Most would agree that putting a smile on your face will almost allow a feeling of joy to start from within. Furthermore, what is known is that every coin has two sides and within that dark side, the smile has many different facets. Thought and discipline in civil resistance towards others who consider them inferior is a sign of a good man. In Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask" one aspect he shows is his oppression in the world and the vagueness that needs to be reflected upon; through his poetry, he shows the revolting world he lives in and the smile of darkness to hide from the evils of the world. In the opening stanza, it's all about concealment and deception hiding from a possible treacherous outcome. The author writes, “We wear the mask that smiles and lies / Hides our cheeks and shadows our eyes / This debt we pay to human cunning” (Dunbar 1-3). In the first line, it implies a group hiding their true feelings from others by saying we. It is the face of the deceptive refusal to accept wrongs as rights for the oppressors around them. The second line explains...