Pictorial Of The Middle Passage Essay

Assignment 2 In my opinion, Tom Feelings’ pictorial of The Middle Passage is not a useful tool because of its blurry drawings, the order of pictures and large room for interpretation. The pictorial seems to value quantity over quality, as most of the drawings are very blurry. Although the gray scale makes the pictorial look older, the shading in the drawings clumps everything together and it is difficult to see the details. For example, in many of the drawings that include white men, the shading makes the white men look like ghosts and not actual people. Also it is difficult to see the background, like the water and the ships. Adding on to that, the order of the drawings is very confusing. There are many drawings of torture, crying, babies and Africans being thrown/jumping into the water but there is no specific order. The drawings just go from one thing to the next and you just have to make up your own idea of what happened. This leads into my next point about how there is a lot of room for interpretation. Looking at the pictorial you can make up a story in your head, but that story can be completely different from the person sitting next to you looking at the same pictorial. I showed this pictorial to my friends who are not in IAH205 and asked them what they thought was going on. They all came up with very different story lines as to what was happening and since there were no captions or explanations of the drawings, they all assumed that what they said was correct. So yes I do think that Tom Feelings’ pictorial of The Middle Passage is not a useful tool because of its blurry drawings, the order of pictures and large room for interpretation, especially for people who have no background information on the topic. This pictorial does tell us …show more content…
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