No Witchcraft For Sale By Doris Lessing

The three messages from Sale

The racial conflict in the world

Have you ever felt so upset with the life that you have? Have you ever been an outsider in an insider 's home? Would you ever try to help someone who you were close to? Would you try to help someone, even if they were rude to your family? Would you have gratitude to those who were nice to you? In the story, No witchcraft for sale by Doris lessing, she explains about the racial conflicts of the story, the faithfulness that one has in his own medicine, and many more things. The story is about this chef named Gideon, he is an african american servant to the white people of the house. The people, were named the Farquars they were his bosses, they tried for so long to have a baby. They soon were lucky enough to have a child, and Gideon was very close to Teddy, also named “little yellowhead”. As the boy progressed in age he was, taught so many other things, than just a little white boy. He was Gideon’s pal, and was nice to the son of Gideon until he grew up. There are three messages to this story and they are, racism is taught, clash of cultures, and why Gideon did not share his secret.

First of all, racism is taught, someone is not born racist. Some people believe that because the color of a person’s skin they should be a judgmental person. In the olden days, people did not believe that colored people should be anything, but servants. They were the gardeners, the chefs, and the maids. Racism is taught in households, that believe they are better than everyone else, they think that they can go through life judging others by the color of their skin. In the story they are taught racism, they do not have it when they are born, they learn it from thei...

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... a servant” on page thirteen thirty. There will always be segregation in a way. There will always, be some kind of horrible way of hurting people. Obviously, you have to show people the way, before you can show them the light.

Last of all, people have a way of being, racist, hurtful, and kind in all of the same ways. I think that this story shows, a different meaning towards all the racist things that people say. THe man could have let Teddy go blind, after saying the horrid thing about his son. He risked his father’s recipe to help a little white boy. In all honesty he could have said to himself not to help an insider, instead he helped his boss’s son out. There are way too many people in the world that could care less of someone, and then there are people that would do anything for them. Clearly, there was never going to be a heartless person in this story.