Essay On Dr. Seuss

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Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts. His first book was “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street”, under the name of Dr. Seuss in 1937. Dr. Seuss throughout his career published over 60 books. He was cartoonist and writer. Dr. Seuss most famous children’s books were “The Cat in the Hat” and “Green Eggs and Ham”. Dr. Seuss wrote his stories with a moral in mind, stating that "kids can see a moral coming a mile off". He said that "there's an inherent moral in any story", and he advertising that he was "subversive as hell". Dr. Seuss artistic vision appear as the successful work that attach every aspect of his mixed career, and his artwork became the program from which he provide 44 children’s books, more than 400 World War II political cartoons, hundreds …show more content…
The plain-bellied are dumbfounded and agree to go into Sylvester McMonkey Mcbean’s machine. When they come out, they have stars just like the star-bellied: “We're exactly like you; you can't tell us apart. We're all just the same now, you snooty old smarties” (Seuss). When the star-bellied see this, they realize that they are no longer unique and set apart from these new star-bellied; therefore, Sylvester McMonkey Mcbean offers the old star-bellied to have their stars taken off by his machine, so they would still be unique and anyone could tell them apart from the new star-bellied. The machine changed their physical appearance, but not their hearts, “The best kind of Sneetches are Sneetches without” (Seuss). Even without these trivial stars, they still have the same arrogant, degrading attitudes towards others. Both groups then resort to constantly changing their physical appearance, trying to be different, but soon, they began to blend in and nobody could tell which was

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