#aplang15mask

[claudiaaitonean-blog]

Mask

The masks that we wear are different depending on the people around us, in my opinion. I think that the people around us make us want to be someone we're not. For example, you may not be mommy's innocent teenage boy, but around your mom, you put that innocence mask on, because that's what you want to be around your mom. Or friends, you can have different masks on around your friends, and I don't think they're always bad. The masks we wear are not always bad, they can be really good as well. I think that we "wear" our masks so much, and we try to be our masks so much that we grow to fit it. If my mask is "Straight A Student" , I try so badly to be that, that at one point I grow to fit my "Straight A Student" mask

[simoneg-007]

Mask

A mask is coming that covers up your true identity. A person can have several masks for several situations. But in the end the mask is you.

[kyranwilson]

Mask

I think that a mask i something you wear to cover your true self, but a mask can also become who you really are like what happened in Shooting an Elephant. I think a mask is like a pretend you.

[alexaaalonso]

Mask

I think our harkness was good today and I think the mask was a perfect way to describe what Orwell felt like. I also agree that he ended up conforming to the mask. The mask became a part of him and it made him easy to hide one part of himself. As for who had the power in his situation, I feel like you can't have REAL power when your wearing a mask because it is not really you. If you felt as though you had power, you wouldn't feel the need to wear a mask.

[isiah-ells-blog]

Masks

Masks, masks are used on holidays to cover up who you are inside and be someone that you’re not. For example on Halloween many people put on mask to be someone scarier then who the actually might be. But in my opinion, different masks are put on us everyday throughout our whole lives. As we grow older in life, we grow into so many masks that we forget who we actually are as a person. Another example is, as teenagers we are forced to put on a mask of being polite, respectful, study for test, say every positive thing you possibly can on your college resume just to get into the college you want. Even though we are forced to grow into the masks put on us, we shouldn't lose who we are inside.

[jameslica]

The Mask: An excuse to hide identity

While I was reading the story of Shooting an Elephant, I came across an epiphany with the class. The epiphany was when the author state, “ Here was I, the white man with his gun, standing in front of the unarmed native crowd – seemingly the leading actor of the piece; but in reality I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind. I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib. For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives," and so in every crisis he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him. He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it. I had got to shoot the elephant,”(paragraph 6). In this epiphany I conclude that the author uses the metaphor of putting on a mask in order to hide who really is so he won’t look like a fool in front of the Burmese. It’s kind of ironic because the white, imperialistic man was being controlled by the people he was sent to control. and with that being said, I believe that the author’s purpose through this is to show that humans are being controlled by different mask when they are supposed to be the ones controlling the masks they are putting on.

[im-andyjiang]

Masks & Evolution & Adaptation

The mask that Orwell refers to reminds me a lot of evolution and adaptation, and how we change ourselves to fit the mold that’s needed to survive. Humans and organism need to change in order to be able to compete, and I think that’s also very similar to the idea of masks in Orwell’s shooting an elephant. His “survival” depends on not being ridiculed and the mask that he’s growing to fit tries to keep him from such

[najaeratcliff-blog-blog]

Mask

I have the mask of pretending to be a smart ap biology student. I take on the homework and class work with the image like I know what I'm doing, when in reality I go home and struggle. My face has grown to fit the mask of being ap bio smart , I play it off really well but without the mask, You will see the confusion on my real face.