Purchase of Alaska #2

The issue of this cartoon is the Purchase of Alaska. At the beginning Alaska was not a very favored thing because it was just a big block of ice. But they soon found out that it had tons of natural resources. This cartoonist also does not like the purchase. He says that all Alaska is, is a land of polar bears, seals, and icebergs. Also that Russia just gave it to us because they did not want it any more. Other people might argue that we did not buy Alaska with just two toy boats. We had paid a lot of money for the land. Another thing people might argue for is that Russia was only selling the land because they did not want Great Britain to get it. This cartoonist had some techniques. One of them is the labeling at the bottom of the cartoon. The labeling is a Russian man saying that we have this big wasted place, do you want it? To a “little boy”. There is also exaggeration in the cartoon also. The Russian man is as tall as the iceberg in the background; symbolizing the power. There is a little symbolizing but not much. There is some kind of bird on top of the Russian man’s hat. That symbol probably symbolizes Russia. This does support my opinion with imperialism because it has a negative effect on it. Alaska turned out very important to America.

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