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CITATION:

Inge, M. Thomas.  “Peanuts and American Culture.”  Comics as Culture.  Jackson, MS:

          UP of Mississippi, 1990.  104-106.

ORIGINAL PASSAGE:

Just as Peanuts seems to have absorbed so much of the popular culture which preceded it, the comic strip has had a profound influence on the society and culture of its own time.  Peanuts affects and inspires our daily lives, and not simply because we can open our daily newspapers and find it there without fail (for over 14,000 days now without interruption—one of the few certainties in a world beset by unsettling changes).  Peanuts has become an integral part of the history of American culture through its influence in so many areas of our life and society.

SUMMARY:

According to M. Thomas Inge, the comic strip, Peanuts, has a great influence on our present-day culture (104).