Respose to Kevin Carter Starving Child Photo

Initial reaction:
I was shocked, lost for words, and overall very sick to my stomach about 5 seconds after witnessing the photo. After looking at it a while i manly feel ashamed. Ashamed of my self and ashamed of the fact that this child is allowed to sit there and starve. I know the facts about world hunger and know its most likely the biggest problem with the world today, but still looking at the picture just set up a reality in my mind that the world is a much harsher place than it seems. It is extremely difficult to stare at the image for to long before guilt and dismay set in.

The Image itself:
The photo is of a small Sudanese child bent over on the rugged barren ground, looking terribly skinny and malnourished, basically wasting away. There is a vulture looming only 10 feet behind the child eying its likely next meal. It appears to be a hot day and the child is completely alone on the ground, looking to be close to death.

The Meaning behind the photo:
On the surface there is a starving child very close to death with a vulture looming behind. The underlying message of  the photo is simply saying wake up. Wake up to the American public and other nations around the world. There are cases of starving children just like this all over third-world countries and there is basically nothing being done about it compared to what could be done about it. These awful scenes of starving and sick human being are wake up calls that first shock viewers and make them realize that their world is suddenly not as kind as they thought it was. But their is also a question arising with this picture. And that question is what will/can you and the public as a whole do to help these situations become better.

After reading the subtitle:
The subtitle explains that the photographer took the picture as the child was crawling toward a food camp not far away. The photographer left directly after taking the picture. A few months later he committed suicide due to depression. This fact proved to me the impact that world hunger has on certain people and how it is such a heavy serious problem to have on one's self-consious. I now know that internal pain of one person can outweigh the external pain of another.