1. Overt Message- Oil and competition are very important to everyone, especially in the United States. I got that because the whole cartoon was talking about how great oil is and making it out to be the best thing in the universe.
2. Covert Message- Everyone needs oil to be able to function in society. When the martian came to America, he saw that their society was running very smoothly and found out that it was because of the oil. Before he discovered the oil, the martians were angry and did not seem happy with the way they were living. When they discovered oil, they became happy and started working together and improved their society.
3. This is propaganda because there was an underlying, not straight-forward message within the cartoon. In the cartoon, there were Glittering Generalities. They described what the oil did for America and that it was so great, which could mean different things to different people and maybe even make it seem better than it really is. They also used transfer to connect ideas of capitalism to oil and competition.
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