Migrant Mother: Photograph Analysis

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What I have learned about the migrant family shown in Migrant Mother from examining it, 1. first for the photograph what I learned about it was that the children were gathering around the mother they look afraid, with no hope, they are with the mother, to be comforted, and to be relaxed by the mother, and the mother is there with a hopeless and worried look on her face, it's like she needs a lot of help immediately, they all have the same feelings, all need help. 2. now for the printed text about this photograph, in paragraph 3 it says in the Woman and her three children, stranded in a roadside canvas lean to, in paragraph 2 I saw and approached the Hungry and desperate mother as if drawn by a magnet, there she sat in that lean to tent with

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