4/18/17 Sontag Essay
1. Sontag's gruesome and disheartening photos and words did a good job of making war seem pretty damn terrible. but yet, she argues that war will still seduce people even after seeing the results that come in the form of these photos. She tries to force the reader to be put through the horrors of these war scenes, but says that still just causes us to empathize. Empathy for these victims is all we can have, because she says we will never be in the position to truly imagine what its like for them.
2.A. Sontag touched on the idea that photos used to be entirely reality, because there was no technology to forge fakes. While i was writing my roommate showed me a video of a nuclear bomb test and the soldiers that were surrounding it. after it went off, they ll got up and walked toward the explosion. I thought that i had to be fake because they would just be walking to their unknowing deaths, but my roommate argued that just because they are doing something dumb, it isn't fake.
B. Something else interesting was the inclusion of the feminist ideals in the beginning of the essay. She talked about how the Women always have something they are trying to prove. This gives off a feminist vibe which is cool.
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This is a photo of some ruins in Syria. Although Syria has come to the forefront of the world's War News, this is only a recent development. For years many people ignored their cries for help, but since they became so loud people had to stop ignoring them. Looking at these ruins, one must ask oneself, for what purpose were all of these homes destroyed? Why was the conflict ignored until it reached this point?
