TOW #18- Visual Text

            From Kanye West's to President Obama's speech, student loan is something that affects everyone from students to parents. The rapidly increasing college tuitions are slowly killing the people's desire for education as students are choosing their careers based off of how much scholarship they receive. This political cartoon that i came across on social media, went viral as students with accounts such as twitter and facebook could deeply relate to it. The artist, Adam's use of juxtaposition and appeal to pathos not only portray the life of many students, but also helps to spread the their voices on media in hopes that it will be heard to the public.
            Looking at the political cartoon, it is evident that the student's hand, if not the boy itself is much smaller compared to the lender's hand that is shown on the right. This is to portray the small and helpless students and their small voices that fights for lowered tuition. Not only that, but the big, gripped hand looks aggressive and scary, almost drawing the emotion of fear from the viewers. In order to deeply appeal to pathos, the artist draws arched eyebrows, frowned face, and chains around the wrists to show the indescribable feeling that students in debts feel. Instead of holding a diploma, the person is holding a paper that says "debt" to show that colleges give you more debt than education itself.
            There are many reasons why this picture became popular on social media, and that is because the artist successfully drew the emotion of fear, sadness, and stress that students go through to receive college education. This was an opportunity for all students to let their voice to hopefully be reached to a person with a solution in their hand rather than a chain that tie them down.