Sarah Hanna
Mr. O’Connor
AP US History
17.4 White Man’s Burden
1.
How do the lines you chose represent this political cartoon?
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The first four lines of the poem represent the first political cartoon. “Take up the
White Man’s burden – send forth the best ye breed- Go bind your sons to exile,
To serve your captives’ need.” In Cartoon 1 titled “School Begins,” Uncle Sam is
depicted teaching the new children in the class. The new children are the
countries which the Americans believe that they have to impose their culture in,
like Cuba and Puerto Rico. The reason why these lines represent the cartoon is
because of the fact that the first two words of these lines are, “take up” the
speaker of the poem is bossing the countries around similar to a teacher, like
depicted in the picture. In school often students have a series of different
burdens, whether it is doing all their homework or carrying around 5 textbooks
and 5 notebooks. They face many different burdens. Similarly, the poem states
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