REHUGO- Observation

Tayler Wills
Mr. Soeth
English 3 AP
February 23, 2011


REHUGO Analysis - Observation: Family
A. Cartoon attached.

B. This cartoon is humorous because it portrays modern day “old couples”. These people really do love each other, but when you spend too much time around any one person, let’s face it, you’re going to but heads. When we are in fights or arguments we say and do things that we don’t necessarily mean. By the old man putting a scaled down replica of his wife in his model tied to the train tracks, it says I love you but in this moment I want a train to run you over. Of course he would never wish that upon her, but she may have been nagging, and when I see this it reminds me of times when my parents or my grandparents not getting along.

C. The effectiveness of this visual is that it shows that people have different ways of venting. This man ties his wife to train tracks in his model world but probably continues to love her in real life. If you were to show a group of married men and women this cartoon they would probably laugh. The woman might ask, at least my mom would, ‘why are you laughing, do you want to tie me to train tracks?’ my dad would lie and say “of coarse not honey” in a very sarcastic way. But at the end of the day, they are still married, and their feelings for each other do not change.

D. Again the man is only doing this in a model. It is more than implied that he wants his wife tied to train tracks. I think it is hilarious. I showed my brother and my dad and they both laughed hard as well. No one would really do this, unless they wanted to go to jail for murder. This would not be considered a threat unless one looked at it that way. Nothing more is implied other that the fact that he, in his mind or in his model world, wants to tie his wife to train tracks.

E. Citation: "15 Family Life Cartoons | Family Life | Reader's Digest | Print Version." Funny Jokes, Clean Jokes and Cartoons| Laughs! | Reader's Digest. 2011. Web. 24 Feb. 2011. .