Post One 

The image that was chosen was the Plains Museum, taken in the year of the 2012 in Fargo, North Dakota. The  title that Wing Young Huie gave to this art work was Most of My Friends Hate America.

In this photograph, a woman wearing a Captain America costume holding a sign that says "Most of My Friends Hate America". This is placed right in front of a building on the sidewalk, there are cars and a person in the background but they are blurred out with the focus solely on this woman. By looking deeper into picture, you can see that the woman's facial expression, although wearing a Captain America costume, is not very patriotic at all. She actually looks like she was forced to wear the outfit or is embarrassed to be seen in it. Also when looking closer into the sign that she is holding, the only words that are capitalized are "hate" and "America". This shows that her friends do not just dislike America, they feel very strongly about their feelings against this country. Overall this seems to be an odd along with ironic picture because of the emphasis on the "HATE AMERICA" yet the main person that is the focus of the photograph is wearing a Captain America suit. It is almost as if Wing Young Huie is presenting the United States as a changing nation into something that was never thought before. Hue might be trying to show that a strong sense of national pride is no longer a common theme throughout the United United States.  

Looking at both the way that Wing Young Huie's photograph is presented along with the way Margaret Atwood presents  The Handmaid's Tale, it is actually very similar. The use of language from both Authors is very interesting from both authors with each of them using it to portray or give off a changing society. Obviously Atwood's is much more in depth because of the type of text that she chose being a novel whereas Hue only had the space of photograph. Although Huie used a photograph, language is still a prevalent effect on her work with the capitalization of the last two words on the sign. With limited words she still added another dimension to her picture, by doing this, she hinted at the fact that the society of the United States is changing into a more negative state. Margaret Atwood does this as well, using language very effectively to highlight a changing or changed society. One difference would be is that in Atwood's case would be that instead of talking about all of the United States, she is only referring to the small city of Gilead. Along with the fact that the societal change in Gilead was much more radical and permanent while Hue is referring to a mere shift in thinking of the general view of the United States. Another difference would be the type of language techniques that Atwood used compared to Huie. With limited space Huie had to use capitalization, but Atwood had plenty of space to use more in depth language choices such as vast similes and metaphors. Finally Wing Young Huie also had the advantage of using color with the bright contrast of the grey background and the red, white, and blue of the Captain America costume really highlighting Huie's message. It is easy to make the disparity between the bright American colors and the grey, but with having a novel format you can only imagine what the colors would actually be.

Link To Picture: http://www.wingyounghuie.com/p970478690/h669adbf9#h669adbf9