Answer:
1. What does this image say to you? Be specific.
The image depicts sadness, despair, economic plight, poverty. It depicts hopelessness. The picture is one of the most famous taken during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
2. Can you relate to this woman and her two children?
She's very likely their mother, for the way that the two children cling to her. If not, she could be their aunt or step-mother. She is definitely not likely to be family unrelated to the children.
3. Approximately how old do you believe this woman to be? Her children? What made you come to that conclusion?
The woman must be in her late 30s or early 40s. The children are probably around 5 or 6. Their ages can be inferred by their physical appearance.
After the Second World War , the creation of a Jewish state was decided and mass migration of Jewish people went to live in the newly created state.
The influx of people caused problems, namely if forced the nation of Palestine to move and it created conflict with the local Arab population.
Also, the Australian Jewish community today is a migrant community that is still growing in size. Its growth started when Jews escaped Nazi rule seeing refugee in Australia.
