TOW #5 - Hurricane Donald

In this political cartoon, Peter Schrank who goes by the name SCHRANK, establishes a viewpoint of the presidential candidate Donald Trump.  Peter Schrank is a political cartoonist from Switzerland, and has had many of his works appear in the UK’s Independent on Sunday newspaper, The New York Times Syndicate, and The Economist magazine.  Written during Hurricane Matthew, the political cartoon is geared towards an audience of people involved with and those voting in the 2016 presidential election, as he attempts to illustrate how Donald Trump will negatively affect America.  In order to prove this, he uses symbolism, which helps his tactic in appealing to pathos.  As seen in the cartoon, the hurricane is represented as Donald Trump because you can see his face hidden in the wind.  This hurricane is about to reach the White House, the Capitol Building, and then the Washington Monument.  This symbolism is used to show that if Donald Trump does get elected, his force will destroy the White House and other important landmarks in D.C. which is really quite equivalent to our government. This great symbolism helps to appeal to pathos for any people coming across this quite intriguing cartoon. By comparing Donald Trump to a massive hurricane, which was quite relevant to the time because Hurricane Matthew had made it’s path, it gets the readers to feel quite scared or even angry of what Donald Trump’s path might actually do.  This could then lead to people changing their minds about Trump or even possibly doing anything they can to stop him from getting elected.  This great symbolism helps to appeal to pathos for any people trying to do anything they can to stop him from getting elected.  Both appealing to pathos and using vivid symbolism helps Schrank to achieve his overall purpose of showing the negative effects Donald Trump could bring to office.  In my opinion, I believe that this cartoon is quite effective and very relevant to the time that we are in.  I fully agree with this author, and hopefully it can aid in swaying people’s opinions.  


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