Wes learned fast to use an indifferent expression like that described in the book as,” The ice grille… A look of blank hostility that masks two intense feelings… But the tough façade is just a way to hide a deeper pain or depression that kids don’t know how to deal with. A bottomless chasm of insecurity and self-doubt that gnaws at them”. Although his mother did the best she could but Wes never learned the proper coping techniques needed to handle his crippling self-doubts. This caused him to revert the aforementioned mask much like that mentioned in “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar, “We wear the mask that grins and lies/…With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,/…Why should the world be over wise,/… In counting all our tears and sighs?/” Wes learned early on to hide his feelings of weakness from a world he was struggling to find his place
Wes learned fast to use an indifferent expression like that described in the book as,” The ice grille… A look of blank hostility that masks two intense feelings… But the tough façade is just a way to hide a deeper pain or depression that kids don’t know how to deal with. A bottomless chasm of insecurity and self-doubt that gnaws at them”. Although his mother did the best she could but Wes never learned the proper coping techniques needed to handle his crippling self-doubts. This caused him to revert the aforementioned mask much like that mentioned in “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar, “We wear the mask that grins and lies/…With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,/…Why should the world be over wise,/… In counting all our tears and sighs?/” Wes learned early on to hide his feelings of weakness from a world he was struggling to find his place