Many people had great hopes for the new technology developed at the start of the twentieth century, and the promise it held for improving human life. This same technology, however, led to improved weaponry -- including the chemical gas used in World War I.  The American painter, John Singer Sargent, made chemical gas the subject of his painting, Gassed.

Your task: Go back to your journal, and look at your first column.  You should have generated a list of information about both chemical gas and soldier's attitudes toward their experience in the war.  Click on the link to Sargent's painting and in your third column describe what you see in the painting that you think either matches your information or expresses an attitude toward war.  How do you think Sargent wants you to feel about the war, and what parts of the painting -- the color, the position of the people, the subject -- would make you feel that way?