Tereska Draws Her Home Analysis

Without the aid of the context, the content of Tereska Draws Her Home can be easily manipulated. The visual only provides a small portion of the information needed to know to grasp the depth and emotional message that the image is trying to send and the historical moment that it stands for. For example, without knowing Tereska’s situation, someone might assume she is around 6 years old and that it is normal for her to be drawing inept and jagged scribbles. Annette Shore comments that children continue to develop their fine motor control, so younger children (3 to 6 year olds) tend to create clumsy drawings with frolicking quality (Shore). Tereska is supposedly 8 or 9 years old. This is the revelation of discomfort that I felt when reading about …show more content…
An individual against four military tanks with the Chinese symbol printed on the sides; the image is strong and powerful, relaying a heroic and hopeful message to the Chinese citizens fighting for democracy. However, this photo, like others as well, reveals past and history that the Chinese Government does not want the people to know. So, in defense, they constrain this “cave of knowledge” to the people to prevent outcries and potentially more protests. With this, the Chinese Government acts as the deniers of the Holocaust. They try to reconstruct the past in order to obtain and maintain control, in effort to have the upper hand on knowledge of the people. The Chinese authorities still censor information regarding the Tiananmen Square Incident of 1989, with 2 million online censors (Thomas). But the question begs, why has Tank Man made more of an impact and is one of the top chosen photos among Widener’s other images taken during the Tiananmen Square Incident of 1989? Widener’s other photos depict much more violence or focus on one side of the massacre, displaying either the Chinese people or the Chinese government. Tank Man, though, depicts both sides equally, making its stance intimidating to the Chinese government. Tereska Draws Her Home in contrast, does not portray both sides of the Holocaust like Tank Man does. Seymour’s image does convey the consequence of the Nazis, but it does not visually show the people versus the government, per say. Tank Man does compare the two though, and in the image the two forces face each other as the two subjects defy the meaning of power. As this image remains motionless due to the man’s relentless personality and action to stand in front of the tanks, gives him power. As a result, the outcome detracts power from the government. There is an obvious need for control amongst the