This
political cartoon depicts Dumbo, the beloved childhood elephant,
stretching out his trunk towards his mom and saying, "Good news
Mom...". Next to him is a discarded newspaper with the headline
"Ringling Brothers Eliminating Elephant Acts". I am very
happy with this development personally because elephants have to
endure terrible things under circus management, so if the biggest
circus people are setting them free, maybe other people with follow
suit and do the same. Elephants are amazing and I love them and there
are barely any left, so they must be saved.
There
is a lot of rhetoric used in this picture. The first is the usage of
mute colors, brown, gray, blue, to show the bleak environment in
which the elephants are in currently. The brightest thing in the
picture is the newspaper, because the artist, Steven Breen, is trying
to draw your eye towards it. Dumbo's ear kind of looks like a strip
of bacon, but that's okay because it's just an art style. Another
thing your eye is drawn to is the lock of the mother of Dumbo's cart.
It represents the cruelty that goes on behind the scenes, because not
all of Dumbo's mother can be seen. Something that was interesting
though was the comments, where one person was doubtful of the fate of
the elephants, saying they would just be killed once the Ringling
Brothers were done with them. Commenters showed him up though, saying
how the elephants will be sent to a sanctuary in Florida instead.
They even provided a link, showing how helpful people on the internet
can really be.
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