Symbolism In Prisoner's Glasses

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In the story "No Wtchcraft for sale the white family named Farquad, regard their cook as a good person because he does not question them when they make their own medicines that are fake. Instead he takes the blame when the scientist comes and says he didn't know that making fake blindness medicine was wrong. Hes tribal. In Prisoner's Glasses the men make fun of the warden because he steals the men's fertilizer from lavs to work his farm. The Span man catches him and so the white man regards him sospiciously with his glasses. So in one story the regard each other nicely but not in the

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