STEEM CAMEROON CONTEST- MY SHORT MOVIE SCRIPT: COMBAT (FIGHT AT THE MARKET SQUARE)

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Warm greetings to you all my fellow Steemians, it's another day again to participate in this creative contest as well as also reading from other creative writers. Please stay with me throughout this ride.

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Fight at the market square entails every act of violence and cruelty at the marketplace. By this I mean, every form of violence meted by either the sellers at the market or by the buyers. Most times, we have come across scenes of how people engage in either physical combat or oral abuse at the market square.

Also, what causes fights at market square are just not things that would've resulted to physical combat, but based on human indifferences, the restoration to going physical on eachother will be adopted. Some are caused by wrong space management, this happens when sellers can not manage the little space they have, this is mostly found in the local market where there is no demarcation and the space are congested.

Furthermore, wrong price negotiation can also be one of the core reason for seller-buyers fight. This is as a result of either the buyer pricing very low or the seller placing high price on the goods, so either of them that has anger issue might resort to physical combat.

For some local markets at the roadside, a fight can arouse as a result of a vehicle splashing dirty water at either the buyer or the seller, this is always the most funny scene to behold because the word exchange has always been funny to hear from both the driver and the victim.

• Nedu - A 45 year old man who just lost his wife .

• Amina - a girl seemingly at her early 20s selling palm oil.

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Scene I- At The Church

Mr Nedu was just getting over the demise of his wife and trying to blend in with the reality that he has to take care of his two kids who were still very young to even wash their clothes or cook by themselves.

He had prepared to go to market from church, it was really sunny and he was still on his choir attire (white shirt with blue trouser and a red tie). He drove in his car to the nearby market so he could get some foodstuffs to prepare soup that will take the kids for atleast two days. He was making the list whilst in church.

Scene II - At The Market

The church had closed early enough that day and he zoomed off to the market, as he parked his car, he began to wonder where he will be getting the different food items he had written down, all of a sudden he began to shed tears, reminiscing how his wife would do the shopping while he waits at the car lot for her to finish shopping.

He cleaned his tears and went out of his car to start getting them before it gets late, he started by getting some vegetables and later proceeded to get palm oil. He was still lost in thought whe. He mistakenly hit the gallon beside the walkway containing Amina's palm oil, before he realized it, Amina had already given him a resounding slap and in a bit to retaliate, he realized it's from a woman, he tried calming down but Amina was not giving him a listening ear. Mr Nedu kept on pleading that Amina should atleast hear him out, but then Amina was so rage that she was holding Mr Nedu by the collar.

People came out and some blamed Nedu for being so careless while so came and were trying to calm the situation down. After so many attempts to calm Amina, she finally gave in and Mr Nedu offered to pay for the whole gallon, an account details was given and he made the transfer.

Scene III - At The Market Court

At that point, Amina began to ask him what he was thinking of, he took her to the buyers court and told her he just lost his wife was just lost in thought thinking of how to prepare all this thing, pointing at his list for his kids. Amina couldn't hold than to go on her knee and began to beg for forgiveness, Mr Nedu, being a soft hearted man forgave her and she offered to be helping Mr Nedu take care of his kids, they exchange contacts and light fades.