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A 5 page paper which examines the judgments concerning murder and characters in Bessie Head’s “Life” and “The Collector of Treasures.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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a man kills his wife and only gets a few years in prison whereas in "The Collector of Treasures" has a woman who has murdered her husband and her sentence
is life. The following paper examines the two stories and why the judgments of those who commit murder are different. Judgments: Bessie Head In Lifes story the reader
is presented with Life, a woman who is originally from a small African village. In her very early years her parents moved to Johannesburg, where she grew up. As an
adult she returns to her home village and is embraced, at first, by the hardworking women. But, it is quickly learned and observed that she is less than a hardworking
woman. She is a woman who was seen as something of a lazy individual, an opportunist (in the eyes of the reader), and a woman who easily made money from
sex. Interestingly enough, this story revolves around a patriarchal society, but also a society where sex is not something the village people have never had to sell or buy.
Sex, in the story, "ought to be available whenever possible, like food and water, or else ones life would be extinguished or one would get dreadfully ill" (Head 39). In
essence, sex was available to anyone and there had previously been no such thing as the selling of sex. But, this also enticed the male dominated society and so Life
became incredibly popular, as well as ostracized by the women who were traditional and worked hard. She then married and her husband told her that if she ever cheated on
him, or went back to her ways of prostitution, he would kill her. Interestingly enough, one may argue that in this story
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