Examine how white people and black people regard each other in "No Witchcraft for Sale," "The Moment Before the Gun Went Off," and "The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses." How do they help to teach and support each other, and how do they fail? Think about what each group is trying to protect and when it withholds something from the other. (10 points)

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Examine how white people and black people regard each other in "No Witchcraft for Sale," "The Moment Before the Gun Went Off," and "The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses." How do they help to teach and support each other, and how do they fail? Think about what each group is trying to protect and when it withholds something from the other.  (10 points)

anonymous · Answer

This is not really the sort of forum for open-ended questions such as this, particularly of such broad scope.  This is your entire assignment.  What is your question?  Have you some ideas of your own to put forth and discuss, so that you can better discover what it is you think and how you might support that?  Or is your goal to have someone supply you with a neatly packaged response?  That latter is not really possible here.

You need to think about the questions in light of the essays in question, and then interrogate the text (probe it, question it, think about it) to uncover reasonable answers, answers that make sense to you and answers that you can support.  A simple unfounded opinion -- assertions without any supporting details from the text -- won't get you to where you want to be.  It won't persuade your teacher and so it will not net a good grade.

For essays of this sort, the point is to be able to make a strong argument.  You can't do that without spending time and effort on it.  But if you begin down that road and you want to TALK about what it is you see in the text, how you see the various characters teaching and supporting one another, and how you see them failing to do that, then you can offer something here that people can respond to.

anonymous · Answer

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 other.