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Lynn Dang
Ms. Cooper
English 112
April 25, 2006

Everyday people would look into the mirror and see a reflection of someone that they don't know at all looking back at them. Their reflection is different from what they are feeling inside themselves because they are hiding themselves from the world. If people wear a mask then they can fool the world but they usually can't fool themselves and their heart. That is because it is hard to lie to themselves and the world at the same time. In Paul Laurence Dunbar's Poem of "We Wear the Mask," Dunbar uses theme is this poem to show how people hide themselves from the world and why people, like the women and the African Americans, wear their masks of theirs throughout the years.
In the poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar, "We Wear the Mask", Dunbar has written about how we are hiding ourselves everyday. Dunbar wants to express that we use masks to hide what we truly feel and what we think to ourselves, especially in his line, "with torn......

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