Analysis of Political cartoon

Content: A Person slamming a drum with the drum labeled wall street stock boom is going far ahead and faster down a path compared to the bandwagon. This bandwagon labeled national prosperity is going much slower and the person on it asks to wait for the rest of us

Context: Stocks in the US are having a boom in the roaring 20s as there is a lot of optimism about the future. While this is founded at the start from 1926 onwards national production isn’t increasing as much as people think slightly decreasing. On the other hand, investors blind with optimism keep on investing believing in a in quick profits and returns.

Labels: At the front there is a person running away labelled wall street stock boom behind them is national prosperity

Symbols: Speeding ahead is the wall street stock boom symbolizing how stocks are rising rapidly but without sense. As it is leaving the national prosperity in the dust, which symbolizes the real economic success of the nation that is not encapsulated by the stock boom. Symbolizing, how the stock market is based on nothing but optimism portrayed in the man’s face.

Getting ahead of the Band Wagon!: The title uses an exclamation portraying the importance of this lapse of judgment but also the emotions that are coursing through people when they are investing. The bandwagon in the title means the general population or the prosperity of the nation while the getting ahead part refers to the stocks prices going ahead of whats actually happening in the country. The title summarizes the point that the author is trying to make quite clearly that stock prices are going ahead of reality.

Tone: The tone is quite satirical as the man symbolizing the wall street stock boom is jumping around, while it is quite a serious matter as many people in this have their whole financial lives on the stock market. This can be seen from the many stars and exaggerated movements of the character, ridiculing and showing the baselessness of the stock markets boom. On the other hand, the man who is part of the national prosperity band wagon looks exasperated. In turn, reflecting the gravity of the matter at hand the entire economy of the world.

Point: Ultimately through a satirical yet at times consequential tone, the symbolism of the stock market and the actual economy and the use of the witty while also informational title, the author tries to warn the audience of the buffoonery of the exaggerated optimism in the stock market, having no claim in reflecting the national prosperity that it is leaving behind.

Content: The kid is going very high up from the spring broad with a. lot of enthuasism. However he is going over a creek that will not usher his safety when he lands. A farmer is looking on at the kid with a broken arm.

Context: At this point warnings are coming from financial experts that the US economy is not doing that well and that this sky high optimism should stop. This is in a time where many want to make some quick money off the booming stock market but there was overproduction and the market was slowing down.

Labels: The kid is being labelled as the stock market with the creek below it meaning the actual earning value. The farmer is saying Yeah, I tried that once myself.

Symbols: The creek symbolizes the actual earning value being so much lower than the kid the stock market showing how it is not that high as so many people think. The kid will also eventually fall down into the broken creek symbolizing how the stock market will crash. The farmer symbolizes the prospective farmer that took out a lot of loans dreaming of quick wealth but he already experienced the crash, so he is not willing to invest into the stock market.

Title: The title Its fine as long as you’re going up is reffering to the stock market which people think is the only predictor of the economy thinking that if it is going up everything else is fine and the problems of overproduction and company closings should not be focused upon.

Tone: The tone is quite tragic as we see the beat up farmer and the soon to be beat up stock market evoking a feeling of depression.

Point: The author is trying to convince the audience that the stock market is not going up as people believe it to be.