Response to Powerpoint

Incredibly poor housing and one parent to four children; Dorothea Lange's pictures depict a depressing scene. The thirty-two year old mother looks around 40-something and the children weep and are listless. Living in the middle of a field with no protection from the elements but a tarp and poles stuck in the ground convey feelings of hopelessness. The mother's contemplative concentration and concern for her and her children are evident and seem to express a need for help from any viewers. How she is going to provide for her family and ensure their very survival from one day to the next is shown/felt and serves as a grisly reminder to how terrible depressions are. The mother still wears her wedding ring, a small sign of hope perhaps. Few pieces of furniture (trunks included) signify the absence of comfort. The family is dirty and shaggy which is another indicator of poor living conditions. Feelings of pity and remorse emit from these photographs.