1. Who drew the cartoon?
Jimmy Margulies, The Record of Hackensack, NJ
2. List and describe the key objects in the cartoon and describe what each represents:Boy = Marines
Words = pee
Droplets at end = Taliban
3. What techniques or devices does the cartoonist use?
Symbolism
Caricature
Analogy
4. What issue or event does the cartoon deal with?
US Marines urinating on bodies of Taliban members
5. What is the cartoon's message?
The fact that the Marines urinated on those bodies is in return for "years of United States sacrifice in Afghanistan"
6. What is the cartoonist's point-of-view?
The soldiers were just doing this as a way of "blowing off some steam," per se. They have suffered in Afghanistan for so long and have seen horrendous things and they have all this built up hatred towards the Taliban that they thought this would be ok.
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