Political Cartoons
Cartoon #1
In this cartoon it displays children making the very popular brand of sports shoes Nike. While these children, who are already too young to be making shoes in the first place, are working a older man is making them work in horrible conditions by threatening to beat them. The man is holding the Nike logo as if he would hit the children with it, and is screaming the famous Nike motto at them, obviously using differently then intended. The children in this cartoon look scared and tired. It's obvious they are working in conditions that would not even be "okay" for an adult. They are scared of being beaten by their supervisor, on top of already waking up at early hours and working until late hours maybe seven days a week. Their supervisor is too hard on them and lets them do work that could risk their life. |
Cartoon #2
In this cartoon you will see two pictures. One is in 1924 displaying a factory worker taking children and literally eating them. The eating part is a metaphor for what is really happening. The factory worker is forcing the children to not only work in hours that are too long, but in conditions that are risking lives. In the second picture you see Newt Gingrich repeating what the factory worker was doing in 1924. He believe children in schools should be working. Gingrich has some good intentions by wanting children to respect the schools they go to, and that they should clean up after themselves, but they should not be forced to work as there own school janitors. This is bringing child laboring to a whole new level. Gingrich is saying that child labor is fine and should continue to happen across the world. It;s the adults putting these children into conditions that are taking their childhood away from them. |
Comparison of Political Cartoons:
The cartoons above have the same message. The adults, the supervisors of these children are hurting them in physical and emotional ways. Physical as the Cartoon #1 the supervisor is threatening to hit the children. They are emotionally hurting the children by taking their childhood innocence away and making them do something with conditions no one should ever have to do. As you can see in the second cartoon, the child laboring has never stopped, and it is the twenty-first century. This needs to stop now. Children should not be forced to make shoes or let their childhoods be ripped from their fingers.