Satire
Choose one of the following cartoons. Identify the number and explain what you think it is satirizing. Also, tell what satirical device(s) it uses:
(1)
(2)
(3)
April 4, 2007
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Choose one of the following cartoons. Identify the number and explain what you think it is satirizing. Also, tell what satirical device(s) it uses:
(1)
(2)
(3)
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Number 3 is satirizing the genecide in Darfur and the lack of action from the rest of the world. It demonstrates through indirect satire that the world is just waiting for the problem to fix itself. The cartoon points out that it will fix itself, but in a negative manner. The conflict in Darfur will fix itself because the genocide will be completed, not because the genocide was stopped. This is dramatic irony in that what “the world” says is meant in a different way then what occurs.
Hey Mrs. Caldwell,
#3. This cartoon uses the satirical devices travesty and sarcasim. The writer is taking the serious situation of darfur and taking it to a simple statement that no one is doing anything to help so therefore I the problem continues. I think this cartoon uses sarcasim when they say the problem will fix itself and no one is left under the words.
for number two they are using satire to show that people are trying to make peace in a place of complete destruction and that it is pretty much going to be a failure. so the vehicle promoting peace ends up controdicting itself by blowing up
2-this comic is satirizing the crazy situation with israel and all the countries attacking it. It is using irony to show that the people who are creating war with israel are asking them to work for peace
2, In this cartoon, We are telling Isrealis to stop fighting when all we do is fight. It has a military car that will detonate to spread the message. It uses, sarcasm, irony, mock heroic, and , mockery
The second cartoon depicts how it really is over there. The Iraquis people tell everyone they want peace, but take no initiative in the process. They get tired of people putting them down and calling them violent, but when people call them violent, they cut their heads off. Teh Iraquis people are extremely violent and know they are. The contradicting speakers in the cartoon represent sarcasm, irony, and mockery. Irony is the biggest satirical device shown in the cartoon.
Number one is satiring how so many of our public schools are awful. Because so many people are dumb, this means that much of our blue collar workers are poorly educated. I think that this is also saying that the teachers are not very smart. I came to this conclusion through the fact that the chalk board reads: two plus two equals class discussion.
In number two a truck is saying to give up the war but at the same time the truck is loaded down with explosives and is soon to detonate. The statement is very hippocritical. It is hippocritical because it is telling Isreal to quit fighting but on the other hand they are bombing someone.
number one is saying that the public schools are lacking enough money to produce young bright students so they are producing one’s with no skills which is benefiting big businesses because it allows them to have cheap labor and take the jobs no one wants to fill.
3)… This cartoon is clearly satirizing the inactiveness of so much of the world in regards to the current genocide in Darfur. Currently there is simply not enough being done to stop the killing of so many innocent people. The cartoon’s satirical devices include mockery and arguably irony.
#3.
This is satirizing how it seems NO ONE is doing anything about the terrible genocide situation in Darfur. Of course during a time of war we recognize such disasters because they benefit us in further ending the war sooner etc. When we have our OWN problems, the rest of the worlds whose problems we would otherwise be busting our tails to run for our selves, seem not to matter to us. This is an understatement. If we don’t do something for long enough, the problem will go away, and so will the lives of the people who lived it. Problems don’t disappear and we can’t run away from them. They won’t eventually die down or get easier to deal with. They are as any other element of life, effective until we die.