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The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses

Name: Cristine Mae G. Evaristo

Date: June 11, 2020

BS Psychology 4-1

Before Reading 1. Why are they called political prisoners? Answer: They are called political prisoners because they are part of the political system that are against a certain issue. Which led them to be in prison. 2. Why does one become a political prisoner? Answer: They are accused for violating a certain law. 3. Who are the famous political prisoners in the country? Answer: The most famous and most bashed political prisoner I know is senator Bong Revilla. 4. What happened to him/her while in prison? Answer: He was said to have VIP treatments which was unfair to the other prisoners. He also studied inside the prison with Alternative learning system. 5. What happened to the advocacies or demands of the political prisoner? Did he/she win? The political battle? Answer: His demands were heard by the public and the jury. His plead for not guilty and his bail brought such distress in many Filipinos.

After reading Discussion and analysis 1. Describe Brille as a person, as a political prisoner, and as a father. Cite specific incidents in the story which reveal the character’s personality. Answer: Brille was a young man with a creative thought. He was thin man with hollowed out chest. And had plenty fanciful ideas and loves to smile at the clouds. He even stated while looking at the clouds who were going to the direction of his home “perhaps they would want me to send a message to the children”. I noticed his compassion for his family and his care to them. 2. Describe Hannetijie as a warder, and as a person. Cite specific incidents in the story which reveal the character’s personality. Answer: He is a warden who is brutal yet primitive. He has blue eyes, but not the ones you see in movies. More likely the scary one. He was also quite rude in a line where he called brille out he said “hey what do you think you’re doing?” makes me think that he is the type that is hard to get along with.

3. Why was the warder described as not human? To what extent was he consistent with such description? In what point of the story did he deviate from his portrayed character when he first met the prisoners? Answer: He was described as not human because he swung the prisoner round and that scared him. 4. Why shouldn’t there be a black warder to be in charge of political prisoners? What does “lest this prisoner convert him to his view” mean? How can it be possible? What does this statement reveal about political prisoners? Answer: Part of the regulations is no black warder because should be in charge of a political prisoner unless the prisoner made him change his mind. It can be possible when the warder and the prison spend more time

together and open their minds to each other. The statement means that both parties have conflicting views. Therefore, one must build a bridge for both parties to get through. 5. How did the writer differentiate the political prisoners from the criminal prisoners? Compare and contrast them. Answer: They are unlike criminal prisoners because they felt no guilt nor were, they outcasts to the society. Because their beliefs are meant to change the system they are knocked down and always threatened by the warders. 6. What is a psychological battle how can the prisoners wage a psychological battle against the warder? Answer: Because of the beatings and brutality, it caused a psychological battle on the Span one. Although their assertiveness was commendable at times like that. And this assertiveness brings made the brutality more difficult for other warders.

7. How did the warder treat the battle? Was he consistent? Why? Why not? Answer: The warder treats the battle by throwing punches to brille. 8. Why did Brille refuse to call Hannetjie Baas? Answer: He refused to call him Baas because he was trying to defend his fellow comrades by not loosing into the battle with Hannetjie. 9. What kind of family did Brille have? Wy did Brille believe that it was his kind of family which drove him to politics? Answer: Brille had a big family in eastern cape. And a teacher’s salary is to small for them to move into a big house. He tried his best to pass exams to have higher salary but then he kept on failing. And his children mostly fight each other by banging the other’s head. Everything seems horrible. This brought the couple by making slogans. This chaos and mismanagement in his life brought him at the center of politics.

10. What was Brille’s promise to his inmates? How was he able to fulfill that promise? How did he get control of Hannetjie? Answer: He promised his comrades that they will not get hungry and he will find a way to get into Hannetjie. With this he sneaked in and discovered a secret of Hannetjie. 11. What was the deal that Brille and Hannetjie make? Answer: Brille saw Hannetjie stealing five bags of fertilizer and he bribed Brille to keep his mouth shut about what he just saw. 12. Brille considered himself the father of the prisoners, including Hannetjie. How did this help him gain control of Hannetjie? How did his family life help him control Hannetjie? Answer: Brille means evil is like this, he considered himself as a father of children and he saw that day that Hannetjie was just a child and stupidly truthful. And he said he will punish Hannetjie severely because they need a good warder. 13. The narrator tells the reader that Brille had long been a witness of extreme, almost unbelievable, human brutality. To what extent did the narrator show human brutality in the political prisoner’s camp? Answer: The narrator shows that if the prisoner talks back to the warder, he will surely get beaten up by punching and throwing the prisoner to the wall. 14. What happened to Span One in the end? How did it happen? Answer: Span one is composed of ten men who are all political prisoners. Hannetjie turned himself to the theft of the fertilizer and he was fined a large amount of money. From then on Span one did very much as they pleased while warder Hannetjie stood by and said nothing. and he gave Hannetjie a dose of his own medicine by bullying him. To put Hannetjie on the side of Span one and because they needed a good warder to make them through their stay in the prison. And the span one did steal things for Hannetjie’s farm in return....