This picture is commenting on student loans and debt. The cost to attend colleges around the United States are increasing, even though parents are struggling to pay for their children's education. So students are forced to take out student loans. Their amount of money owed increases because of interest, while they are finding jobs after college. The student starts out with a backpack full of books and is increasing in size until after college where all the weight turns from books into debt.
This cartoon shows the bag increasing enormously from college to after college and the person getting a back-ache from all of the weight. That symbolizes the student struggling to get back on their feet because the bag on top of them, which is their student loans, is weighing them down. This is an effective cartoon because he exaggerates all of his symbols to express his opinion and point of view. The reader is given the allusion that the person can barely hold on much like the average student would be with tens of thousands of dollars in debt.
(The fonts are the same when editing it, but does not show it when viewing it. This goes for all four of my pieces.)
all good. maybe do more word choice.
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ReplyDeleteMake sure that your text is in all the same font and font size for a uniform look. Also I don't think you answer the question of "is this an effective cartoon and why". You did a great job at describing the symbols in the cartoon and what they really mean!
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ReplyDeleteI love the cartoon that you selected, and you did a great job identifying the point of view. Try to elaborate on how the cartoonist conveys his message. What techniques does he use? Allusions?
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