In Class: Visual Arguments

1. What overall impression does the visual text create in you?
This question is that the book asks you is a little tricky to answer because everyone sees an image in their own way so it would be hard for me to explain how I saw an image if someone completely disagrees with what i'm saying. Using visuals in general can be a task in itself because when the author or whoever it was that made the visual has to pay attention to what kind of message the picture might send to others or if it might offend some people or maybe they didn't use the right font size & type, blah blah blah. To me, the picture on page 420 shows five people standing in what looks like a line-up with the caption underneath stating The Usual Subjects, instead of Suspects. They all look like normal average people that would not cause a threat to anyone, but the fact that they are all not smiling in the picture makes you feel like you don't wan't to be close to them, especially with the background the way it is.