16 Jan compose a two- or three-paragraph response in which you analyze the political cartoon below.
Order Instructions
compose a two- or three-paragraph response in which you analyze the political cartoon below.
Prompt
In two or three paragraphs, answer the following questions as you analyze the cartoon:
• What scene is depicted? Identify the situation.
• Identify each of the figures in the cartoon. Are they current politicians, figures from history or literature, the “person in the street,” or symbolic representations?
• Who speaks the lines in the cartoon?
• What is the cartoon’s general subject? What is the point of the cartoon, the claim of the cartoonist?
Peer Responses
By the end of the week, comment on at least two of your classmates’ submissions. Your replies to classmates should extend their analysis and draw comparisons or contrasts with your own analysis of the image.
© 2012 Jim Morin/Morintoons Syndicate. Reprinted with permission.
2012 Jim Morin/Morintoons Syndicate. Reprinted with permission.
Source: D. Seyler in Read, Reason, and Write
