People can shroud much more than just their appearances. They can obscure their true intentions, their inner nature. Once their true colors are revealed, the rush of treachery and deception will ultimately betray someone and leave them with their soul crushed, heart broken. This is the case in the novel Warcross by Marie Lu. This novel centers around a high tech virtual reality game that changes the way one sees the world around them: Warcross. Emika Chen, a broke teenager who lives and breathes Warcross, accidentally glitches into the final match of the championships trying to steal a powerup out of the game. This puts a spotlight on her and gets her the attention of Hideo Tanaka, the creator of Warcross. At first, Hideo seems like a formal, …show more content…
Hideo Tanaka, CEO of Henka Games and the creator of Warcross, is no different. When Emika first meets him, he seems like a regular head of a company; he is indifferent, cool, and emits that air of superiority, but is sometimes playful and goofy. Emika, however, is a prodigious data miner. She quickly finds out about Hideo’s dark side after watching a video of Hideo punching his bodyguards with an inhuman fury and “shivers at the memory of his expression, of those vicious, dark eyes, absent of any hint of the playful, polite, charismatic version of himself that I thought I knew” (Lu 174) The facade that Hideo put up fades quite quickly and exposes Emika to the real Hideo, the one that will stop at nothing to achieve his ultimate goal. While Emika develops a close bond to the docile side of Hideo, she is dreadfully unaccustomed to the side of him that is savage and unthinking. The change in emotions and drive scares her, and frankly, broke her heart, because she is confident that she is starting her relationship with a cool, calm, and collected man. The false demeanor he is donning deludes the whole world every time he is in public. The way the world views him and treats him drastically changes when Hideo gives them the impression that he is a formal person of esteemed background instead of a casual, unofficial person with a lowly heritage. In life, people throw up multiple facades in order to hide their …show more content…
Hideo Tanaka is the epitome of a rogue; a person who has another goal in mind as he announces one to the public, often behaving in an unpredictable way. Hideo proclaims to the public as his ‘special new idea’ a way to integrate even the poorest of communities into the game of Warcross. His idea is to ship off contact lenses that let someone play Warcross worldwide, but they got stolen halfway through the shipment. When Emika asks Hideo what he thinks of it, he says that the new version of Warcross is designed to hack into the minds of people and prevent them from making rash decisions, and that having them stolen and distributed is even better. Emika is taken aback, “You want to be a … dictator? You want to control everyone in the world?” (341) Emika is under the false pretense that Hideo is planning to change the world peacefully, by uniting every living being through the game of Warcross, but in reality, Hideo plans a much more dastardly approach to creating world peace. His method is mind control. At first, Emika stands there in shock, she didn’t perceive Hideo to be that kind of person. As Emika got to know him more, he still remains a man who wants to make a change on the world mutually with the people. But of course, looks can be deceiving, and Emika found that out in a flurry of emotions as Hideo unleashes his autocratic plan onto the world of Warcross. Politicians do this
Throughout the story the author discusses how Toyo-o’s father and bigger brother scorn him for his irresponsibility and laziness, since he fails to take up any responsibility to help with the family business. This shows that, in the Japanese culture, a man is...
We think people act the way that their true identity is. Every person has disguised
...le knowing their identity, so that they do not have to face the judgments of others. "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person! Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth!" (Velvet Goldmine).
The world is full of people who portray themselves as someone or something else. People
Masks are a way an individual expresses themselves with various types of people. We are given different occasions and have to act a certain way to do so. Gergen states that the cause of having a mask is “When an individual seeks approval from this diverse range of personalities,he or she adopts a wholly different mask or public identities.” (197) Each person has a different personality when they are with certain people, based on actions and reactions. For instance, when having a guest visiting for the first time, we tend to look our best and choose the best way to make them feel welcome. We tend to hide things that don 't seem “appropriate” and take out things that seem new. We probably don’t notice, but we create a mask based on appearance since we are hiding the reality based on their first
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• Facade pg 209; an outward appearance that is maintained to conceal a less pleasant or credible reality
The physical effects of war overwhelm the naïve causing pain and suffering. Initially, war entangles the lives of youth, destroying the innocence that they experience as an aspect of their life. The girl “glid[ing] gracefully down the path” (1) and the boy “rid[ing] eagerly down the road” (9) have their enjoyable realities striped by the harshness of war. Likewise, war enters women’s lives creating turmoil. The woman who works “deftly in the fields” ( ) no longer is able to experience the offerings of life. The “wire cuts,” ( ) pushing her away from the normal flow of life. In addition, man undergoes tragic obstacles as a result of war. “A man walks nobly and alone” ( ) before the horrible effects of war set in on his life causing disruptions. War enters the life of man destroying the bond man shares with his beloved environment ( ).
...en. The society is facing a challenge of whether or not the world should stop mental control or keep it going with the worry that it may take over the world one day. More realistically though, it could turn man into a community of people who is controlled by the government and does not have any emotions and can not figure out anything for themselves.. If the world misuses psychological conditioning enough, it will be a threat to humanity and that is not something that people of this world should think of as something good, because it could potentially ruin all of mankind together.
In Hedges' first chapter of the book titled, "The Myth of War," he talks about how the press often shows and romanticizes certain aspects of war. In war there is a mythic reality and a sensory reality. In sensory reality, we see events for what they are. In mythic reality, we see defeats as "signposts on the road to ultimate victory" (21), Chris Hedges brings up an intriguing point that the war we are most used to seeing and hearing about (mythic war )is a war completely different than the war the soldiers and journalists experience ( sensory war), a war that hides nothing. He states, "The myth of war is essential to justify the horrible sacrifices required in war, the destruction and death of innocents. It can be formed only by denying the reality of war, by turning the lies, the manipulation, the inhumanness of war into the heroic ideal" (26). Chris Hedges tries to get the point across that in war nothing is as it seems. Through his own experiences we are a...
stress and fear by the men at the front in the First World War. In
When attending a masquerade, a person is expected to wear a mask. In fact, it’s looked down upon if a mask isn’t worn. But, what if for some people that mask never came off? In A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, each character has constructed their own metaphorical mask that they set firmly in place every morning when exiting their bed. Each character: Nora, Torvald, Kristine and Krogstad all have masks that they put in place when speaking to each other. Throughout most of the play, it is clear that all of the aforementioned characters have multiple facades that they use when speaking to one another; often switching quickly as they begin speaking to someone else. Henrik Ibsen’s use of the masquerade serves as an extended metaphor to show the masks that the characters use in their everyday lives.
It can be hard to fully comprehend the effects the Vietnam War had on not just the veterans, but the nation as a whole. The violent battles and acts of war became all too common during the long years of the conflict. The war warped the soldiers and civilians characters and desensitized their mentalities to the cruelty seen on the battlefield. Bao Ninh and Tim O’Brien, both veterans of the war, narrate their experiences of the war and use the loss of love as a metaphor for the detrimental effects of the years of fighting.
The Sorrow of War is a novel written by Vietnamese writer, Bao Ninh. First published in 1990, it came from being his graduation project to one of the most prestigious piece of literature in history. This work of fiction focuses solely on a seventeen-year-old male named Kien and his life from pre-war to post-war. What many people are oblivious to is the fact that Ninh had his own share of time in war when he served in the Glorious 27th Youth Brigade. Having said that, it is utterly safe to imply that Ninh’s time in war has a strong reflection in Kien’s characteristic traits and experiences that he endured in the novel.
life as playing the role of the fool. This disguise can be taken as a