Jon and Garfield in "Garfield the Cat"

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In response to a writing assignment, the author of this paper selects two comic strip characters, Jon and Garfield from "Garfield the Cat", to analyze and then compare with ourselves in order to see how they are actually just reflections of our own political, economic, religious, and cultural situations.

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"Comparisons made between comic book characters and the self permits us to become a part of the mindset of the character, good or bad. Further, the transference of self permits us to associate with similar personalities as well as learn about our own personality. Without even giving much thought to the possibility of resembling a Jon or Garfield, the reader has, through situational identification, compared the self with reference to three important human behavioral dimensions; namely, how we perceive the self, how we would like others to perceive us, and how we think others perceive us (Cooley, 1902)."

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