Feedback January 22, 2005

What are the main visual elements?
• Snake all chopped up
• Letters
• The words Join or Die

What issue is this political cartoon about?
The issue of the post is that America is being all chopped up into 13 colonies, so the snake is being all shared out between the 13 places, meaning that, america is being all chopped up to share between the 13 colonies.

What is the cartoonist’s opinion on this issue?
The cartoonist doesn’t like the 13 colonies because he compares it to a snake

What evidence in the cartoon supports your opinion on how the cartoonist feels?
Because he compares the 13 colonies to a snake, all chopped up. And because the cartoon says join or die, join the 13 colonies or someones going to kill

What other techniques could the cartoonist have used to make this cartoon more persuasive?
Maybe he could have used a scarier animal other than a snake, because it not very scary.