Representations:
Recognizable employment ads from newspapers (in background).
Bright light from a lamp.
Abstractions:
Recognizable figures of people without detailed persons' features.
Line of people is composed of 2 duplications of the same people.
Light shining through darkness
Symbols:
Line of people.
Typeface of the word "unemployment" is bold and strong, signifying the high rate of unemployment.
Black color of people.
First off, the typeface of the word "unemployment" is bold and strong, signifying the high and dramatic rate of unemployment in the economy. The line of people is composed of 2 duplications of the same people, signifying that the same people are losing job after job and keep waiting and searching for new jobs. They are answering to employment opportunities (such as the ads in the background), waiting and attempting "multiple times" to find work. The people are colored black, symbolizing their dark sadness/depression from unemployment. The black figures are positioned in front of the bright ad background, appearing as silhouettes. There is a light shining through the shadows of the background, bringing the ads into brighter view. Perhaps there are shadows because these unemployed people stay up late at night looking for jobs in the newspaper, turning on lights to read the ads. The scale of of the ads are enormous compared to the people, symbolizing that unemployment is taking over these people's lives. It's a force they cannot avoid; they have no choice but to look for jobs. The word "unemployment" is written in bold, black capital letters and positioned towards the top of the image and directly above the figures; this bold appearance of this word labels the people, and with the white rectangle behind the letters, the word appears as a representational sticker label abstracted to symbolize a denotative label for the jobless figures.
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