Dr. Seuss The Butter Battle

In The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss, the Cold War is defined by having a childish theme to understand the stupidity of a real-life problem. Within the book, Dr. Seuss gave an idea of which side of the bread to be buttered, the top side of the bread or the bottom side of the bread, creating a dramatic controversy. The major problem of the bread being buttered created the threat of nuclear war, which imitated the Cold War. Dr. Seuss tops many other short satires, with his major use of exaggeration, allusion, and symbolism.
Dr. Seuss emphasized symbolism well throughout the story. Seuss writes, “In those days of course, the Wall wasn’t so high and I could look any Zook square in the eye. If he dared to come close I could give him a twitch with my tough-tufted prickle Snick-Berry Switch.” The wall was …show more content…
Seuss exaggerated the plot of the story. Dr. Seuss writes, “It’s high time that you knew of the terribly horrible thing that Zooks do. In every Zook house and every Zook town every Zook eats his bread with the butter side down!” This explained how unreasonable and how biased people can be over the smallest and dumbest things. It’s a huge exaggeration with what side of the bread can or cannot be buttered. Dr. Seuss claimed, “And they carefully trained a real smart dog named Daniel to serve as our country’s first gun-toting spaniel.” Although dogs cannot shoot, he added a short-funny twist to the plot to be original. In the text, Seuss exaggerated the line, “I’m unhappy to say, he came back the next day in a spiffy new suit with a big new machine, and he snarled as he said, looking frightfully mean, ‘You may fling those hard rocks with your Triple-Sling Jigger. But I, also, now have my hand on the trigger!’” This exaggeration was forcing both nations to come out with a newer, better project daily. Furthermore, Dr. Seuss wrote an exaggerated paper showing how powerful a little twist can represent a bigger