The first theme shown in Sheila Gordon's Waiting for the Rain, is that a true friendship is stronger than any emotion of the human character that corrupts, even hates, emotions like distrust, fear, beliefs that one race is better than another, and intolerance. In Waiting for the Rain, these feelings are portrayed in the final scene between Frikkie and Tengo, the main characters, when they meet again, inside the shed after a protest. Frikkie has joined the military, almost as a defense against change, something of which he despises, while Tengo has gone to school, and become a part of the student protests, so that things will change. When they meet, their social positions have changed for the moment. Frikkie, after being captured by some unruly protestors, is lying helpless, while Tengo, one of the ringleaders, has the power of deciding whether Frikkie will live or die. …
