The Problem We All Live With By Norman Rockwell Analysis

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Throughout Norman Rockwell’s painting, The Problem We All Live With, he challenges our forward-looking depictions of school desegregation by using subtle yet genius artistic clues displaying the problem between its implementation and its real-world effects on black children that choose to attend a white majority school. Rockwell likely isn’t an opposer to school desegregation, but he uses his painting to outline its early drawbacks and dangers due to its insufficient implementation into society. Presented in the painting, a young black girl eagerly walks to school, closer to the men in front of her rather than the men behind her, exhibiting her innocent ambition to attend a “white” school. A clean black girl dressed in a bright white dress

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