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“How effectively does Raymond Briggs use the cartoon/children’s book genre to convey a serious message?”
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Non-fiction Writing Pippa Manby L5c "How effectively does Raymond Briggs use the cartoon/children's book genre to convey a serious message?" Both The Tin Pot Foreign General and the Iron Woman and When the Wind Blows use a number of different devices to convey their serious message. These strategies are used in such a way so that they fit in with the children's book genre and therefore the books are not simply dull moral messages. The characters in The Tin Pot Foreign General and the Iron Woman are, as the title suggests, not actually human beings. Their actions, similarly, show them incapable of human emotions. Through these large metal monsters Briggs caricatures not just Margaret Thatcher and General Galtieri, but politicians in general. They are displayed as uncaring people who do not deserve to occupy real human bodies. The authorities' lack of human compassion is also suggested in When the Wind Blows; "The Government"...
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