American Soldier

A. For me the most powerful picture is the picture of Fisher checking his stance and the position at the training learning how to salute. This picture is focused on him how he learns to be one of the army mens. It shows him in one of the first weeks concentrating and looking for the theater to do nothing wrong. We can see that he takes it really seriously and how serious it is. 

B. The pictures tell us a story about Fisher and his way to the army and at the army. The pictures are all black and white and inmost of the pictures we can see Fisher. The emotions over the time at the army are made really clear and we see how it changes over the time. 

C. After reading the captions I could understand the pictures better and what was going on at them. I wasn't really sure at the beginning by just looking at the pictures which emotions Fisher was feeling. 

D. Ian Fisher realized at the age of 17 he had the dream of joining the army on day. After graduating High School at the Lakewood’s Bear Creek High School  he did exercise and the medical exam to make his dream true. His first step after a big goodbye party was joining 14 weeks basic training. Hs first weeks were hard for him. He got scared that he wasn't good enough and additionally it became a problem that he had a childhood injury. But this was just a phase of the 14 weeks and he got the feeling to be a soldier. They started the group training and got allowed to continue it. The trainers say he is a good kid and came a long way.  It is a hard time and he knows that, you have stuff to carry. He completes the first phase and gets a blue cord signifying. He learns to cover himself in the woods and control pain. 

After the basic training he changed and we can see the difference in how hard he did sports to exercise to be a soldier. On a weekend home he made a spontaneous proposal to his girlfriend Kayla. 

He joins another training in Camp Red Devil 11 months before leaving two Iraq. During this time Fisher did a lot drugs and his father is concernd about that. After that he puts himself in danger of be kicked out and tells the army about his drug problem but the battle commander gave him another chance. 

He finally flys to the Iraq and had a good time there. After all this e finally marries his fiancé. 

   

E. Present

1. the captions are usually 3-4 sentences.
2. The first sentence explains whats happening in the photo.
3. The second sentence explains what you can't get from looking at the picture.
4. The third sentence has a quote from the person.
5. yes many photos have quotes.
6. yes there are some with four sentences.

G. Because most of good pictures already tell a story by interpreting what are they showing its also more interesting. 

H. People can misunderstand the meaning of pictures really fast and also if they want to know more its better to write an explanation and background informants about things you can't see on the pictures.