Cartoon Analysis Essays Examples

It has become part of the modern culture to ask children what they want to be when they grow up. Others say they want to be police officers, doctors, mail carriers, or even bus drivers. Notably, very many kids say that they want to be astronauts when they grow. Many argue that this answer is so common because of the adventure it promises, and the intriguing nature of their work. While most kids end up doing very different things with their lives, others follow the direction of their childhood dreams.
The cartoon’s artist explores the children’s common dream of being an astronaut. The only difference is that the snail in the picture ultimately realizes his dream of being an astronaut. In the first picture, the snail has a very innocent face when he thinks about being an astronaut when he grows up. Of course, the writer intends to compare the snail with a human being. The picture that follows shows the traditional space shuttle that astronauts use to get to space. However, it is important to notice that the space shuttle has the flame of a candle where the space shuttles produce flames. The artist makes the space shuttle look like an overturned candle. Idealistically, people would say that the space shuttle illuminates the wonders that lie beyond this world. Pictures and accounts of astronauts give the whole world a picture of what lies in space. They also let us see what our world really looks like in outer space.
The fourth picture shows the snail saying how beautiful the world is. Recently, an astronaut from Canada created a rave in the media when he posted pictures from outer space on twitter. Astronaut Chris Hadfield amazed the whole world with his tweets showing pictures of parts of the world from space. Using this specific picture, the artist wanted to remind us how easy it has become to speak to the whole world even if you are a hundred miles away from earth’s surface. The next picture also further attempts to recreate the pictures that Chris Hadfield posted of the black sea, Syria, and Florida. All this pictures were very interesting as they gave the whole world an interesting perspective of how special the world looks with other places like Australia having very funny shapes among other things.
The sixth picture shows the snail saying that his small snail trail is one big leap for the snail kind. From the first time that a man visited outer space, outer space activities have tremendously increased. Activities in outer space have also helped human kind improve on the technology in ways that were not imaginable. The artist is also making this idea felt. It shows that one little step has changed the whole world, as we know it.
The next picture shows the snail astronaut erecting his flag wherever he landed. This can be compared to Neil Armstrong’s first time on the moon. This event was broadcasted in all television stations across the world. On the next picture, the artist shows that there might be another snail already in space welcoming the snail astronaut. The artist makes the snail astronaut look like he is amazed. This might be because he was not expecting anything else on the place that he landed.
The final picture reveals the identity of the creature that welcomed the snail astronaut from snail land. This strange snail, however, does not resemble the snail astronaut. He walks while the other snail crawls. Finally, the artist reveals the point of his cartoon. As there have been rumors about sign of life in other planet apart from ours, the artist makes a point to show that he believes that the rumors might actually be true. However, while the aliens in space might not have any problem with the visitors from earth, human beings do not really appreciate anything that does not resemble a normal human being. As a result, he believes that the government is not being very forthcoming with exactly what lies out there in the moon as well as other planets that man has been able to visit. He shows that he believes that there are other creatures in space but the government will never let us know.