Wendy Gonzalez
Mr. Ferebee
English Language Arts Honors 10
18 February 2016
“We Wear the Mask” Many times it has been said that “You can’t judge a book by its cover” or “ Don’t judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.” For example, a person may be seen a certain way on the outside but on the inside they could be feeling the complete opposite of what they are being depicted as. They are masking their true emotions and identities from society with a false appearance In the poem “ We Wear the Mask” the author, Paul Laurence Dunbar illustrates and is trying to teach this message to the audience by using repetition and setting a theme of appearance versus reality. In the early United States, the African- Americans slaves are
