Political Cartoon Map
Part 1:
Select one image and write at least three observations to support each decoding category. Write your observations in complete sentences, using proper spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation.
Choice A: "Putting His Foot Down, 1899"
Public Domain
Choice B: Imperialism in China, 1890’s
Public Domain
Indicate Your Selection:
Choice A or Choice B: ___B_______
Action:
Five people (represents five nations) is cutting up a pie called Chine (China).
Germany, U.K., Russia and Japan already have their knives or hand on the pie, France has his eyes on it as well.
A stereotypical Qing official throws up his hands to try and stop them, but is powerless. Characters/Personas:
The woman on the left
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“Shooting an Elephant”
Comparison to Political Cartoon
Action:
The narrator shoots an elephant while it is peacefully eating grass.
The narrator decided to shoot the elephant because he realized he will lose face and be humiliated if he does not shoot it.
The elephant resisted.
After the elephant got shot, he still struggled to live, breathing dreadfully but powerless.
It took him half an hour to die. After his death, the natives had “stripped his body almost to the bones.”
Action:
Killing the elephant while it is peacefully eating grass symbolized the barbarity of colonialism as a whole. For instance, China was “peacefully eating grass” on its own, until the conquerors invade it and ripped the peace away.
After China got invaded, it still struggled to live. Just like the elephant, the Chinese man in the cartoon is frustrated and making “dreadful noise” hope to stop the conquerors. However, both of them were powerless.
The conquerors divided China into pieces and will use all of its resources just like how the natives stripped the elephant into the bones.
Characters/Personas:
The narrator, a British
The elephant
The natives
Characters/Personas:
China is the elephant. The five nations are the natives that want the elephant killed. The knives they are using represents their military, is also the narrator in the story.
Expressions/Body Language:
The natives pressured narrator to shoot the elephant.
The elephant
The elephant embodies money and how underprivileged the Burmese is. The elephant is acknowledge to be a cherished creature. Everyone is longing for the elephant, just like money. Power is a word that indicates the elephant. Being treasured, to the Burmese and even Orwell, they all want to catch the elephant. Strong and slightly dangerous at first, everyone wants to find him. After they find him, he starts to calm down and is more peaceful. Overall, the elephant incorporate the imperialism state. No one likes the elephant or the imperialism. With both the elephant and imperialism, Orwell is confused on what to do. Orwell doesn't want to shot the elephant or be working for the British, but he has to listen to what others say. When the elephant gets shoot it also shows the downfall of
While he was struggling about whether to shoot the elephant, a thought came up in his mind that if he did not take a shoot, he would be laughed by the Burmese. Therefore, the author mentioned “when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib.” Which reflects that the conqueror has to impress the natives and to meet the natives’ expectations in order to keep his rules. Conqueror is not in control, but the will of people governs his actions. In the story, the elephant was a victim of the imperialism and colonialism. Its death process was described in details. Metaphors like “The thick blood welled out of him like red-velvet” and “The tortures gasps continued as steadily as the ticking of a clock” reflected the evilness of imperialism. The more bitter the elephant suffered, the higher sin of imperialism, also serious contradiction the colonists
In this essay the author lives the conflict, where, pushed by the burmanist he has to kill an elephant that had run violent in lust throughout a village, if he doesn’t he will have to face a population of burmist looking at him as a fool.
One person in particular was especially flustered by this Chinese epidemic and sought to oppress the Chinese people.
On the other hand, in the short story “Shooting and Elephant” the political purpose is also presented through the system of imperialism and the impact that it had on human nature. The high significance of duty, authority and power are again presented as the main lust and greed of human beings toward committing unethical actions. As the author is the main police officer in the town he has to shoot an elephant that came by in a bizarre way in that city in order for the people of that town to believe that he is trustworthy and tough to protect the town from danger. “Finally I fired my two remaining shots into the spot where I thought his
A commentator named Iraqi, under the title, Soon, said, “Thousands of bearded men, who have not washed [their bodies] for decades, will flock to China because originally it was predominantly Turkistani. But the Han, who are a minority, usurped the rule and begun raping the Turkistanis’ wives and blowing up their markets and killing every Turkistani who cooperate with his government! Welcome to our world, which is beautiful by the way” (Al-Arabiya 2014: comment 17). In this cynical comment, Iraqi constructs a China, that is originally ‘Turkish’ and invaded by the ‘Hans.’ Despite the obvious fallacy of this wild imagination, he predicts a
“It will be a war between an elephant and a tiger. If the tiger stand still, the elephant will crush him. But the tiger will never stand still. It will leap upon the elephant’s back, ripping out huge chunks of flesh and then will disappear back again into the dark jungle and slowly the elephant will blead to death” (PeriscopeFilm, 1962).
