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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Political Cartoons


Questions:
What are the main visual elements?
What issue is this political cartoon about?
What is the cartoonist’s opinion on this issue?
What evidence in the cartoon leads you to believe that the author feels this way?
What other techniques could the cartoonist have used to make this cartoon more persuasive?
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In the picture, there is one big man, small skinny man, and money. When I looked carefully, the big man is holding the skinny man tightly. The skinny man is the labor and when on the big man's chest, it says 'CAPITALISM'. Plus, the big man's foot is on the money. On the money bag, it says 'PROFITS FROM A CHILD LABOR'. I can see that the big man is trying to take the money away from the skinny labor. If you look at the picture closely, the big man is shaking the skinny man so that every money he earned comes out from the skinny man's body. In my opinion, on the money bag it says 'A CHILD LABOR,' so, the skinny man is the child and earned money by working. However, the big man is taking the money away from the child. (That's mean...) The author is trying to show us that the big man is taking money away from the child (the skinny man). Maybe the author can make that small things coming from the skinny man clearly that it is money, so people can see notice right away.

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