Sunday, March 30, 2008

Tugging At Your Heartstrings...


I personally found this to be a very intense and moving picture that immediately grabs one’s attention. This picture is an incredibly emotional picture that makes a claim all on its own. The claim being that the conditions that people in Africa are living in is horrible. This picture clearly points out the terrible reality of starvation and suffering that is now common normalcy to even the smallest of the African children. The picture induces feelings of pity, disgust, horror and sadness all at once. These extreme emotions make people more likely to want to do something about helping the more unfortunate. The emotions help to persuade the audience of the atrocious and shocking conditions, and this picture shows the appalling health care and living conditions are in fact a reality.

1 comment:

Nichole Nelson said...

You sure know how to pick the images Kirsten! The plight in Africa really is bad, and these images show that. I was not sure at first how you were going to spin this as an arugument, but you did a good job. I think the only thing you left out was if it leads you to consider a verbal argument, or stands on its own.
I can see why you would want to help these children. Its horrible that we have so much, and they so little. At the same time though, some of our projects are leading Africa to such deprevation.