Summary Of The Boston Photographs By Nora Ephron

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In the essay “The Boston Photographs”, by Nora Ephron speaks about her interest in pictures and writes about controversial pictures of a rescue that she witnessed. She tries to show her emotions to the audience with disturbing and devastating images to draw the readers in with those images of photojournalism. For example, in the second photograph and third photograph she states “the fire escape slipping off the building. The child had fallen on the escape and seemed about to slide off the edge. The women was grasping desperately at the legs of the fireman, who had managed to grab the ladder. The third picture showed the women and child in midair, falling to the ground. Their arms and legs were outstretched, horribly distended.” In those two