwarranted arrests
Moneybag and royal Owl arrests and charge those who disagree with them. They use arrest to threaten birds who conflict with them. Tel Tel is arrested and charged for treason for refusing to work with the Owls. Teltel tells Red string that he should not preoccupy himself with arresting him for declining his offer however Tel Tel is arrested and unlawfully charged with sound pollution. Red string calls him a traitor and tell him they will lock him up for treason. Money bag orders for the arrest of Oyundi , he says Oyundi is a wanted bird, dead or alive. She is accused of embarrassing the king a number of times Oyundi is arrested but skewered an amnesty after signing a pact with Royal Owl. The police Owl is also used to arrest anyone who disagree with money bag and Royal Owl Veteran P has also been arrested several times. When Tel Tel escapes from detention, Royal Owl declares she is wanted dead or alive. This causes tension in the birds Arum Tidi suffers he is arrested and shown his reflection in the water, he viciously attacks his own reflection and dies due to bleeding. They even put a law that stops the ambulance from helping him until seven nights after passing of moonlight bill.  
Pg. 13,14,17,47,74,79,84,93,103,106,117.

B4 punitive taxes and levies
The Owls introduces punitive taxes and levies to oppress the subjects and they suffer. They introduced this taxes to exploit the birds and found their evil regime. They introduce the daily contribution of moonlight tax to enable members of the parliament of Owls to perform their duty of protecting the kingdom. It was on allowance to compensate then. It was to pay the owls that supervised and took roll calls. Red string even says that they should assume they are contributing on tithe to their gods and it shall be delivered by falcon when he visits the skies. Tel Tel protest saying parliament is not a church and it is a way of exploiting them. They also lie the tax will be used to feed sick and old birds. Moreover, they also want to collect a levy from birds that hammers on trees and make noise. They will pay a fee as a way of conserving the environment. This was meant to frustrate day birds who hammers trees for refusing to work with Owls. The proceeds of the taxes for refusing to work with Owls. The proceeds of the taxes will go to Royal trees and benefits Royal Owl. money bag and others. This levies and taxes made the birds to suffer. 

B5 propaganda.
The leaders use propaganda to push for their agenda. The Owls pay Tel Tel to spread lies. Red string wants Tel Tel to use her gift of the gab to spread propaganda by about the moonlight bill being good for the birds. The tax is to be called a tithe and to be used to protect the kingdom. The tax they lie will be used to pay for the welfare of the sick and old birds. Tel Tel fears taking this job because earlier, the Owls had made her to spread propaganda about Osogo and they massacred his family. In addition, Arun Tidi is used to spread propaganda for Royal trees by going around praising the parliament of Owls for the safety of all birds. Feathered Beak criticizes moneybag and his cronies for hiring Arun Tidi to spread propaganda and lies hence confusing night birds and omnivores and painting the righteous Owl as bad. As a result, it is Arum Tidi who suffers despite being promised a payment of a rat every night he is eventually murdered. He was found floating in the river. They said he fought his own reflecting and their was no ambulance to take him to hospital. Nightingale says she was instructed not to use the ambulance to take him to hospital. Nightingale says she was instructed not to use the ambulance until seven nights after passing o moonlight law. 

B6 Threats and intimidations.
Royal Owl and his cronies used threats and intimidations to silence their opposes. Red string threatens Tel Tel if she fails to help them spread propaganda about moonlight bill. He tells her that he is darkness and if she fails to spread propaganda she will be living on borrowed time. Money Bag , also ask Red string to tell Tel Tel to carry out his directive or else she would not live to tell the story Osogobis also to threatened by Royal Owl for playing his flute. Police Owl is also used by Money Bag and Royal Owl to intimidate Tel Tel. Iron lady, Oyundi and Featherbed Beak. Money Bag also threaten Oyundi , he tell her , she is a criminal band a wanted bird and it is just a matter of time before they got hold of that little tail of hers. As a result, the birds suffer. Oyundi is arrested, Tel Tel also suffers he was arrested for failing to spread propaganda. The police Owl arrest him  
Pg. 8, 9,10,11,46,58.

In conclusion, l
eaders who are dictators use propaganda, threats unwanted arrest and oppressive laws to create fear in Citizens. 

4. Political assassinations are not a solution to political differences. Justify this claim with relevant illustrations from the play “Parliament of Owls”.   (20 marks )

Introduction
The political class will do everything within their power to protect their self interest.They are ready to go to great lengths to safeguard their leadership, and reign. This means they go an extend of killing in order to remain in power. This is evident in Parliament of Owls by Adipo Sidang.

Red string together with the other loyal owls go after Oyundi to silence her. Oyundi is accused of embarrassing the leadership of Royal Owl and may even cause the end of his leadership. ( Have a detailed supportive statements).

Red strings when the book unfolds, tells Osogo that he is targeting the cunning birds. Red string together with the Owls have been going around killing the Weaver birds . ( Have a detailed supportive statements).

Arum tidi is killed by the Parliament of Owls after being used to spread propaganda for a very long time. Parliament of Owls betrays Arum Tidi  by what they say that , Arum Tidi knows too much secrets about the Owls. ( Have a detailed supportive statements.)

Teltel is assured that  she is living in a graceful and extra years of her life and that if doesn’t oblige to the rules of the owls by spreading propaganda about the Moonlight Bill , her life might be taken away .  ( Have a detailed supportive statements)

Osogo is assured that right have limits in the Royal Trees ,which means the right to live can also be taken anytime. ( Have detailed supportive statements.

Conclusion
It is true that the political class  in government can go an extra mile to assassinate any person seem as a threat to them to maintain their dominance in power