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The world-famous photo of "vulture and little girl", the photographer committed suicide, what happened to the little girl?

War is cruel, it will not only lead to rivers of blood, but also make countless people displaced. Once they lose their homes, people will be very miserable. War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression was the cruelest battle in the history of our country, which reduced our country to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society and directly led to our country falling behind other countries in the world.

Once the war breaks out, the injured will always be innocent people. Only those who have experienced it personally know how cruel the war is, and they will become the people who cherish peace the most. After the war broke out, there was a kind of job that was extremely dangerous. They are war reporters. These people need to go deep into the battlefield to report, and danger will break out around them at any time. In order to obtain first-hand information, war reporters must shoulder their responsibilities and put their work first.

Photographer Kevin is an excellent war correspondent. He once went deep into the battlefield in Africa and took a picture of vultures and little girls. This photo won him a world prize, but it also brought him many questions. In order to wash away his grievances, the photographer chose to commit suicide. So what is the ending of the little girl in the photo?

When the war broke out, the African people suffered greatly.

In the 1990s, Africa was in turmoil, and artillery attacks caused great obstacles to agricultural and industrial production. The people have lost their source of livelihood and are worried about war all day long. Life is painful. Especially the Sudanese people. They can't even get enough food and clothes. Countless people starve to death every day, and there are remnants everywhere.

Kevin is a war correspondent. He works for many media. At that time, many people went deep into Sudan to report on the battlefield, so Kevin joined the ranks. During this period, he took a famous photo, which vividly showed the hungry and embarrassed living conditions of the Sudanese people.

In the photo, a little girl is dying, curled up on the ground, with a vulture behind her. Vultures eat meat, which makes people worry about this little girl. Because vultures love carrion, they are quietly waiting for the little girl to starve to death. Kevin won the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism because the content conveyed by the photos is very shocking, which is beyond the reach of every reporter. But before Kevin could enjoy the joy of success, he was pushed to the forefront by public opinion.

I couldn't stand being insulted, but I chose to commit suicide.

Before he had time to celebrate the award, two completely different views appeared in the media. One is to praise Kevin for recording such a rare picture. The second is to blame him. Many people think that since Kevin has time to record, why not help the little girl? Vultures are eyeing after her. Shouldn't Kevin rescue her immediately in such a dangerous situation? In the face of public doubts, Kevin had to explain loudly. He said that the little girl's mother was waiting in line to receive relief food, so the little girl would not starve to death.

But many people don't listen to the explanation. They just want to believe what they see. For a time, Kevin became the target of public criticism. He suffered many insults and was called a reporter with no professional ethics. Everyone is questioning why he didn't choose to drive away the vultures first when he saw this scene, but took out the camera record.

Kevin can pretend not to care about strangers' comments, but because of this, his friends around him began to question him and left one by one. In the face of heavy social pressure, Kevin was finally overwhelmed and chose to commit suicide. In this way, the industry elites have a bright future, but they are forced to end their young lives because of a photo.

Winning the Pulitzer Prize, when everyone thought Kevin was about to become famous, he suffered a fatal blow. In fact, the little girl in the photo was not eaten by vultures, because her mother received relief food, so she was lucky to survive. However, the impact of the war is lasting. The long-term turmoil led to hunger and poverty around the little girl, and eventually she died of illness.

It can be seen that the little girl's death is not directly related to Kevin. The reason why he took that photo at that time was completely out of the instinct of recording. But some people condemned Kevin without knowing the facts, which put him under great psychological pressure and finally ended his young life.

summary

War is cruel, which is why little girls are in danger. After seeing the photos, the public paid a little wrong attention. They were bent on accusing Kevin, but they didn't expect that the person who started the war was the culprit. The little girl recorded is only a microcosm of the Sudanese people during the war, when countless people died every day in Sudan because of the war. Therefore, after seeing the photos, we should reflect on the evil and cruelty of the war and cherish the peaceful life now, instead of blaming Kevin who exposed the cruel facts to us.