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Still Me Inside Mia Goda
Are you wearing a mask? By: Olivia Smeltzer

Your personality is symbolic of you, until you wear a mask and no one knows who you really are anymore. People wear masks to change or transform from themselves in a good or bad way. One beneficial way is to protect others emotionally or physically. Another beneficial way is to gain self confidence. Masks can also be harmful or bad. For example, it would be bad if they are wearing a mask so you can hide from themselves and that’s not healthy. Another bad way to wear a mask is to cover up something bad that you did or that you are doing. Wearing a mask is both beneficial and harmful.

Wearing a mask can give you confidence and it can save someone’s emotions from something sad. The story Still Me Inside by Mia Goda is about a girl, Mia, who put on a “punk” mask to gain self confidence. People in this world, like Mia, put on a mask to gain self confidence. If a lot of people make fun of you for one
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Mask by Lucky Dube says “behind the masks of a clown lies a trail of tears”. When you’re being someone you're not, it can hurt you badly. When you take off your mask, you are back to being yourself and if you're not happy with yourself you become sad and/or mad. Masks by George Ulrich says “masks allow us to pretend”. When you are wearing a mask, you are allowing yourself to be whoever you want to be. You can pretend to be someone you’re not. Wearing a mask may transcend your feelings about yourself. When you’re wearing a mask you are not being your true self.

Wearing a mask is both beneficial and harmful. Masks are worn for multiple purposes. Some masks help people and some people use masks to suppress themselves. They can be worn to gain self confidence and save someone else’s feelings. But, they can be worn to cover something up or change your persona. Masks can be worn multiple ways, some beneficial and some harmful. But not everyone can be saved by a

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