Kingdoms rise and fall, and out of their ashes come new kingdoms. Over and over again, the pattern recurs throughout history. China’s history and culture were born of such patterns, and it all began 1.7 million years ago.1 Archaeologists from modern times found the remains of the early hominid species Homo erectus in Yunnan Province, which was called Peking man. Peking man could walk upright, create fire, and possessed the ability to make stone tools, but it wasn’t until 2183 BCE that the vestiges of China truly began to emerge. The Yellow River, the cradle of the Chinese civilization, flooded regularly, and King Shun appointed his minister Yu to rectify that problem. When Yu diverted the flood channels to the sea, he gained the epithet Yu
In fact, the late Qing Empire’s encounter with Western civilization was necessarily heralded by guns, warships, and other new instruments of Western military might. The narrative of China’s dynastic glory was replaced with a newer, less flattering image of China as the “sick man of Asia” (Holcombe 193). Fears of the encroaching imperial powers were only heightened after China lost in the 1865-60 Opium War, as were fears of increasing internal disorder, as evinced by the 1851-64 Taiping Rebellion (Bary 661; Rhoads 1-2). China would later suffer yet another humiliating defeat in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-5, but they first instituted a series of reforms in an attempt to curtail foreign dominance, particularly in the military sphere.
Elephants have seen incredible habitat loss due to human encroachment, now with about 20% of the world’s human population living in or near the present range of them (4). As a result of this the interactions between the two have become tense. Cases have been documented of them “crop raiding” (3) and in parts of Sumatra it can be the most significant source of park-people conflict. (3) As these crops can be a large part of local people’s livelihoods, ensuring as little wildlife ruins them as possible is essential. However a study conducted showed that elephants raided crops year round at a rate of 0.53 a day in their study area, and (3) such regular interactions resulted in 24 deaths within the study area over a 12 year period. With their loss of habitat comes a loss of food and resources, coupled with the fact that human settlements will have a regular supply of food, it only makes sense
I was lost in a swarm of hundreds of bodies that were surrounding the nearby paddy fields. Each one of their voices was shouting louder than the next over an event that had just occurred. I dragged my feet through the thick mud of the fields in order to get a better view of the situation. I was able to crawl under the gangly legs of several citizens in the fields when my eyes had locked on a man holding a massive rifle over his shoulders aiming towards an elephant. My body froze when I noticed that it was Gaja, the elephant who aided my family with the irrigation of crops when my mother could no longer. How I wished that I could have done something to stop the man from causing harm to such an innocent creature, but the man's mind was set he was going to shoot the elephant. The sound of the gun echoed after each shot was made, there was too many to count. Tears began to fall down my cheek as I witnessed the torture and prolonged murder of a tame elephant, I was anguished. What hurt more than his death was the remorse of the slaughterer when he had fled the scene as if he did not know the consequences of his actions, and it was sufferance.
The elephant herd was cosseting a young elephant in their midst and the adult elephants were on the periphery bristling with hostility toward a pride of lions nearby. Then the matriarch elephant approached the cosseted young elephant, that was now down on its knees, smelled it carefully for a considerable time and then authoritatively led the rest of the herd away from the young elephant. As the elephant herd progressed on its journey the watchful lions approached the young, deserted elephant, which surprisingly gave them a battle, and
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell has many purposes as a narrative nonfiction piece. On a literary standpoint, Orwell writes his personal experience as a warning to others about the danger of conforming to the social normality. Orwell, the son of a colonial administrator, served under the Indian Imperial Police in Bengal, India after education in England. As a product of the colonial system, Orwell was constantly taunted by the local villagers for his Euro-Indian heritage. The author openly recognizes that the empire is oppressive, yet he never finds the courage to counter the natives for their mistreatment. In fact, near the end, Orwell acts unethically only to please the Burmese people. With a historical lens, this personal writing sheds light on the tyranny under British rule. Orwell is a direct representation of empirical aggressors. He acts with force and deliverance to oppose anything that disrupts normality. In fact, Orwell describes going to great lengths to ensure perfection.
The Chinese believe that the Great Dragon ruled the Middle Kingdom of the world for nearly four thousand years. For most of this period China was a great trading nation. Then the dragon fell asleep for two centuries, while China collapsed under the effects of colonialism, until in 1978 Deng Xiao Ping woke the dragon up. And now the Chinese dragon is back, hungry to take its place as the economic and cultural superpower of the 21st century.
Even he feels quite sympathetic towards the tortured native people. At the same time he resents the ridicule he receives from the native people. In his opinion imperialism is the source of his misery. He confesses that he is young and ill-educated and bitterly hating this job. The narrator confronts a predicament when a local coolie is killed by a violent elephant and he is entrusted with the duty to handle the situation. He finds the corpse lying on his belly, with arms crucified and head sharply twisted with an expression of unendurable agony. Forced by the collective will of the local people he undertakes the mission to kill the elephant. While aiming to shoot it appeared to him that may be the creature is no longer dangerous and intends not to kill it. His instinct urged him to think it would be a crime to kill the seemingly pacified creature who preoccupied grandmotherly air. Despite his reluctance , he is impelled to kill it to escape the humiliation of being labelled as a fool .The excruciating agony and death of the elephant has been described in a detailed way. Unable to witness the last agonising moment of the elephant he retires with a heavy heart. The elephant becomes a victim of British