It is always easier to be hateful or unkind to someone when they don’t know the face and name behind the mask. This is apparent when Sher claims, “[Sher doesn’t] remember if [they] told [themselves] a reason why [they] couldn’t help him, but [they] had decided then. …[Sher] never went very close to the lip of the well… so that he couldn’t see [Sher]; and just as [the children] wouldn’t allow him to see [them]…” (21). The children created a detachment to the man in the well when they wouldn’t allow the man to get a glimpse of them, or when they wouldn’t allow themselves to be seen by the man. With this detachment set, the children felt they could no longer be held accountable for any past or future counts of dehumanization they brought to the
