Satire
In this comic, the satirist is trying to persuade President Obama. The cartoon’s has the Obama quote “I’m confident there is a middle ground here on which to base a compromise” to depict how Obama thinks it’s possible to find a middle ground in Congress. This cartoon relates to our in-class discussion of the legislation creation process is, and how hard is to get bills passed when neither party wants to negotiate. It’s telling him to stand up against the Republican Party. The message of the cartoon is that Obama keeps thinking it’s possible to find a compromise between the two parties, but he’s scared to take any sort of risks against the Republican Party. The cartoonist’s ideology is probable a Democrat who is let down by how poorly Obama has done.
The cartoon uses the IRONY that Obama is supposed to be a powerful man that stands up to anything as the president of the country, but he is instead scared to make the Republican Party angry and continues to compromise. PARODY is also used, a composition that imitates the serious manner and characteristic features of a particular work, or the distinctive style of its maker, and applies the imitation to a lowly or comically inappropriate subject. In this case, the use of parody is more powerful in its influence on affairs of current importance—the conflict between the two parties, politics--than its original composition. We know the original text that is being ridiculed. Obama said “I’m confident there is a middle ground here on which to base a compromise”, but he is bullied by the giant elephant. Also, CARICATURE, a literary style focusing on one characteristic, quality, or feature of a person or group of people, exaggerating it to a humorous level, and EXAGGERATION are used(Obama’s skinniness is enlarged so that his weakness is shown vividly).
The persuasive appeal it uses is Pathos(Emotional). The Republicans are represented by a huge, reckless, elephant who is bullying the small and skinny Obama by pulling his
The cartoon uses the IRONY that Obama is supposed to be a powerful man that stands up to anything as the president of the country, but he is instead scared to make the Republican Party angry and continues to compromise. PARODY is also used, a composition that imitates the serious manner and characteristic features of a particular work, or the distinctive style of its maker, and applies the imitation to a lowly or comically inappropriate subject. In this case, the use of parody is more powerful in its influence on affairs of current importance—the conflict between the two parties, politics--than its original composition. We know the original text that is being ridiculed. Obama said “I’m confident there is a middle ground here on which to base a compromise”, but he is bullied by the giant elephant. Also, CARICATURE, a literary style focusing on one characteristic, quality, or feature of a person or group of people, exaggerating it to a humorous level, and EXAGGERATION are used(Obama’s skinniness is enlarged so that his weakness is shown vividly).
The persuasive appeal it uses is Pathos(Emotional). The Republicans are represented by a huge, reckless, elephant who is bullying the small and skinny Obama by pulling his