What idea(s) does the photograph express?
PHOTO BY Michael Yon for TIME Magazine:
A U.S. Army soldier comforts a child fatally wounded by a car bomb blast in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad.
- You may answer creatively, critically, or personally.
- You must answer in prose.
- Your response should have a strong unifying effect.
- This assignment should be approximately 2 Pages in length
Soldiers face a lot of challenges in the battle field and those who survive have a lot to talk about once they are out of danger. Most people don’t think about the danger these individuals face in the line of duty as they are expected to protect the nation form danger.
The picture above portrays a soldier during the Iraq war trying to comfort a child who is injured in a car bomb set up by one of the attackers. The most important thing to look into this picture is the kind of emotion it gives to the audience. Both individuals in the image seem hurt although one is emotionally while the other is physically injured. The first idea that an observant individual would note down is that there are mixed feelings.