World War Poster Analysis

This poster’s targets are any age of all American citizens. These targets can divided in three categories. First one is young women, who were convinced that they play the important roles for the success of the war by many propagandas (Cornell, 28). The woman who was in this poster wore clothes like Rosie the Riveter, which is symbol of going help out war. During WWII, women feel responsibility through many posters, not only for the aspect of working, but also for the aspect of funds for war. Second target is young men. Usually, young men went to the war fields, however, he is in this poster and worked in the factory. I think that this young men couldn’t go to the war fields because of unsufficient physical conditions, or just they are rich people. Therefore, this …show more content…
Old men who already retired their jobs were also targets of this poster. Through analyzing these targets, I can see that the government really wanted more citizens who rendered the WWII a service.
There are many hidden meaning behind this simple poster. I’ll examine the rhetoric of this poster. This poster had the two phrases, “The Sky’s the Limit!” and “Keep Buying War Bonds,” some airplanes, three people, and the bomb dropping on the Japanese flag. The phrase of “The Sky’s the Limit!” is connected with airplanes because airplanes fly in the sky. This phrase has two meanings. First possible meaning is that there is no limit of an investment in the government as war expenditure, so keep investing. The government gathered money through War Bonds. Citizens, especially women and children, bought them for showing