Response to the boston photographs
A picture is worth a thousand words, but no one ever says how much history, emotion, thoughts, and gut wrenching reactions some pictures are worth as well. Finding an image of war, an image that appealed to me as a thought provoking, deep picture, was one of the most challenging assignment for me yet of my college career. Not because of the difficulty or intensity of the writing, but because of the images I had to browse through, and the emotions it put me through. It was also hard to chose from the many images, because after so many websites containing thousands of snapshots of the dead, the wounded, and most of all, those pleading for their lives, I could not decipher which ones had had the deepest impact on me- to be honest I believed they all did in some way. After seeing enough that I could stomach, I stumbled across an image of a little girl. She is clinging to an object, and in the background there are adults holding children, and civilians who seem to be fleeing from somewhere. There are billows of black smoke that smog the air and probably come from fires and wrecks. Yet this little girl is standing alone, with a face of fear and sadness that is indescribable. It caught my attention at first because, as many of the ima
This picture shows war or the remains of where war and terror had existed and although here is nothing grotesque about the picture, and there are no captions surrounding it, it holds far more than words could ever explain. Seeing others in tragedy and as defenseless as the children are over there brings a new light to the "glory" of war. It can provoke many things by looking at it. Revenge for what happened on 9-11, and that the U. She is the largest image in the picture, the camera obviously focusing on the sensations and horror in the little girls face, and the background examples what this child's world has come to. I think pure concern and grief, such as I felt for this little girl as soon as I saw the picture, helps me open my eyes to what is happening beyond the picture. The image I chose is obviously touching in one way or another. It makes an emotional impact on us as Americans because this is not what our surrounding are, this is not what we live with and suffice our children to day to day- it is simply what we watch on the television in the comforts of our home, or hear on the radio in the comforts of our vehicles. I wonder if the smoke is coming from their houses or schools, and if we, the U. Seeing pictures like this can arouse many questions and feelings. Just by knowing that this is those peoples life, this is the place that the little girl lives and what she deals with everyday, is heart wrenching. Fear, nervous, wreckage, desperation, sadness, helplessness, innocence, and victim all come to mind when I glance at this picture. But, there are those who may look at the picture and feel as though we are winning.
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