TN+Editorial+Cartoon

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Americans are becoming fatter every day because we are addicted to high fructose corn syrup.



The event or issue that inspired this cartoon is American becoming obese. They are not any real people, but the people are portraying Iraq's or people from the other side of the world. The cartoonist used __irony__ because you see the newspaper saying U.S. obesity epidemic. __Symbolism__ because the cola is representing soda. Obese people drink tons of soda. Also high fructose corn syrup is in all of the things we eat that make us fat and its saying how that one thing is making us obese. __Exaggeration__ because it wont kill all of America, just those who choose to eat that kind of stuff and who don’t control their food habits. The cartoonists opinion is that America is become obese or overweight. I don’t think we are becoming obese, but i know we are a country who is known for pizza and fires and cheeseburgers. All if which make you fat. So we are known as being an overweight country.
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The subject of the cartoon is the U.S. being obese. The verb is killing the American people. The object is cola. **Step 3. My Cartoon.** __Step 1__ The event that inspired my cartoon: how the gas prices are rising each and every day. Real people? Who's portrayed?: No real people but the people are portraying a typical American family. Which of the fallowing did I use (symbolism, exaggeration, labeling, analogy, irony, juxtaposition): Exaggeration (gas prices), symbolism (horse and buggy, how they got to places in the past) Cartoonist’s opinion about topic portrayed: Gas prices are getting so high, soon we will have to like resort back to horse and buggys. Agree or disagree with position: I think we are getting tired with the prices rising, but I think we will just have to deal with it.

__Step 2__ Subject: Gas prices Verb: The rising of prices Objects: The horse, People

One sentence conveying the cartoon's theme: The gas prices today are unreasonable, we should just resort to how they did it in the past because it worked for them.

Political cartoons are so popular because they are suitable for all age groups. Most cartoons over exaggerate things so most people laugh about that. They attract many people because they funny and are usually are about things happening now. Cartoons contribute alot to public debates, such as, they may make fun one of the candidates so that might go against the candidate and might hurt them. They might use the cartoon against them or take it too far. Since cartoonists exaggerate, body parts or actions or their word choice, they aren't really THAT stupid or a certain body part isn't really that small or big. The drawings are not drawn to scale and some people get offended by the way drew them. Some subjects are too sensitive to make cartoon Such as 9-11. That should never be made fun of or be laughed at. Also death is not funny; it’s sad and serious so you shouldn't put that into a cartoon either.
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