Two Sides

So I decided that I would take a different turn here and analyze a different type of work. I would like to credit www.cartoonistgroup.com for the highly amusing cartoon that I chose. You can find it here.
The title of the cartoon is “That’s life” by Mike Twohy, and it is a cute little cartoon that at first glance seems to be about two animals. Right away you can see a cat and a mouse in a room of some sort. There is also a table and two chairs, in which the two figures are sitting. The door in the background reads backwards, “Editor”. The cat is holding what seem to be a few sheets of paper. The cat is wearing glasses, and he sits at a higher level than the mouse before him. The eyebrow that is visible seems wrinkled, and likewise, the visible corner of his mouth is turned downward in a frown. The mouse, on the other hand is small in comparison to the cat, and its mouth is slightly open. Its hands are lifted away from his lap, hovering in the air. At the bottom of the photo is the quote “ The whole story is told from the point of view of the cheese.”
I also noticed that because of the cat’s size, it is able to lean over the table, whereas the mouse cannot. From the positions that the two are in I drew the conclusion that the cat was in a more superior position. Here you have the perfect pair of opposites. The cat and mouse. And from the looks of it, the cat has won. He is the editor, or boss if you will, of a newspaper company. The mouse is a writer, and has just finished an article about cheese, as the quote says. The cat is displeased because of the point of view that the mouse has taken. I take this to mean that the mouse chose only one side of a two-sided story to report on. In the story of the cheese, I suppose we are missing the mouse, which is the villain, and the cheese, the victim to be eaten by the mouse.
Beneath the surface, this cartoon depicts any person choosing to ignore both sides of any story. The paper represents a biased opinion that can only benefit one party, because it only appeals to the type of people who would support the victim. For example, what if a writer wrote an article about a crime, and only told the victim’s side of the story. Of course at that moment the victim seems to be the most important topic of the discussion, and the suspect is loathed and in the wrong, but do you know what actions led to the person committing the crime in the first place? Like this mouse, many people refuse to acknowledge the other side of the story because they feel that because the person committed the crime and they deserve to pay, end of story. However, the reasons for that person committing the crime could be just as important as the state of the victim.