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Masks In Kurt Vonnegut's The Kid Nobody Could Handle

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Shakespeare once said “All the world’s stage and all women and men merely players” and throughout the tough times, we’ve learned to mask ourselves according to different characters in order to gain society’s approval that we solely forget to seek acceptance from ourselves. In the short story, “Everyone Talked Loudly in Chinatown” by Anne Jew, Lin puts on different masks as she interacts with her family and in school to live up to their expectations. While in the short story “The Kid Nobody Could Handle” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jim had accepted society’s view that he had forgotten about how he views himself, unlike Gene from “I Go Along” by Richard Peck, who had forcibly put on a mask despite knowing his true potential. All of these characters had

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