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2645 Redefining America 7. How do the details, especially the lines, in the photo of the inmates loading bodies of coronavirus victims into refrigerated trucks create the photo%u2019s mood? What perspective on this job does the photographer convey? What techniques does the photographer use to convey that perspective? Use details from the photo to explain your answer. 8. How does the perspective from which the photo of the stay-at-home order protest is taken comment on the event? Where does the power seem to be? How does the photographer create that impression? What other signs and symbols comment on the balance of power here? 9. In what ways does the photograph of the socially distanced graduation ceremony in California honor the traditions of high school graduations? How does it deviate from them? Which does the photo highlight? 10. What is the effect of seeing the figures of a mother and her son walking among the flags in the photo of artist Suzanne Firstenberg%u2019s Washington, D.C., installation? What comment might the photographer, Roberto Schmidt, have been making through the composition of his photo? Note particularly the diagonal line in the foreground, the color of the trees, and the streetlight in the background. 11. How does the photo of the cars of people waiting for vaccinations in Denver depict the impact and importance of the availability of vaccines in January 2021? QUESTIONS Topics for Composing 12. Argument. To what extent do the photographs here create a clear view of the pandemic? Use your memories, if you have them, or what you%u2019ve read and heard, if you don%u2019t, as evidence to support your argument. 13. Analysis. Choose one of the photographs and write a %u201cformal%u201d analysis, that is, an analysis that explains the way the work%u2019s visual elements have been arranged to create the photo%u2019s argument. 14. Argument. Writer Susan Sontag claimed in her 1977 essay %u201cOn Photography%u201d that photography limits our understanding of the world. Support, challenge, or qualify her claim using the photos here and your own experience as evidence. 15. Multimodal. Create your own photo essay that chronicles a time or event that has had reverberations beyond your own circles. Write about what the camera sees that you might have missed just by looking. QUESTIONS Topics for Composing Waking Up from the American Dream Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (b. 1989) is the author of National Book Award finalist The Undocumented Americans , as well as essays on beauty, immigration, music, and mental illness for the New York Times , the New Yorker (where this piece appeared in 2021), The Atlantic , the New Republic , and Glamour . She is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Yale University. KEY CONTEXT To be undocumented means to be without legal papers proving identity or immigration status. Undocumented immigrants are not authorized to work, though of course they do, and they are subject to search and detainment by immigration authorities. NATHAN BAJAR/The New York Times/ReduxCopyright %u00a9 Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. Distributed by Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. For review purposes only. Not for redistribution.