April 20th assignment

The message of this cartoon is to combey how hard life is when you are home. When the quarantine started, people took the time to reflect and connect with other people in the house. However, this started changing when people had to start to work from home. People thought this situation was going to last a few days. Now, we have more than one month in quarantine and do not have a date yet for when we are going back to a “normal life”. Also, everyone right now is trying to adapt in different ways because each one has something different to do at home. For me, what is funny in this cartoon is the mother in the washing area doing her work. It’s funny how everyone is doing something or needs something from the mother but I am sure the mother does not have someone to go to. I feel like during this time of Covid-19, people think this would be a time to unite families in their home. However, in some homes this creates chaos. For example, in my house there is not a specific space to do homework or a quiet space. I feel the same that is happening to everyone else. Now, that everyone is home there is less space to concentrate. Imagine houses with more than two children, and the mother has to work from home. I like this genre because it’s easy to interpret and also find the funny meaning behind it. I feel cartoons are an effective way to make a political point because they reveal funny messages, sometimes in favor of the government and sometimes not. I feel people pay more attention to political cartoons showing what is really happening in the world, instead of reading what happens. I feel cartoons are more efficient than text because they can take you more rapidly to the context.