Gordon Parks

Flavio’s Home, Gordon states, “I’ve never lost my fierce grudge against poverty. It is the most savage of all human afflictions, claiming victims who can’t mobilize their efforts against it, who often lack strength to digest what little food they scrounge up to survive. It keeps growing, multiplying, spreading like a cancer.” (Parks) This is evident within the writing of Gordon Parks’ Flavio’s Home and Parks’ personal background plays a key role in the framing of this story. Gordon had a poverty-stricken

Flavio’s Home is a short essay written by Gordon Parks about a twelve year old boy and his family, who live in severe poverty. Parks uses Flavio’s Home to show the devastating effects from poverty and how action needs to be taken to help those in need. Parks shows how he feels about poverty in the opening sentence of the essay by stating, “I’ve never lost my fierce grudge against poverty. It is the most savage of all human afflictions, claiming victims who cant mobilize their efforts against it

Understanding that there is a big separation between rich and poor, Gordon Parks was in for a rude awakening in ‘Flavios Home’ when he came face to face with a family doing all they can to survive. Parks comes across a young fellow named Flavio da Silva who was struggling to carry water in a tin over his head and is immediately intrigued to learn more about him. Having an assignment over poverty, Parks took the chance to get better insight by following Flavio home. Recreating the environment and

Photographer and writer, Gordon Parks, in his essay, “Flavio’s Home” reveals the struggles of families in poverty in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, highlighting a social-political concern faced in many countries. Parks’ essay, originally published in Voices in the Mirror during the 1990’s, adopts an evocative tone in order to appeal to the incognizant rich to

Gordon Parks’ distinguished way of capturing poverty in Rio de Janeiro, as mentioned in the Essay “Flavio's Home,” demonstartingdemonstrating the struggles of families in poverty . Photos taken by Parks made it on Life magazine which were originally based on his autobiography Voices in the Mirror in the 1990s, to inform the inconsiderate rich about the cruel living standards of innocent men, women, and children. Parks’ graphics are meant to show the reader how many people in Rio de Janiero are dying

Parks focuses on the relevant issues that nations face such as poverty, education, ignorance, deficiency, and charity. His story ended up on the issue of Life magazine as “Freedom’s Fearful Foe: Poverty” on June 16th, 1961. Once he arrived at the favela named Catacumba, Parks runs into a boy named Flavio that catches his attention because of his appearance; scrawny, filthy, tired, and miserable. Parks begins following the boy to his house and uses ethical

than others.“Flavio’s Home” by Gordon Parks, published 1990 was inspired by his autobiography, voices in the mirror. The essay gives a perfect example of what extreme poverty is like. Even though there are difficult times in life, no matter what, just keep going. “Flavio’s Home” did use ethos as a rhetorical appeal but was mainly focused in using pathos. Those who would most likely relate to this essay are people who have experienced tough situations. What Gordon showed as his main concern or issue

inferior. The black community were subjected to many difficulties including economic, social, and educational discrimination. Gordon Parks is able to show the discontentment with their lives and the adversity that African-Americans must face through his photography. With his work we are able to see the effects of oppression in the daily life of an African-American. Gordon Parks captures the plight of African-Americans by focusing on the surroundings that show the severity and hardships that plagued

What is it like being poor? To live not knowing when the next meal is going to be? To not have a bed to sleep on? Gordon Parks answers this exact question about life in poverty in his essay titled “Flavio’s Home.” Gordon Parks, throughout his life, came to be one one of the most prominent African American photographers producing many great works. In Parks autobiography Voices In The Mirror which was written in 1990, “Flavio’s Home” which is an essay written for people interested in establishing

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