Rose Blanch

· What are the consequences of ‘just accept the situation in which you find yourself [so] everything will be so much easier’? (John Boyne, pg.53) Bruno’s Father to Bruno.

What happens by just accepting is being passive and not acting. A lot of people didn’t do something about the Holocaust because they were scared that if they did say something they would be killed or treated like the Jews. Though the people that did do something about it, such at the Rose Blanche and Le Chambon Sur Lignon were brave enough to do what they think is right. It is easier to accept the situation but it will just make it worse. If the Rose Blanche and Le Chambon Sur Lignon and the others didn’t do something about it, then the war might still be going on.

· What is the relationship between decisions and consequences?

The relationship between a decision and a consequence isn’t very big. The consequence depends on the decision you make. The decision can really impact the consequence but the decision also affects the consequence too. You have to choose a decision wisely and see if the consequence to it will have a negative impact on you.

• Is it right to risk bringing such danger on one's relatives and friends by challenging the forces of law and order? You might want to consider the villagers of Le Chambon.

I don’t think so but if you try to do something good for another person that is less fortunate then maybe yes. Just like the Chambon people did. They put their family in danger but they risked it to help somebody less fortunate than them.

Steve McCurry

Steve McCurry was born in 1950 and pursued film at the Philadelphia State University. Even though he wanted to be a documentary filmmaker he joined the newspaper as a photographer. His career took off when he went to Afghanistan and took pictures of the civil struggle before the Russians invaded.

Those images made him win the Robert Capa Gold Medal for Best Photographic Reporting from Aboard. In many of McCurry’s pictures are portraits or how the people suffer.

“Everyone wants Afghans to live their lives in a peaceful country where families can thrive, but our idea is to achieve that goal are often but built on faculty assumptions.” Steve McCurry

Two pictures that really stand out for me are Children of War, Tamil Tiger Recruits During Training, west of Batticola, Sri Lanka, 1995 and Children at Work, Tibetan Girl, 2002.

What McCurry is trying to emphasize in the Tamil Tiger Recruits picture is how some of us are so lucky to be healthy at home and don’t have to live in tragedy and war. Also how some of us have it easy and don’t have to put much effort in to anything we do daily.

What McCurry emphasizes in the Tibetan Girl picture has different emphasis. It shows how some children of our age and younger have to work in the fields while others are at home and don’t have to do anything. Also it shows how not only do the parents have to work but also their children.

Photography is about showing the personality of the person. It can change the way people see other people that are less fortunate than themselves. A great picture makes sense and the colors usually match the theme, it also shows feeling. McCurry’s work reflects the poverty in Asia and Pakistan and Afghanistan. It shows how people suffer and all the natural disasters that happen.