Locked Door On The Door Analysis

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It is a black-and-white cartoon. It shows one man and a mouse at the outside of the door; this door has been locked and has only a little hole on it. The image of this man shows that he is very annoyed and grave, and he really wants to open this locked door. We can only see the side face of this man and he looks mad. He wears a suit and holds his hand in a pocket, so we can feel that he is a powerful man. Moreover, the image of this mouse is drama, so maybe the tone of this cartoon is ironic. The focus point is this locked door. There are various chains and locks on that door, and it seems impossible for a human to walk through. The text in this cartoon is very important because it helps the audience to understand the main meaning of this carton. The text on the door is “U.S protectionism”, and it indicates that the U.S. trade protectionism is just like this door to protect the U.S. business and to limit the imported goods from other countries. The words “How’s going?” proves that this man wants to open the U.S. market ain order to import goods to U.S. So the text in this image helps people to illustrate the specific visual meaning. The author claimed, that the U.S. trade protectionism is over-used, so it influences the normal international trade. Just like the hole on …show more content…

The price of these governments “protectionism games” is very high to all the citizens. The collapse of a global market can mean the beginning of a long global stagnation, which will damage the economic and scientific progress in general. Finally, it is necessary to find out all the opportunities and dangers in all possible solutions of that problem. I am concerned, that doing a better research will lead to understating of all the risk of modern trade protectionism policy. In fact, these researches should lead to a peaceful scenario of solving this

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