Analysis of a Still Image

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Analysis of a Still Image

The denotation of the image which I can see in the frame is a bible

with a rose and handcuffs. There is a open bible, the rose looks dead

which represents funerals and it looks cut, one of the type or roses

you would find in a flower shop and the handcuffs are in the middle

right on top of everything else.

In the frame the first object I see is the bible, the bible connotes

beliefs, religion and god, church, holiness, commandments (rules) and

Christmas because at Christmas people often read the bible with their

families. It also associates Jesus, truthful and the innocence. The

bible also shows good VS evil. A bible is a holy book the most

important book in the Christian religion. The second object is the

dead rose which connotes, going to die, closed, love, sympathy

funerals and weddings. The handcuffs connotes police, law, isolating,

secure, stop, block , arresting, detaining, criminal, negative, bad,

and evil.

One of the things this image altogether is showing me is that the

bible shows me that someone who must have been quiet holy made a crime

by mistake and has committed murder. The handcuffs repentant the crime

because people usually get handcuffed when they commit a crime and the

dead rose represents the person who they murdered.

Another connotation of this image could be someone was murdered in a

church. The bible in this case represents the church and the rose

represents someone dieing and the handcuffs represent criminals.

It could also have been a funeral of a police officer because the

bible shows someone who done good in there life and the rose shoes

there red and the handcuffs show a piece of equipment which reminds

you of a police inspector.

The final connotation of this image could be poster set up by the FDI

department or maybe a cultures group in order to show the people of

this century the right way of live, and if you chose the wrong way

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