In America some things left unsaid are usually less important to the public. Poor Discrimination was created by Joel Pett, an American Pulitzer prize winning editorial cartoonist who is the leading illustrator for the Lexington- Herald. This picture informs people that the poor are in fact discriminated against, not because of their race, but because of their social class. Using a reinvented 12-step program, which is people normally attend to solve detrimental problems. This cartoon was created to inform the viewer the discrimination is not only categorized by race in America. The viewer is able to effectively relate to the cartoon by recognizing the corporations and institutions that have an effect in their everyday life while still grazing
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The setting of the 12 step program is used as a type of confessional. The fact that the Grim Reaper is say “I, too..” in his comment bubble makes it known that the rest of the people within the group are making the same actions. In an actual AA 12 step program they make you introduce yourself to the group, in this case “Justice” was presenting himself, and then they make you state your problem. The problem at hand in this picture is that he too, “discriminates against the poor”. This relates to any audience because majority of the American population is most likely not filthy rich. These are corporations that we need and invest in almost everyday. The poor, just as much as the middle class and upper class, need these corporations just as much if not …show more content…
Throughout the image labeling was the major key in informing the viewer of the importance of each character throughout the picture. This made it easier to realize what the symbols were. In the image by labeling the all of the things each person was holding or had you could determine their position in the image.
At first glance this image may seem like a usual comic from the back of a newspaper but this cartoon captures what is happening in real time, just like a photo would, but with the strokes of a pen. Not everyone would want to read an extensively long essay on the discrimination of the poor but a picture says a thousand words, and in this case, so does a comic. Joel Pett really grasped the concept of short and sweet but bold with this
The setting of the 12 step program is used as a type of confessional. The fact that the Grim Reaper is say “I, too..” in his comment bubble makes it known that the rest of the people within the group are making the same actions. In an actual AA 12 step program they make you introduce yourself to the group, in this case “Justice” was presenting himself, and then they make you state your problem. The problem at hand in this picture is that he too, “discriminates against the poor”. This relates to any audience because majority of the American population is most likely not filthy rich. These are corporations that we need and invest in almost everyday. The poor, just as much as the middle class and upper class, need these corporations just as much if not …show more content…
Throughout the image labeling was the major key in informing the viewer of the importance of each character throughout the picture. This made it easier to realize what the symbols were. In the image by labeling the all of the things each person was holding or had you could determine their position in the image.
At first glance this image may seem like a usual comic from the back of a newspaper but this cartoon captures what is happening in real time, just like a photo would, but with the strokes of a pen. Not everyone would want to read an extensively long essay on the discrimination of the poor but a picture says a thousand words, and in this case, so does a comic. Joel Pett really grasped the concept of short and sweet but bold with this