Political Cartoon 3

•            This cartoon does not have a caption or a title, but in the picture it does say “Tsunami” so I will just depict that as the title.  The definition of Tsunami is an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.  The word Tsunami is an appropriate title for this cartoon because of the actual tsunami that hit Japan on Thursday, but tsunami can figuratively explain the uproar of protestors in some of the African countries.  
•             Objects represented in this cartoon are the world divided into 2 sections; the Middle East and the Far East, and two tsunami waves made of people.  People represented in this cartoon are people from the Middle East (Libya, Egypt, Sudan, etc.) and people from the Far East (Japan).  The artist means that these two parts of the world are currently suffering from disorder. 
•             The Far East (Japan) is currently suffering from the earthquake/tsunami that just hit there, while the Middle East (Libya, Egypt, Sudan, etc.)  is suffering from a giant wave of violent protest.    
•             The message of the cartoon is to show that the Middle and Far East are suffering from some natural disasters.  Even though protests are not natural disasters the frequency of protest breaking out currently seems to be an innate event.  I don’t think this cartoon represents a particular ideology.       
•             This cartoon relates to the natural disasters that recently occurred in Japan and the ongoing protest occurring most recently in Libya.  In class on Friday we talked about the devastation in Japan and in past weeks we talked about the turmoil in Libya and other Middle East countries.    
•             The irony in this cartoon is that the cartoonist is referring to the human-based disorder in the Middle East as the same as the natural unrest in the Far East. 
•             I found this cartoon on Daryl Cagle Political Cartoon Index, and it was posted March 12, 2011.  http://www.cagle.com/news/JapanEarthquake/3.asp