Lost Identity

         I didn’t really enjoy reading Edward Said's essay "States."  I felt like it was very repetitive and somewhat annoying. I understood the purpose of it but I felt like it was just over done, relaying the same points over and over again. I always like to look at pictures though since I am a visual learner. Below is my favorite picture from this work.

 

      I really liked this picture because it said that the children wanted to take the picture and I thought it was sort of cute. It was like a happy picture in the essay for once. I also think it is neat how they set up the picture in a line type format. Also, from bottom to the top, the children’s faces get a little more serious each child up the line. A lot of the pictures in this essay I didn’t really feel like they helped prove any point, all I saw were normal looking pictures.

        Compared to “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”, it was sort of terrible for me. Maybe it was because it was harder to read because Said kept throwing a bunch of random countries at me and it was sort of confusing and difficult to take in. I felt he didn’t do a very good job at using the photographs to his advantage like the author of “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” did.