Racism In The Story The Sneetches

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the story The Sneetches, told by Dr. Suess is about two types of creatures called sneetches. One group of the sneetches have star-bellies and the other group is the plain-bellied sneetches. Dr. Suess wrote this demostrating racism through the two characters because they are seperated by whether they have a star on their stomach or not. The Star-Bellied sneetches believed they were better than the plain-bellied sneetches, The plain-bellied sneetches began to become depressed. They remain depressed until Sylvester Mcmonkey Mcbean comes along with his "star on, star off" machine and begins giving the plain-bellied sneetches stars. when the star-bellied sneetches began to realize that they now had stars, they began to have theirs removed

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