Summary Of The Cartoon 'Culture Wars'

The title of this cartoon is “Culture Wars” with the captions “ The Struggle To Define America’ and “ Making sense of the battles over the family, art, education, law, and politics“. These words and color symbols are being used to describe the cartoon because the illustrator wants to convey his message through words and colors. In this cartoon, there are two people arm wrestling. One arm has the red and white stripes representing part of the American flag while the other hand is blue with white stars representing another part of the flag. Each side represents the differences of American culture in the United States. I think the artist is trying to show that there is still a battle going on between cultural beliefs and ideologies. In recent …show more content…
These words are being used to describe the cartoon because the illustrator wants to convey his message through labeling and words. In this cartoon, the red button is labeled “reset” to represent the control it has over Hillary Clinton. The donkey represent Clinton’s crew that helps her with her campaign and aids her as she runs for president. You can infer the donkey is on Clinton’s side, because he is trying to fix and help Clinton during her public speech, but it doesn’t appear very effective. By this, you can also infer that the cartoonist’s perspective is anti-Clinton for presidency. The reason is, because this cartoon portray Clinton as a person who does not know what she is talking about, also loses control, and plans to say everything before hand. She even has a script in front of her to read from. This is not a good character for a president since a president should be able to formulate a solution effectively and quickly. I think the artist is trying to say that if Clinton becomes president she will bring upon chaos and not order. The message of this cartoon basically satirizes Clinton’s character. This cartoon can relate to a current political event because Clinton is currently running as a presidential candidate and there are a lot of citizens that has a negative opinion toward Clinton. In general, satire has influence topics …show more content…
”. These words are being used to describe the cartoon because the illustrator wants to convey his message through words. In this cartoon, there is a kid painting these words on the wall. I think the artist is trying to say that these topics are among the most highly discussed points. The fact that these words are writing on the wall help show that these topics are everywhere; walls are everywhere. The message of this cartoon basically satirizes, our conflicts and a few topics that help bring culture war to existence. The perspective of this cartoon is clearly against negativity. In particular, it doesn 't take any political side, race or gender side. This political cartoon wants to evoke positivity and a bring together society and eliminate culture war. This cartoon can relate to a current political event because the topic “what does it mean to be a real American?” has been the question that is being blogging and posting the most.This cartoon also relates to our class discussion because we did a combine class discussion with the other class to discuss this