Textual Poaching

Creative Statement

This is famous photo taken during the great depression(minus my poaching). The photographer could not hace captured reality of this scene any better in this photo(see Seeing And Writing, John Long p. 684) I inserted myself into the back seat of the car. This pictures has meaning on a broad level and personal level.
Due to the recession our country is in right now the number of people living in poverty has soared. The Middle class is dwindling in America. In some ways we are experiencing some of the same things people did during the great depression. Although there are no soup lines anymore, there are millions of Americans on food stamps. The mis represented billboard reminds me of media today that misrepresents the lifestyle of most Americans. In most commercials today families live in perfect homes with white picketed fences. For example, the church used to air commercials where families looked extremely cliche' and did not reflect what society really was. 

My reasoning behind putting myself in this photo is on a more personal level.

Before my mission, especially during my childhood, I would often complain to my dad that we were poor and he needed to earn more money so we could travel more. In elementary and middle school, I has friends whos families were traveling to place like Hawaii or the Caribbean for vacation while we would just go to my Grandpa Bobs house. That was my thought process until I went on my mission. I went to Kentucky which is the second poorest state in the country. In one of my areas there were tons of poor African Americans that lived in small run down apartments and had lots of children living in them. These children seemed to be more happy then I was growing up and I had so much more then them. When I got home, all the things I took for granted in the past were now significant in my life. My Dad had a Job, we had two cars, we lived in a house - things that families in my mission didn't have at all.