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  • Essay / Commentary Writinh - 1522

    Text 3, a four-frame comic strip by Cathy Guisewite, published in 1986 with permission from UNIVERSAL UCLICK, discusses the challenges women face in relation to the society in which they live. The text aims to highlight gender discrimination and make its viewers recognize the role of society in the construction of masculine and feminine genders. The use of relevant imagery and emotional language revolves around the audience, purpose and theme, tone, stylistic devices, and structural conventions of the text. Such attributes combine to form another of Guisewite's influential and sensational comics. A comic strip often mixes serialized text with a sequence of drawings to display humor, sarcasm, or irony. Cathy's comic book illustrations make the text easy to understand and therefore everyone can enjoy it. As for the captions included in the scenario, they describe a social problem that affects society as a whole. We can then say that this comic book is aimed at the general public and a diverse audience in society. Parents would find the cartoon interesting as they usually face gender discrimination with their babies. The use of words like "boy", "girl" and "people" (images 1-4) in each image of the comic suggests that there is a lack of specificity and that the illustrator is seeking to retain the idea of ​​the text in general in order to make it relevant. The illustrator attempts to send a message to her audience by making the mother, the protagonist who is probably herself, want her baby to have “a chance” to meet “people free from sexual stereotypes” (image 1). The illustrator generalizes in this framework, because she states that not everyone is free from sexual stereotypes...... middle of paper ......y. For example, the illustrator begins the caption with words in bold, large letters, such as "GIRL!" IT’S A GIRL! » (image 3) to describe how the protagonist's emotions went from surprise to frustration. This normal form of conversation makes the text much less formal to the audience, as if it were an informal conversation taking place in a hospital. Added to this is the lack of statistics and numbers used in cartoons. In total, Cathy Guisewite uses the different stylistic devices and the multiple structural conventions of the text to prove that this text is characteristic of comics. The illustrator strives to create a humorous but critical tone for his target audience, the general public. The text therefore meets its objective because it highlights the theme of sexual discrimination and humorously criticizes this social misconception..