In the story “The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses” by Bessie Head, Warders are often intimidated by the political prisoners because of the convicts’ cocky, aggressive and unified fashion until Warder Hannetjie’s inhuman approach deters the prisoners’ relentless ways. The political prisoners of Span One were excellent stealers and liars as well as used cognitive ways to push the Warders away. They use force to get what they want and for this, most Warders are coerced into leaving after only two weeks. For example, the narrator describes political convicts as “unlike the other prisoners in the sense they they feel no guilt nor [are] they outcasts of society” (Head 127). Because they feel no guilt, the prisoners do not recoil from the Warders so easily.
