Father and Child - Commentary

Hey,

today after explaining you in French that you NEEDED to work more and more regularly, we continued the lesson about American gun culture. We corrected the commentary that you had to make for today about the picture with a father and his child.

Here is what we said about it:

The document is a photograph in black and white which puts emphasis on the contrasts. It deals with the impact of an unregulated arms trade in the world and more precisely in the US where a gun culture is wide-spread.
It aims at denouncing this circulation of weapons and also at making people react.
Indeed this picture is rather shocking at first sight because the logical rules are subverted:
A man is holding his daugther in his arms but at the same time he is holding the butt of the pistol in his other hand. It's as if he were pointing the gun at her / as though he were targeting her, even if his finger is not on the trigger and the safety clutch is on.

Additional vocabulary: 

a well-cut beard
(to) be well-combed
proud
aggressive
self-righteous
battle dress trousers
It's a matter of self-defence

HW: for next time, learn this commentary + make sure you read your text again entitled "Gun Culture" so that we can move on more quickly with it next time.

Files: download a copy of the picture here. (yet to be uploaded)