Peer Reviews

The other day I brought my rough draft for the Visual Rhetoric assignment to class. Our class split into pairs and then traded papers. I was paired with Forest Suggs. His paper was short, but it made some interesting points. The primary thing he talked about in his paper was the change of presidents and Obama's monumental task. He was able to talk about this effectively because of his ad. It was a political cartoon with Obama trying to pull an enormous train up a steep hill. The train symbolized the economy, and the hill was at a ninety degree angle. I looked at this ad for a while and gathered two opposing viewpoints. The first was that there is no way Obama can pull this train. The other was that the hill was going up and Obama was looking up. This made me think that the only way our economy and country can go is up.