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This photo, entitled "Father And Sons," was taken in The Springs, California by Wing Young Huie. He includes it in his collection, Inside The Springs, which he made in 2007. This picture depicts a family of migrant workers, a father and his two adult sons, that immigrated to the United States from Mexico. They live in a small apartment shared with multiple other workers from the wine fields, so they could afford the already low rent. They hold photographs of family members that are still residing in Mexico. On the wall is a poster of Disneyland, complete with a votive candle, creating an alter of such.

Though this is all we an see based solely on the visual. Upon interpreting further, one can assume that these men moved to the United States not necessarily out of choice, but by need. We can assume this because they left their loved ones behind. It is likely that they took the journey to California in order to find work so they could earn enough money to build a life for themselves in this new country, as well as to send money back to their family. Maybe they hope one day their family can come and join them. Based on the Disneyland poster with a candle placed in front of it, I assume that the Disney stories are something they closely relate with America. It is possible that when they were in Mexico and were thinking of what it would be like to be in America, joyous trips to Disneyland were a part of their dreams.

In The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood presents the handmaid's as others, being fundamentally different than men, and even the other female figures in the novel. Even though handmaids are a part of the society of Gilead, and arguably serve as the most important force for the government's goal. She shows this through her narration technique of having Offred's voice being the only one included directly. This explains the separation between the handmaid's and the other of the society. Atwood seeks for the audience to empathize with the handmaids, since they see how the society's conditions negatively affects them.

Wing Young Huie shows the concept of othering through the subject of diversity within the United States. Although the United States is considered a "melting pot" of nationalities, some immigrants are still consistently not accepted, Mexicans being one of them. Huie shows this through the black and white coloring of the photograph. This differentiates them from the environment, to demonstrate that they are not one with their surroundings. The last sentence of Huie's description, "They are still waiting" is an attempt to get people to show empathy for the family and others like them. Since the audience knows their wish is to go to Disneyland, a hope so innocent and pure, they can see that migrants, even though they are not inherently American, they are still so much like us. We are all connected by the things we yearn for to make us happy.

Both Atwood and Huie seek to make the audience view others as people like them, and not alienated creatures, who barely have anything in common with them. They choose to do this by showing the tough experiences that others go through and emphasizing that others just want to be accepted into the group.