Journal 26
Write an argument about the following image.
Journal #26:
This image can be used for multiple arguments such as, an anti-war stance or an anti-draft stance. This image can also be used for both. The beauty of this image is a classic, pretty well maintained, piano in the middle of what it is seems to be the aftermath of a terrible fire. And yet with a eerie scenery the soldier next to the piano, simply playing it, creates a strangely hopeful atmosphere. This image can be used as an anti-war image by stating how behind the classical beauty there is destruction, and with the presence of the piano, and the soldier playing it, a feeling of gratitude toward the simplicities of life sweeps the central theme of the image. The image, just as well, can be used as an anti-draft image by stating how the soldier playing the piano creates calmness, but once the soldier moves on away from the piano, he will head off towards a grim path; hence, we question what it is that drafted young men are faced with when leaving behind the life they once knew.
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