The photograph depicts soldiers smiling after a fierce battle during a war. Evidence of their situation includes damaged clothing and guns held while sitting on earth bags. The photographer aimed to convey that despite the bloody fighting, the soldiers were happy having won the battle. The photograph provides historians clues to research the war's weapons, circumstances, timing, and outcome.
Smiling Soldiers Photo Raises Questions About Bloody War
1. 1. Who are the people in the photograph?
Soldiers
2. What is the situation of the people in the photograph? Provide evidence from the
photo that tells you this.
The soldiers were fighting in a war and it was so fierce and a great amount of
people dead during the war. Because they hold the guns and sat on the earth bags,
and their cloths were damaged, so the war was a bloody fighting. However, they
had already won because they were smile.
3. What message do you think the photographer was trying to convey?
The road had built just few months, because the border trees were so small. Third,
maybe it was early summer, because the leaves on the trees and the wheat seedlings
were flourishing.
4. Why is this photograph important to history?
Historians can research on the weapons and the circumstances to infer the war, for
instance, when did the war happen, who won the war and why did the war happen.
5. What questions does this photograph raise?
Why they smile? They won the war or they can come back to home?
6. Write your own caption for the photograph:
Smile in the war.
7. What could you do to find more information about this photograph?
2. I can find the model number of the guns, and who use that kind of tents. What is
more, the circumstance is so special and I can guess where it is.
8. Based on what you have observed list 3 things you might infer from the
photograph
1) The soldiers are so happy.
2) They had just finished an intensive fight.
3) They come from different countries.