n the story “The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses” by Bessie Head, the warders are intimidated by the political prisoners assertive nature and psychological games, so the prisoners do not submit to Hannetjie when he treats them brutally because they think the warder just has not spend enough time with them. The political prisoners are conniving con artists whose strength is their strong bond and them being kept together. In the story the narrator describes the political prisoners claiming, “Span One was assertive and it was beyond the scope of white warders to handle assertive black men. Thus, Span One had got out of control. They were the best thieves and liars in the camp” (Head 127). Warders are intimidated by them because they are cunning and
