Green Eggs And Ham Analysis

When thinking about “artifacts” from my culture that were important to me as a child. The first thing that came to my mind was not my favorite video game, or an instrument I played, in fact the it was a chalkboard. The reason why this popped into my head was because I learned english on it. As far back as I can remember; I would spent what it seemed like all day on this chalkboard practicing writing words in spanish then writing the english translation underneath. Everyday my mom would write a sentence from her english learning books and I would have to write out the translation before doing anything fun. One other artifact was a skateboard, now this was actually given from my elementary school. They had a program where they would give kids christmas presents and only …show more content…
Seuss this is one of the first books I can remember that actually taught me something valuable. After the teacher read it, she gave a few moments to think about what is the overall meaning of the text. This was the first time I can ever remember when I have been asked this. For a few moments I thought to myself it was just supposed to be a silly read, something for entertainment what could this time teach me. Time was up and she asked for the whole class response and everyone responded “ Green Eggs and Ham” are gross. The teacher laugh at first but she made us understand that it is important to not say you do not like anything before trying them. Because in the book Sam I am suggested countless of things to pair the Green Eggs and Ham with and it was a no every single time from the unnamed character. This was one of the most useful things I ever taken from a book and that was in my childhood. That deeper understanding of what I thought was just a clever combination of rhyming words. Proved to be one of the first powerful message that I needed carry in not only my academic career but also outside of the