Hallöchen :)
Also ich habe eine Hausaufgabe aufbekommen und ich bekomme darauf ne Note . Leider ist es so , dass ich in Englisch die Grammatik nicht gut beherrsche und ich müsste mich durch die Hü`s und Hausaufgaben mich verbessern, damit ich eine gute Note bekomme im Zeugnis .
Ich wäree sehr sehr dankbar wenn ihr meine grammatikalischen Fehler verbessern könntet wenn ihr welche entdeckt beim Lesen.
In the cartoon, which is black-and-white drawing, you can see two men, which are standing to each other. The man on the left side is little and lean. His clothes are cracked. The other man on the right side appears strong and wealthy because of his buisness suit and bag. The cartoon includes a speech that is called Australian mateship and the use of the wordMate``. In addition there are two speechs bubbles. The little man asks to the big man: Exuse me mate. Could you spare a coupleof dollars for a cup of coffee.and the strong man answers: Sorry Mate.
The words in the cartoon underline the cartonnists message. The cartoonist wants to show to the viewer that the wordmate have not always the same meaning. You can say that there are two types of mateship. One of the type is that mates spend much time and tell their secrets etc. But in this cartoon the viewer gets the impression that the mens meet for the first time and they are notmates. The little man wants that the strong man helps him but he did not want and he excused himself in a friendly way. But you know appart of the clothes that he has enough money, so he could spend money .The cartoonist expresses thtat Australian peoples are friendly and polite to each other and for this reason they use the wordmate. But this situation does not agree thereal`mateship because real mates would always help themselves.In this cartoon is the strong man avaricious but he excuseshim politely.
I think the cartoon is easy to understand because if you know what mateship means in Australia, it is clear that in this case friendship does not have the same meaning. Therefore you find out that the word mate has several meanings for Australian peoples.
