This amazing student work by Ezekial C. has "[student words -- edited for clarity] A newspaper on fire -- meaning even though while you are still reading, things are going on around you, and what you are reading about still is going. Most times, after you read something, it just burns away in your mind -- just to be forgotten. His eyes are also "whited out" because not everything you can read is true and it's almost like the media is putting a film over your eyes."