The New Park Monologue
INTERVIEWER: As you know, everything that’s happened recently caused a wave of depression to spread to us all. In response, the Mayor has commissioned the creation of a park in the heart of town. I’m here now with a group of people to discuss this thrilling announcement.
How do you feel about the new park?
PERSON 1: I’m excited about it! Having a park will make everyone happier. Once we have more people living here again, this park will be a place for our community to gather.
PERSON 2: If we even have any “community” left.
PERSON 3: Yeah, I guess it’s nice.
PERSON 2: Nice? What do you mean nice? All this park will be is a patch of grass and some trees; that’s not going to fix anything! Why doesn’t someone actual—
INTERVIEWER: —and the …show more content…
It’s entirely his fault! We had nothing left; did you do anything about it? Did you help us to get the food and shelter we needed? No, you didn’t; you just watched us trying to save ourselves. It’s your fault that we have nothing, that we lost everything we couldn’t get anything back! If you don’t do something about this right now, or someone’s going to get hurt.
RIOTER 2: Hold on, we don’t need to go making threats. The Mayor didn’t cause everything to go wrong, stop trying to throw it all on him. It’s our fault that it got as bad as—
RIOTER 3: —None of that matters! None of that matters anymore! Nothing has changed, and we only have him to blame. If we take him out, we can start to make things better, instead of keeping them the horrible the way they are. All of us want better lives, for us and the people who come after us. We have to get rid of the Mayor for things to change!
MAYOR: Taking me out of this position won’t make anything better, it will only create chaos. If you let me take care of things, and just wait a little bit longer, change will come.
RIOTER 1: No, they’re right, if we want things to be different, we have to stop relying on others to be catalysts. We have to cut out the people who prevent change, and if that includes the Mayor, then so be
How do you feel about the new park?
PERSON 1: I’m excited about it! Having a park will make everyone happier. Once we have more people living here again, this park will be a place for our community to gather.
PERSON 2: If we even have any “community” left.
PERSON 3: Yeah, I guess it’s nice.
PERSON 2: Nice? What do you mean nice? All this park will be is a patch of grass and some trees; that’s not going to fix anything! Why doesn’t someone actual—
INTERVIEWER: —and the …show more content…
It’s entirely his fault! We had nothing left; did you do anything about it? Did you help us to get the food and shelter we needed? No, you didn’t; you just watched us trying to save ourselves. It’s your fault that we have nothing, that we lost everything we couldn’t get anything back! If you don’t do something about this right now, or someone’s going to get hurt.
RIOTER 2: Hold on, we don’t need to go making threats. The Mayor didn’t cause everything to go wrong, stop trying to throw it all on him. It’s our fault that it got as bad as—
RIOTER 3: —None of that matters! None of that matters anymore! Nothing has changed, and we only have him to blame. If we take him out, we can start to make things better, instead of keeping them the horrible the way they are. All of us want better lives, for us and the people who come after us. We have to get rid of the Mayor for things to change!
MAYOR: Taking me out of this position won’t make anything better, it will only create chaos. If you let me take care of things, and just wait a little bit longer, change will come.
RIOTER 1: No, they’re right, if we want things to be different, we have to stop relying on others to be catalysts. We have to cut out the people who prevent change, and if that includes the Mayor, then so be