Caricature, dan wasserman

                                                 DESCRIPTION OF THE CARICATURE

This document is a cartoon.

More precisely a caricature drawn by Dan Wasserman, published by Tribune Content Agency in November 2015.

To begin with, I'll briefly describe the layout of the document.

It is composed of 2 personages and a sign. The setting is very simple.

The scene takes places in New York City where The Statue of Liberty is.

In the foreground, we can see an elephant writing on a sign, it's written “ give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses*

*terms may vary. see your republican governor for details”.

And in the background there is The Statue of Liberty with a worried air which looks the elephant and what he write.

Finally, in the top right hand, there are the name of the cartoonist, his website, the date of the caricature and where it was published.

In reality we understand that the elephant represents the American republican party and the sentence which he writes on the sign is a rewriting of a part of the poem writes by Emma Lazarus on pedestal of the Statue. 

In the poem, the sentence is “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore” and on the sign it's “ give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses*

*terms may vary. see your republican governor for details”

It illustrates the migration of the syrian refugees in the USA and the fact that

Charlie Baker ( a republican governor ) said that he opposes resettling refugees in his states ( the Massachusetts ) until he hears more information about the federal control process. 

To conclude, this caricature denounces this little solidarity behavior.

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