Dr Suess The Sneetches

The Sneetches by Dr. Suess is a story that presents a lot of lessons to it’s audience. Of course however, there are some that are hidden deeper than others; and since we read most of these stories as children we don’t usually get the lesson at all. Most of the time we just see they book as having pretty colors and weird looking characters within the pages. The first time I heard this story was in 11th grade when my English teacher read the story to my class. He read it to go along with the book The Crucible by Arthur Miller since there is a great amount of discrimination and assumption portrayed in the story. The big lesson that stuck out to me from the story was that in life, race, weight, gender, or anything “different” about a person shouldn’t cause them to be exiled from a community or a group. This stuck with me because I have been discriminated against throughout my life on numerous occasions. In the book, The Sneetches the group that is exiled is the Plain-Belly Sneetches. This is like when you get into High School, everyone has been …show more content…
Seuss' lesson about discrimination can be used for adulthood situations as well as the childhood situations. For example, when someone walks into their first day of work ever somewhere; they tend to feel out of place and sometimes the coworkers separate the “New Hires” and blame mistakes made on them. I know this first hand, since at all of my jobs, I’ve had my fair share of new hire experience. For instance, for the first month I worked at T.J. Maxx everyone there had seemed to be targeting me; they seemed to be targeting me for everything that I made a mistake on. I would catch people saying things like, “It was that new hire.” Yet, after a while, they saw me as one of them. Just like when the Plain-Belly Sneetches and the Star-Belly Sneetches didn’t know who was who anymore and lived in harmony with each other; no longer did they pick on each other whether they were originally Star-Belly or Plain-Belly