Kevin Carter and the Sudanese girl - John

This is the infamous photograph of the Sudanese girl, if anyone's read my post about my ideas on writing my own novel. It shows a starving girl crawling towards a feeding center while the vulture waits for the poor girl to die. Kevin Carter was infamous due to the fact that he had not done anything to help the girl, but instead waited the vulture to spread his wings and take the picture. After a while, Kevin Carter got impatient and simply took the picture without the vulture spreading it's wings. No one knows exactly what happened to the girl, weather she died of starvation or she crawled to salvation, but I pray for the latter option to have taken place.

This picture has nothing to do with Slaughterhouse but it does have to do with the blog post about our own ideas on novels.

Also, I would like to note that this is an enormous reason as to why I do not and will not ever believe in fate. It should not ever be the fate of some poor child to starve to death. No person should have the right to look at this image and say: "That was her fate." This is clearly not true as people such as Kevin Carter had the choice to stop what was happening. He had the ability to help but rather chose not to. World hunger is not a problem that's beyond the powers of human society. It is not fate that has led to millions of humans to die of starvation but rather apathy for those in need that have caused us to choose this world filled with pain and sorrow. Fate is no excuse for why things happen the way they do. Choices are what determine the outcome of a situation.