Assignment pg. 10-12

 

This cartoon portrays when Al Gore took a private jumbo jet to receive his Nobel Peace Prize. The satire in it is that he was receiving the award for his work with global warming, yet his private jet was a huge waste of jet fuel and caused huge amounts of emissions.

The speaker in this cartoon is the author. I was unable to find who the author is but I would assume that he was trying to portray Al Gore, his subject, as a hypocritical person.  I was able to find that the cartoon was about Gore because of the name of the plane “Gorestream”. I knew he was on his way to the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony because of the large medal on the wing and it was his own private jet because he is tho only person on the plane. Last of all I noticed the saying Think Green on the side of the plane, I believe this is to provide the humor in the comic. The audience is very broad but I believe it can apply to the
U.S. as a whole; it paints a picture of the kind of people we elect to represent us.

The ethos in this comic are not very clear. I was unable to asses the authors validity or his political views I do believe he is a fairly intelligent person because of the small attentions to detail that help make his cartoon appealing.
Logos on the other hand are very clear. They express the situation in almost exactness and give a picture to a widely common opinion. The pathos are represented in either humor or frustration. Humor in that its ridiculous how hypocritical Gore is and also frustrating in the sense that it can make a person angry that so much faith is put in the people representing out country yet they can be so unintelligent.

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