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Description:
Not every cartoon is meant to entertain small children while their mother gets some "Mommy time." There are also political cartoons, which are meant to entertain adults while their children get some "Kid time."
Transcript
- 00:00
When you think of
- 00:14
cartoons you probably think of stuff like funny exciting adventurous [Bart and SpongeBob appear]
- 00:18
hilarious But did you know that cartoons khun be serious
- 00:21
too That's right These puppies air called political cartoons and
- 00:25
adults love them well not all adults Some adults love
Full Transcript
- 00:29
um summer still pretty into spongebob but that doesn't mean [Woman watching SpongeBob]
- 00:32
you can't get into them too especially if you learn
- 00:35
how to understand and analyze them Who knows You might
- 00:38
end up liking the more than spongebob so let's get
- 00:41
to analyzing Check out this official shmoop made and shmoop
- 00:44
themed political cartoon...... From now we'll admit that this political
- 00:54
cartoon is already more interesting to look at that most
- 00:57
So analyzing this one should be fun right We promise
- 01:00
you can keep watching spongebob once we're done analyzing So [People watching cartoons]
- 01:03
the first step is to begin with the visuals let's
- 01:05
list the people and objects we can see in this
- 01:08
case we see david Siminoff the founder shmoop he
- 01:12
also see some sort of machine with the shmoop logo
- 01:14
on it a bunch of books and some kids eating
- 01:17
apples from the machine got it good The next step
- 01:20
is to look for symbolism Symbolism is when an object
- 01:23
or symbol represents or stands for a larger idea cartoonist
- 01:27
use symbolism all the time to get their ideas across [Political cartoon image appears]
- 01:29
So what might be some symbolism here Well we can
- 01:32
see that the machine is turning those books in tow
- 01:35
apples and because the machine has a shmoop logo on
- 01:38
it maybe the machine is supposed to symbolize shmoop as
- 01:40
a whole once you've nail down some of those symbols
- 01:43
is time to take a close look at any captions
- 01:45
words phrases or dates present So what seems to be
- 01:48
most significant Ah good Places start would be the labels
- 01:51
on the books and the apples on the left The
- 01:53
books are all labeled things like flooring i'm confusing while
- 01:56
the apples are labeled with the word knowledge so it [Knowledge written on apple]
- 01:59
seems like the shmoop machine is turning boring and confusing
- 02:02
things into knowledge that kids can consume Now we're getting
- 02:05
somewhere so what does it all mean We're not sure
- 02:08
yet actually time to describe an analyse It seems like
- 02:12
the cartoon is showing how shmoop turns curriculum that can
- 02:15
sometimes be boring tedious and confusing and turns it into
- 02:18
delicious bits of knowledge and david symon off he represents [Person watching Shmoop]
- 02:21
the hardworking shmoop employees that help make that happen but
- 02:24
you know that just yet Now we have to ask
- 02:26
ourselves what seems to be the cartoonist opinion on the
- 02:29
issue in this case we can look at what david
- 02:31
is saying and see that they are it is clearly
- 02:33
likes which move is doing by implying every student should
- 02:36
get an apple and hey deposition makes sense considering shmoop
- 02:39
produced this cartoon but now you know how to analyze
- 02:42
political cartoons So is this cartoon really all that wrong
- 02:45
We said is it Really all that Oh you're watching
- 02:49
other cartoons That's Fine We'll just be over here munching on apples. [Man sits down at table with apple]
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