Dark

The characters in this cartoon that are shaded are the ones that are the victims of the Holocaust.  They are shaded to help show the dark nature of their situation.  The characters that are not shaded in seem to have more power, and more emphasis.  The dark shade makes the victime seem to almost disappear.   If the visuals did not accompany the words in the cartoon, the message, and the story would be lost in translation.  The entire story would be nothing more than a confusing mess of words.  The images truly emphasize the dark nature of the cartoon by seemingly eliminating the victims, and giving the non shaded characters a large amount of power.  The text accompanies the pictures by showing the difficult situation that the characters find themselves in.