Thursday 30 October 2014

Please answer the following questions about this political cartoon. 1.who is speaking from the window 2. What position does she likely hold...

, we request that you ask one question per post.  I will therefore answer #3, which is the most important question here.  The main point that this cartoon is trying to make is that the United States should be more involved in world affairs.


The cartoon is a lampoon of a young man who is being treated like a child by his grandmother.  He has never been outside of his yard, as shown by...

, we request that you ask one question per post.  I will therefore answer #3, which is the most important question here.  The main point that this cartoon is trying to make is that the United States should be more involved in world affairs.


The cartoon is a lampoon of a young man who is being treated like a child by his grandmother.  He has never been outside of his yard, as shown by the cobwebs over the gate in the fence.  He is clearly grown up in that he has the height and proportions of an adult, but his face looks very young and his clothing from the waist up is childish.  He is being told to stay in his yard rather than going out to the “world’s business highway.”


This shows us that the cartoonist thinks that America is being wrongly kept out of world affairs by the “grannies” in the Senate.  America is a grown country and needs to be a player in the business of the world.  However, its “granny” is keeping it childish so as to prevent it from being harmed.  The cartoonist is trying to tell the audience that it is time for the US to grow up, ignore the “grannies” in the Senate, and get involved in the world.

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