Dorothea Lange Creative Writing Winner in 4th form euro
Par Nelly Sallibartan (Collège Germaine Tillion (91)) le 14 février 2019, 13:40 - Lien permanent
Pupils were asked to write a story based on one of Dorothea Lange’s photos. The text of the winner is just below but what would you have written?
I was travelling through California to see Paul Taylor, an economics professor of the University of California.
When I arrived there one early afternoon, I saw a community of men, regrouped around a building. I don’t know why this intrigued me so much but I went to see what was going on. Curious, I went to a man and asked what was going on. At first, he looked at me confused and annoyed, but then he told me all these men were waiting for a piece of bread. I felt worried but also shocked. I was submerged by questions in my head. I could hear men moaning at everybody, and felt so bad. How could I possibly let people as younger as me suffer like that? It was a horrible sight, as terrible as seeing a person getting beaten in front of me. All around me, it smelt people who seemed to have not washed for a month! I thought it was awful so I decided to photograph it and bring the plight of ordinary Americans into public view. I hope people will understand I took the picture to raise awareness and allow fraternity.