No One Could See My Face By Lucy Grealy

I love wearing masks. I love transforming my entire being into something completely different. Offstage I’m Culley Emborg, a likeable, friendly, normal kid, but on stage, I can be anyone. Over the years, I have participated in ten musicals and I’ve played a variety of characters ranging from one of the oblivious Who-people in a Dr. Suess-inspired production to a spiteful doll in “Mary Poppins” to a crippled nerd in “13: The Musical.” The best character I’ve played, however, is the stupid yet loveable Leaf Coneybear from “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” As Leaf I wore the most wacky, unique outfit to ever grace my body: a pink bike helmet intended for little girls, knee pads decorated with Dora the Explorer stickers, a collared, tie-dye shirt, and even a long polkadot cape embroidered with a purple “L.” To this day that cape hangs on my bedroom wall and every time I happen to glance at it I reminisce about the odd boy it once belonged to.

The mask is a significant symbol of savagery and the dark side that lies within every human being. One instance is when Jack painted his face to fool the animals and blend in with the island for hunting. He painted his face with different colors and when he peered into the water he saw a stranger looking back at him.“He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling. He capered toward Bill, and the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness” (Golding

We try to hide our flaws, so we wear a mask to conceal our imperfections. We are hurt and unable to fully recover, so we put on a mask. We are a monster, so we wear a mask to hide our vile and devilish ways. We want to appear to okay, even though inside we are dying a little bit each day, so we put on a mask. Wearing a mask is a lot like being a wife and a mother. A wife and mother is many other things, such as a cook, a nurse, a taxi driver, a cheerleader, a lover, a daughter, a worker, and maybe even a student amongst other things. We juggle our self between all these different persona’s. In O’Connor’s, “Good Country People” many of her characters wore mask to conceal the things they didn’t want seen. Hulga pretended to be a rude, uncaring brat to hide her hurt she felt from losing her leg at an early age. Manley Pointer disguised himself as a Bible salesman to take advantage of people, when he was nothing more than a wolf in sheep’s clothing. While the matriarch of the family, Mrs. Hopewell insisted that everything was fine. Everyone has their own way of getting through tough situations and circumstances and these country people proved they were no different from the rest. “In one of her essays, “The Regional Writer” Flannery O’Connor spoke of, “the particular crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet.” (Driskell and Brittain, The Eternal Crossroads). These such characters in this

I chose the topic of this mask, based off the boys improper and confused relationship with Piggy. The theme of this mask, is discrimination. It stood out to me how unfair the boys treat Piggy, they view Piggy as powerless and having no sense of command. It also felt like the boys are confused with Piggy, because of his superego personality. He was raised by adults, and acts like one. This makes Piggy hard to relate with the boys and often leaves them frustated and confused. I feel like everyone once had a time in their life where they felt mistreated, and not having a opportunity to express their point of view. Therefore, we feel meaningless along with neglected, and are overpowered by a group of people which we simply can not overcome.

In St Lucy’s girls raised by wolves by Karen Russell. Some wolf girls got taken to school to learn to be human. Some of the girls were able to change and graduate and some did not graduate. In the passage Mirabella was not able to adapt to the human environment. She was mean, selfish, and crazy. Have you ever known someone who didn’t try hard enough to pass?

Masks were sometimes created for the purpose of being used in a ceremonies by a priest. The mask would be a certain deity and the priest would be dressed in costume to play out that character. By portraying the deity the priest would be

I was looking through the “Texas day by day” section on the TSHA website and there was an article that caught my eye. It read, “Lucy Pickens face appears on Confederate $100 Bills.”1 I had never known of any person being on the one-hundred-dollar bill except for Benjamin Franklin, so I decided to look into it.

A mask is a covering for all or parts of the face, worn as a disguise, or to abuse or terrify other people (merriam Webster n.p). In the novel The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald use mask like a covering to hide each characters true emotions. Even today the use of mask can be found on just average people. A mask, we’ve all worn them for a variety of reasons, whatever it may be. It disguises who we are for at least a moment and can bring a sense of continuation for the time being. In this novel, the masks used by the author are most evident on three of the main characters, Myrtle, Daisy, and Jay Gatsby. They are looking for something else, because what they have just isn’t enough. We often wear masks to disguise who we are for a moment and

“The mask represents the [indigenous] people who had nothing, but would do anything to support the people that they love.” Alaniz says that this idea inspires him to do more in his work to bring social change. The thin, smooth textured material of the mask made him wonder, “If people with little resources can make this [mask] to bring change, then what can I do as a person of wealth to bring social change to the world.” Although he does not necessarily have to make a big change, he can create change by getting to know the people and sharing their experiences with others. With this, he can thereby influence others to become interested in making a change in the world. It is because of experience like this the Alaniz encourages students to plunge into this trip to witness the unjust inequality the lives within the

In the middle, Ages people would confess their sins so that they were forgiven before lent season. Because of this people use the term Fat Tuesday as a day to celebrate their sins before lent season. Additionally, For mardi gras, it is very important to wear masks at events. “Whether they cover the wearer’s eyes or whole face, masks add an element of mystery and intrigue when worn.” In new Orleans, the meaning of wearing a mask is to be free and become whomever a person wanted to be, and talk with whatever class that person desired to talk to. This explains why people celebrate on fat Tuesday where a mask. They celebrate all of their sins by wearing masks, and at the end of the day they take the mask off and ask god for forgiveness by participating in lent. So to some people in New Orleans and other places wearing a mask represents freedom. A person can become whoever they wish to become.

What are masks? One usually thinks it is an object the individual puts on and takes off.

who was age 24 and female, individual L. who was age 30 and female, individual G. who was age 21 and female, individual C. who was age 22 and female, and one outsider perspective who was individual S. who was age 20 and male. The interviewees were randomly selected. When participants were asked if they were familiar with Mexican masks, the insiders provided an overall answer was they were familiar with Mexican masks while the outsider was not familiar with Mexican masks even though he have seen a couple of Mexican masks before. Next, the interviewees were questioned about what traditional masks were, an overall answer was that they were masks or things that covered up the face that would look like another person’s face, a higher being or an animal. The answer to this question answered other questions about the meaning and symbolization of Mexican masks. When asked about Mexican masks symbolic meaning, except for the outsider interviewee, all the insider interviewees listed one similar example such as snakes that seemed to be linked to the prayer of rain and fertility for

At first, an individual may probably perceive this type of attire as a comical idea but it actually has grave repercussions on the communities that the costume mocks. It is evident that the previous Halloween holiday elicited a great deal of controversy regarding the issue of discrimination. This affected many people including those who faced some form of mockery. Previous holidays mainly highlighted the aspect of racism, but an attack on other societal aspects was evident this time around.

In We Wear the Mask, the author’s purpose is to push the reader to feel something about the way things were in his perspective.

In Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “We Wear the Mask,” Dunbar uses the figurative wearing of masks to present a theme of denial of one’s identity in favor masks. Dunbar is highly critical of masks as they place heavy societal pressure upon the individual who chooses to hide their feelings and emotions. Dunbar utilizes symbolism to convey the results of the societal pressure placed upon individuals who wear masks. Pressure created by these masks is shown throw the symbolism present throughout Dunbar’s poem. In the poem, Paul Laurence Dunbar connects images of internal sadness and pain to the wearing of masks and the pressure said masks create upon the wearer.