In comparing myself to Robert Coles as a documentary writer, I have found several similarities as well as some differences. I used some of the same techniques that he and the other documentarians used in their essays. I have also found that some of the techniques that I did not use of Robert Coles, Dorothea Lange, William Carlos Williams, and Paul Taylor; are some that I wish I would have. Dorothea Lange, a photographer, has …showed first 75 words of 960 total…

…showed last 75 words of 960 total…history of the 1930's into her discussion of these photographs. She simply wove it into her writings. I did not incorporate very much history of the Depression into my paper, although now, I wish that I would have. I wrote about how times were tough, and that some families had to go on relief, but besides describing my grandmother's day-to-day life, I don't think a reader could really understand how bad the Depression really was.