The Mask

The artist gave Eric (the crow) a mask that looked more like a tragedy, but to the side of the mask he drew sort of a smiling face trying to almost hide the pain and comparing them both. Eveytime time Eric is in his house he remembers all the good times he had spent with his wife, and then brakes down crying. It's almost like a movie that starts of good, and happy, but then at the end you see the reality and it hurts even more. I think the artist drew the mask this way so that the readers can see that Eric is in pain from losing his wife and everything he had, but at the same time the smiling face is a way to hide his feelings from it, and even can be a pleasure he has of putting fear or killing criminals that do harm to others. An example of this is when Eric (the crow) is driving Tom Tom crazy, he cuts the lights of speaking to him in the dark, circles all around him, Tom Tom desperately scared shooting anywhere he heard noise. The Crow kept laughing and taunting Tom Tom, and then Tom just fell to the ground giving up, looking helpless against the Crow. The Crow looked as if he was powerful putting fear into Tom eyes. The mask are a way of showing his feelings, because at one point in his life he was happy with everything he had, everything was great, but then after the death of his wife everything had turned into tragedy, his life was a wreck, and full of anger.