- What are the main visual elements?
A family having dinner at their house and talking
- What issue is this cartoon about?
Its about lazy, unsupportive parents who prefer to ask their kids about their day instead of using the computer to go on his blog :)
- What is the cartoonist’s opinion on this issue?
Parents this days hardly ever talk to their kids because now everybody communicate through technology. This cartoon shows that the kid prefers to let his parents go on his blog and read about his day instead of just telling them and getting it over with.
- What evidence in the cartoon supports your opinion on how the cartoonist feels?
The fact that the word TELL is underlined suggests that the cartoonist wanted to emphasize everything that i said above. Also, the look on the child's face shows us that he think his parents are right, which could mean that the cartoonist is actually the parents in the picture.
- Why is this cartoon ironic?
The child in the picture looks really young, kids in his age would sit and eat dinner with his family and talk about his day; yet technology is taking control of the young minds and eating our brains, and now even the young kids know how to blog and spend their day on the computer.
- How does this cartoon relate to our study of technology and the future?
In just a few years, technology would become so popular, that there would be no child above the age of three without at least two computers in their house. It would take complete control over our lives that we wouldn't even need to come out of our house and see people, we would just communicate through the computer. Then we'd be like the people in the movie Wallie
- What other techniques could the cartoonist have used to make this cartoon more persuasive?
Maybe add a bit more color to make the facial expressions clearer
