Exploring the Text

Access the text here.

  1. What is the narrative of this illustration? Identify the different characters who are involved. How is the landscape depicted? Which elements function as symbols? Start with where your eye is drawn and then move out into the surrounding fields as you analyze this complex image.

    Question

    ALMF/kS1zzW73MouRsoXk1h0lKY=
    Exploring the Text: - What is the narrative of this illustration? Identify the different characters who are involved. How is the landscape depicted? Which elements function as symbols? Start with where your eye is drawn and then move out into the surrounding fields as you analyze this complex image.
  2. What “amends” does this illustration suggest need to be made? How would this event make amends? Look up the definition of “amends” and consider multiple meanings.

    Question

    ALMF/kS1zzW73MouRsoXk1h0lKY=
    Exploring the Text: - What “amends” does this illustration suggest need to be made? How would this event make amends? Look up the definition of “amends” and consider multiple meanings.
  3. Are the specific contemporary issues that needed to be amended depicted in the illustration, or did the artist assume that the audience knew what they were? If you see them in the illustration, identify them.

    Question

    ALMF/kS1zzW73MouRsoXk1h0lKY=
    Exploring the Text: - Are the specific contemporary issues that needed to be amended depicted in the illustration, or did the artist assume that the audience knew what they were? If you see them in the illustration, identify them.
  4. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper was known for its patriotic stances on most issues. To what extent do you find this illustration patriotic? How does it “answer” the question that is its caption: “Does not SUCH a meeting making amends?”

    Question

    ALMF/kS1zzW73MouRsoXk1h0lKY=
    Exploring the Text: - Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper was known for its patriotic stances on most issues. To what extent do you find this illustration patriotic? How does it “answer” the question that is its caption: “Does not SUCH a meeting making amends?”