ANALYSIS FOR WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

• “Blood stained into foreign dust”

  • Death penetrates and stains his subconscious
  • Refers to ecclesiasties 3:20 “All are from dust and from dust we shall return”
  • Dust is valueless , also shows that deaths are seen as figures rather than actual human loss
• “Running children in a nightmare heat”

  • Land mines impose a threat to children
  • Juxtaposition highlights Reference to napalm girl
• “for Sundays supplement”

  • Redolent of church , as the editor and readers may entertain this do to their belief that it is their Christian duty, but this is superficial and is paying lip-service to the idea of helping your fellow man in the name of religion.
• “all flesh is grass”

  • Biblical allusion to Isaiah 40 (" All people are like grass ") which signals that life is transient
  • Metaphor for bodies not returning to their homeland but decomposing on foreign fields turning into grass along time after the conflict was over
• “A half formed ghost”

  • Double entendre as he looks like a ghost as he’s not developed in film yet
  • And that he is actually a ghost due to dying in conflict
  • Or he and his death may not be seen
  • Young men are enlisted at a young age and may not be developed emotionally or intellectually
  • Or the man who died is not at rest as the conflict still ensues
• CONTEXT:

  • Napalm girl
  • Red light could be reminiscent of the tabernacle lamp
  • “simple weather” could link to British culture, constantly complaining about how bad weather is true suffering but it’s not