Sandy Hook Shooting

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This picture is of Santa Clause making his way through Connecticut and crying when he saw that there would be children at Sandy Hook Elementary who wouldn’t be getting gifts this year.  This cartoon was created after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in the Sandy Hook village of Newport, Connecticut.  The author of this cartoon is known for creating caricatures, mostly of children.  The event hit him especially hard because he loves children and capturing their happiness through art.  The purpose was to redirect attention from gun control and from Adam Lanza towards the losses of the families in Sandy Hook.  The audience was anyone who has heard of the shooting and is thinking about the families who have lost children, nieces, nephews, siblings, and grandchildren.  I think it’s also for the people who are trying to take this tragedy and manipulate it to be about gun control laws or about who saw warning signs in Adam Lanza.  Instead of trying to push an agenda people might, for once, consider the emotional loss people are going through and the sadness they will deal with taking gifts back to the store for their dead children.  A tool the author used to be successful in achieving his message was the allusion to Santa Claus.  Santa is supposed to represent happiness and the kind of hope and belief only children can have so by showing him crying with the gifts scattered by the sleigh they show how innocence died with the twenty children in that Elementary school.