Summary: Flavio After Asthma Attack

I am choosing the image of the boy lying on the center of the bed. I choose this image because it suddenly captures the suffering in his eyes, the appearance of his thin body, and the old dirty blanket that’s surrounding the place. Then I realized the boy was unwell because the text under the image stated “ Flavio After Asthma Attack, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961”. The image of the boy can be found by clicking this link “http://www.gordonparksfoundation.org/archive/flavio-1961?view=slider”. From the past to the present, poverty is all over the world. Some countries are worse than others, usually in Asian and Latin American country. The boy in the image grew up in poorest country with a large family. This image is not only what we perceived, but It reveals the deeper sentiment of hopeless, suffering (illness), powerless, and anxiety due to the poverty.
The first thing I perceived in the image is hopeless because a despairing boy who doesn’t get any help from other people. The appearance of the boy, and the content in the image says everything about it. The sadness in his eyes cries for help and the bony body requires food. Moreover, he needs a secure shelter to stay like …show more content…
He was worried about what he will have to eat for tomorrow. He didn’t only worry for that, but he probably worry for even greatest than can danger to the world because of his poor living condition. Why? This can cause incurable disease. If others people keep living like the images, there is many chance that they can spread variety of disease easily to one another. For example, when we look back thousands of years ago, a disease called the bubonic plague, also known as “The Black Death”. People didn’t only died hundred and thousands, but Eliminated twenty five million people because of the way they live. That is frightening, because it can kill enormous number of people. This is probably why he is worry of his surrounding love