The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses: Actions Have Consequences
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In the short story "The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses" by Bessie Head, an old political prisoner named Brille lost control in his life by ending up in jail and not taking care of his kids. The guilt was overwhelming. The suppressed feelings of helplessness and chaos had to be relieved. Brille exper ....
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.... teacher's salary. Watching his kids fight made him depressed and lost. The violence that he saw between his kids made him feel like a savage.
Brille is a political prisoner in the area of Span One, which has nine other prisoners just like Brille. Brille is not physically intimidating. He wears glasses and has "a hollowed-out chest and comic knobbly knees" (Head 427). Brille needed to release these suppressed feelings. He did this by turning the Warder in. This gave him a sense of cont ....
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