Some of the main visual elements on this picture are: a snake’s body separated into 8 pieces, the initials of some of the original 13 colonies, and in big bold letters, at the bottom of the page, words spell out, Join, or Die. I think the political issue this picture is representing, is the conquering of land, religion, etc, by means of various threats, some of them including death. The author of this picture was, from what we can tell, not happy about this situation. One example of this is the way he stated the words, Join, or die. If he was happy about the situation he would have said this in a more positive way. If the cartoonist wanted to make his point even stronger, I would give him one suggestion. Add some more derogatory aspects to the picture, such as adding flames around the initials of the colonies. But over all, I think the picture was well drawn, and made its point well.
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