Our forefathers created a masterpiece to help run the United States, but the government has not updated it in years. From fighting Great Britain in 1787 to choosing which president in 2016, the times are different. When they first created the Constitution, the forefathers were trying to create something to help create unity within the newfound country only considering white men. They were not expecting a universe with problems involving gay marriage, women getting equal pay, or even African Americans having the same amount of rights as the average white man. In the work “The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation,” the authors/ artists, Jonathon Hennessey and Aaron McConnell, depict two different compasses to show the audience that the times have changed, so maybe the Constitution needs some updating.

The authors chose the image of a compass in order to show how the times have changed, and people can go in whatever direction they chose. There is a new era with new technological advances causing people to have more accessibility to document information and updates in the world. The authors want to connect the audience with the ideas that maybe the Constitution worked in 1787, but maybe now, with all of the updates, it is time for change. In the end, the pictures show the varying differences between then and now which shows that the government might need to look at the Constitution and make some changes in order to have equal rights for all of the people who were not originally taken into consideration when the forefathers first wrote the document.