When you select a specific theme in literature, you will find that numerous works will focus on that particular theme, just in slightly different ways. Think of two or more texts from the eighteenth, nineteenth, or early twentieth century in American literature that focus on similar topics or themes. The theme I am going to be talking about is hiding behind a mask. In the two stories, "We wear the Mask" and "Richard Cory" they are both about how people can wear a mask and can never see their true colors.
In the first story, "We Wear the Mask" it is about how people wear a mask that they will hide behind. It is a metaphorical lesson. People may be smiling on the inside, but they are crying out on the inside. Not only is the poor doing this …show more content…
Everyone around him never knew why he did that, but some think that he was sad that he never had a lover or anyone to love him. Whenever he was in the town, he would make them look and stare as he walked on by and said good morning. The poor people would always envy him and want to be just like him. Now to tie these two stories together.
Now we are to talk about how both of these stories relate to each other. They both talk about hiding the true face of what you are behind a mask. Not only have they been the same and talk about hiding your true color from the ones you love and the ones around you, but it is also about how other people in different social economics are the same. The other one is that the true you are not always happy with what you have and that you want more to make you happy. Although the real color of you is not always what you let others see.
In other words the stories relate to each other by what they are both saying. They are saying that people all over, rich or poor, have a problem with what they tell others and what they are hiding. Not everyone can hide their pain behind a mask like Richard Cory, but in the end he killed himself for unknown reasons. No one knows what is like to be depressed and put on a mask to show others that they are in need of some
In the first story, "We Wear the Mask" it is about how people wear a mask that they will hide behind. It is a metaphorical lesson. People may be smiling on the inside, but they are crying out on the inside. Not only is the poor doing this …show more content…
Everyone around him never knew why he did that, but some think that he was sad that he never had a lover or anyone to love him. Whenever he was in the town, he would make them look and stare as he walked on by and said good morning. The poor people would always envy him and want to be just like him. Now to tie these two stories together.
Now we are to talk about how both of these stories relate to each other. They both talk about hiding the true face of what you are behind a mask. Not only have they been the same and talk about hiding your true color from the ones you love and the ones around you, but it is also about how other people in different social economics are the same. The other one is that the true you are not always happy with what you have and that you want more to make you happy. Although the real color of you is not always what you let others see.
In other words the stories relate to each other by what they are both saying. They are saying that people all over, rich or poor, have a problem with what they tell others and what they are hiding. Not everyone can hide their pain behind a mask like Richard Cory, but in the end he killed himself for unknown reasons. No one knows what is like to be depressed and put on a mask to show others that they are in need of some