In this political cartoon, Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. is standing before the gates of Heaven. Standing before him is God who is obviously struggling with his computer as some kind of bug messed up his “book of life” and caused Jobs to die a little bit too early.
Frederick Deligne is an artist and editorial cartoonist of La Croix. His work is also present in several magazines, such as Infirmières Magazine, Panorama (the 'Vivre et Croire' section) and Autos-Infos.
This cartoon is response to the death of Jobs, who died October 5, 2011 seven years after being diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer. He is remembered for creating the iPhone, iMac and iPad: technology that affected the world.
God is using Windows 7 (Job’s main competitor) to manage the "book of life" however, Windows is not as stable as Job’s OSX. The purpose of this cartoon was to humorously blame the Job's premature demise on his competition's management of the "book of life".
The audience intended for this cartoon is the general public.
One rhetorical element is irony. It is ironic because the glitch with the computers up in heaven caused Jobs to die early, even though he had so much to do. Another rhetorical element is exaggeration. The cartoonist wanted to exaggerate the technology in heaven being extremely behind. Drawn is a very boxy computer connected to floppy disks, which were used to store data starting in the mid 1970s. Behind is the gate to heaven with a sign above saying “angel inside” in reference to an old Intel advertisement (“Intel inside”) for an processor.
The cartoonist did accomplish his purpose. Though various rhetorical elements like irony and exaggeration, it was obvious that he wanted to humorously blame Windows for the demise of Steve Jobs.
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