Stereotypes: What Is Subjective Reality?

One child is holding something that’s been banned in America to protect them. Guess which one. This image alone is visually disturbing; being that it pictures two young girls, one who is holding a book, the other grasping an M-4 automatic assault rifle. In addition, it is also powerful in persuading and shedding light to a sometimes sensitive topic for some Americans that feel strongly about the intended subject. However, who is the intended audience one might ask? How does this image portray subjective reality in today’s society? What was the artist overall meaning behind the ad, and how does it relate to society as a whole? Also, is the image factual? In my personally opinion, the artist intended audience is people who support the 2nd amendment. Along with families who fear that their right to bear arms, may one day be stripped from them. Using people’s pathos thinking against them, they chose small children to be the subjects of the image to assist getting their idea across. Individually, this can certainly pull at the heart strings of many people, if not all. This helps the artist attract and appeal to a larger audience, since we all know at least one child, and helps them use subjective reality to relate to the topic. Subjective …show more content…
Since, a young adolescent girl transports a bottle of wine in her basket to her sick elderly grandmother. The image brings this fact to the table, and forces the viewers to question if they really should ban our children from reading certain books? Are the contents of the book so bad that they themselves could be potentially a greater threat than a weapon? The appearance of this image encourages viewers to use their logos, pathos, and ethos to determine the answer. It visual captures the spectators in many ways. Ultimately, challenging them to unequivocally answer what hurts more stick or stones (the gun) or words (the book), hurts