Answer TWO of the following:
Q1: In an article in The New Yorker that first introduced these pictures to the public, the writer, Seymour Hersch, wrote, "The photographs tell it all" (117). According to Morris, why can a single photograph not tell the entire story--or really, any story? What makes it especially hard to tell this story with one photo?
Q2: Morris uses the Cheshire Cat from the book Alice in Wonderland to preface the essay and to end it. What is the significance of this? How does it help us see one of his main points from a different perspective?
Q3: Morris consults a "smile scientist" to help him decode the picture of Sabrina smiling while leaning over the dead body. How does the scientist use several pictures to prove that Sabrina isn't as guilty as everyone believes she is? What does a "Duchenne Smile" have to do with it?
Q4: Ultimately, Morris argues that we're asking the wrong questions about these photographs, and coming to the wrong conclusions. How are these pictures uniquely manipulated to help us "believe" that we're asking the right ones? What do they leave out?
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