American Soldier

1) This picture stuck out to me because you can see how scared Ian is without him having to make an expression. He looks nervous and all of this can be seen from just a blank face. I feel like this picture was perfectly timed to capture these emotions.

2) The images work together because they go in chronological order and work like a timeline. Each picture represents a different stage in his journey and the story can be told just by looking at the pictures.

3) The captions enhance the pictures by providing clarification where it is needed and by telling the reader things that they could not have seen just by looking at the pictures.

4) Ian Fisher enlists into the military at age 17 and must say goodbye to all his friends and family. He must now go through 14 weeks of basic training camp. The following weeks push Fisher to his limits as he must battle long days and hard drills. Fisher works hard but still suffers from injury, drug addiction, and being home sick. He questions if he should be in the army or not. Finally he flies off to Iraq and goes on many missions there. After one year in Iraq, he returns home to his mother and his girlfriend. He and his girlfriend get married just days after he comes back and they couldn't be happier.

5) Most of the captions are written in present tense.

6) 

A) Most of the captions are around 2 sentences.

B) The first sentence of the captions narrate what is going on in the picture.

C) The second sentence of the captions provide information that you can't get just from looking at the picture.

D) When there is a third sentence in the caption, it is sometimes a quote or a point a view from another person in the story like a commander or Ian's dad.

E) Yes, some captions include a quote.

F) Yes, some captions are 4 sentences but only 1 or 2.

7) I think it is possible to tell a story with just captions because yo can word it so that the sentences are long and provide a lot of information. However captions can't provide a lot of extra detail or side stories unless there is a picture with it.

8) Writing a story along with pictures and captions is important because you can provide more information and give more details. There might be some things that are worth talking about but there isn't a picture to go with it so you can't write a caption.