Example Of A Political Cartoon

In the September 24, 2015, political cartoon from the Town Hall, Steve Kelley illustrates Barack Obama and Pope Francis standing next to each other in two different scenarios resembling what Obama thinks of the Pope's beliefs. This political cartoon has two different parts to it, on the top half of the cartoon we see President Barack Obama on the left. President Obama is wearing a suit and tie and has relatively big ears for the size of his head. He has some what of a smile/grin on his face he looks relatively happy and has his hand up with a big thumbs up. On the right we see Pope Francis who is wearing his Pope apparel in all white of course and, he has a white piece of paper on his right hand and it says in all capital letters with big font “CLIMATE CHANGE”. On his side it says “We must protect the planet for future generations...” it seems like Pope Francis is saying this. On the bottom half of the …show more content…
The event that inspired this cartoon was Pope Francis recent visit to the white house and his speech on a few different topics, two of them being Abortion and climate change. The artist was trying to show the reader Obama's feelings, towards the topics Pope Francis was mentioning during his speech. The artist emphasizes the font on the papers that the pope is holding, to make it clear that Obama either agrees or disagrees to what the pope is talking about. This cartoon is a little persuasive, because it’s depicting that due to democrats beliefs on supporting abortion we will not have future generations. Therefore, Mr. Kelley might be trying to persuade that it would be pointless to worry about the climate if we don’t even worry about the termination of human pregnancy.