A picture paints a thousand words. But what the picture paints is another question...
I refer to the picture about the monkeys and the man at the following website: http://english2b.edublogs.org/. You may also want to look at the post done by (Manke, Angeline, Liyana and Jia Jia) I refer to that same picture.
First of all, the picture shows two monkeys eating the brains out of a man, who seems helpless. The top of the man's head has been exposed and his brains are showing. His face is stuck in a hole in the table, while the rest of his body kneels down under the table. By looking at the man, you sort of feel pitiful for him. You would imagine the pain he must have felt. Still, the message is simple. Don't we do that to the monkeys? Well, some of us do and sometimes we do not feel any emotions. When it comes to the humans eating the brains out of the monkeys, some people don't react at all and they find it a delicacy. However, once the tables have been turns, the reactions we get are different. Thus, this picture brings out a simple message. Do not do something to someone when you do not want the same thing to return to you. When you look at the picture, your emotions get triggered. Also, if you have noticed, the man is looking directly at you. His eyes and your eyes soemwhat meet. There is a reason why the he looks at you like that. Firstly, if he did not look at you, the impact of the picture might not have been strong enough. But now that he is looking at you, you start to feel yourself in his shoes, in his situation, and when that happens, many of your emotions get 'activated' because you would know how it is like to be in such a situation. Once you have pictured yourself in his shoes, in his position, you would then begin to feel. The first few things that may come into your mind when you think about your brain being eaten, is pain and suffering. But do you think about the guilt? For those of you who eat monkey brains, do you feel the remorse? When you eat monkey brains and find it a delightful sensation, do you think about the same situation being reversed. The man is stuck, unable to fight to survive. Instead he is trapped there and left to die in a slow and painful manner. When the human has his brain eaten out, you feel sad. The picture 'hits' you and makes you feel for the man. So, since you feel pitiful for the man, why don't you feel pitiful for the monkeys? Both are in the same fate anyways. Also, there is a sense of sadness. Notice, in the picture, that the man in stuck in the table. So instead of dying in a heroic battle (for example) or in a war, he is helpless while his brain is slowly being eaten. Therefore, I conclude that the picture does indeed bring out one important message. Don't do something if you don't want it done to you.