visual composition

I like this picture because right away it caught my attention before I even began to read the headline. At first I thought it was just a boy who was playing in a garage and to his mom’s disliking had gotten all dirty while doing so. Then I read the headline “Katrina Victims,” and I realize how sad this image really is. Now the background starts to fade in and I see a place where this boy used to live, this is actually his house. He is covered in mud and almost looks camouflage. This has a separate meaning to me because there are so many people whose lives were destroyed because of this hurricane but not many people outside of the south got to see that; so what are those people… camouflage. When I saw how he is standing I said to myself why is he holding his arms like that. Then I caught of glimpse of him holding something. It is a frog, and what I like about the frog is that it holds the same exact expression that he does; blank. As if to show that frog is exactly like the boy because the both share the word helpless.