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(Three messages from Son, Sale, and Mash) To begin with these three stories, Devoted Son, No Witchcraft for Sale, and Mashed, they all have one important lesson that is being pushed on to the readers without them actually knowing. In No witchcraft for sale it talks about not taking advantage of what you have and it has thoroughly explained it. “Her works display a broad range of interests and concerns, including racism, communism, feminism, psychology, and mysticism. The major unifying theme of her work is the need for the individual to confront his or her most fundamental assumptions about life as a way of avoiding preconceived belief systems and achieving psychic and emotional wholeness.(Doris Lessing." Contemporary Literary Criticism)” …show more content…
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"Short Story." Gale Student Resources in Context, Gale, 2010. Student Resources in Context, proxy.lib.wy.us/login?url=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EJ2181500088/SUIC?u=wylrc_wyomingst&xid=777f8884. Accessed 22 Mar. 2017.

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