A safe baby and mommy, but a dead daddy. Is it worth it?

This photograph allows the viewer to sympathize with the pregnant woman because of it's angle, focus, and subjects. If an adult, about the same hight as the woman was standing at the funeral a couple feet away from the woman, this is what they would see. The view does not look at the woman from below, like a childs view, or from above. Instead, it's straight on. This may be used to remind viewers that a death in the family can happen to anyone. The angle is personal and the woman is relatable. It is a side view of the woman, so we're not able to see her face completely. As humans, we naturally do not want to see someone in mourning, and sometimes try to pretend it's not happening. We want everything and everyone to be content. This may relate to some people's perpective of the war. They know it's going on, but they do not know how to face it. The camera is focused in on the woman and the american flag, leaving the background images (white wall, man in uniform) blurred. This relates to the woman's situation. She is consumed by the death of her husband, and probably can not think about anything else going on in the world but her baby and that. The subjects in the photograph are the man in uniform, the woman, the baby, and the man in the casket. Even though we can not see the baby or the man in the casket, it does not take away from the significance of them. Only part of the casket is shown, but the upper part of the womans body including her baby is shown. This may be trying to say that death is bound to happen, and that you have to move on and focus on what's important now, and in this case that is the baby. Overall, this picture portrays the serious nature of the Iraq war. It's not an event that's unimaginable and distant. Instead, it's real, and it's effect are deadly and tragic. The Iraq war leaves families devastated, and leaves mothers alone to take care of a child. A child that will never meet his father because his daddy was never able to make it home alive.

If i was including this image in an argumentative essay, i would argue the visual as proof of the tragedy the Iraq war causes. I would elaborate on lives left behind, like the mother and baby in this picture. I would also focus on how the casket is pushed aside, and has an American flag on it. Instead of being open casket, which may be grotesque and too hard ot deal with, the casket is closed and covered. A mother with a soon to be born baby would not need to see her husband's dead body because she would have enough to deal with already. The man in uniform in the back would be important to mention, because it shows the heroic and respectable aspect of the father who died.

The caption i would put for this photograph is "A safe baby and mommy, but a dead daddy. Is it worth it?" This caption is trying to appeal to Pathos, because death is an extremely emotional event. I wanted to emphasize how the mother and baby are still alive, but their hearts will be broken and unmendable because a wife will never see her husband again, and a baby will never meet his/her father. The logos in the caption is "Is it worth it?". This brings up the importance of whether the Iraq War should be fought or not, since it ends up killing innocent people.