Snake Feedback

What are the main visual elements?

--- One of the main visual elements is the snake cut into pieces. And then there are the abbreviations for eight of the thirteen colonies on each piece of the snake.And then under the snake is the phrase “Join or Die.”

What issue is the political cartoon about?

--- The issue is that the political cartoon is about is that if the colonies don’t join to whatever the government wants, then they get exterminated.

What is the cartoonist’s opinion on this issue?

---I think that the cartoonist feels that this issue was a very strong issue and that it was negative. I say this because the snake is cut up and it has the initials of eight colonies on it.

What evidence in the cartoon supports your opinion on how the cartoonist feels?

--- Like I stated previously, the snake is cut up and it has the initials of eight colonies on the cut up pieces. And I’m thinking that the initials that are on the snake are the ones that didn’t want to join and they were executed.

What other techniques could the cartoonist have used to make the drawing more persuasive?

--- The cartoonist could have made the “join” part lowercase and then have the DIE all uppercase, so there’s more emphasis on DIE. I would have put bright colors on this drawing because it would catch somebody’s eye and you could put emphasis on parts that you wanted emphasis.