The Sneetches Analysis

The fictional stories “The Sneetches” and “The Butter Battle”, written by Dr. Seuss, demonstrate the struggles in society. In “The Sneetches”, a civilization had created somewhat of a hierarchy where those that have stars on their bellies were treated like royalty, and those without were left in the shadows.“The Butter Battle” focuses on a society that was pitted against each other because of the side of toast that they ate their butter on. Dr. Seuss argues that the illusion of power, evils of racism, and segregation lead to hatred and war. The illusion of power is shown in “The Sneetches” when the plain-bellied Sneetches believed that the star-bellied Sneetches were more worthy of happiness than they were, just because the star-bellied Sneetches thought it so. “We're the best kind of Sneetch on the beaches.” This was said by one of the star-bellied Sneetches, and the plain-bellied Sneetches went along with it, but there was no true way to know that one kind of Snitch was better …show more content…
“Could a Plain-Belly get in the game...? Not at all. You could only play if your bellies had stars.” These sentences can be compared to the past ideals of racism. White and colored people were forced to exist separately even though it’s just the color of skin, or in this book’s case: a star. From “The Butter Battle Book”, “…terribly horrible thing that Zooks do. In every Zook house and in every Zook town…” Dr. Seuss includes this in the story to show that one generalization can be assigned to an entire race of people. Such broad accusations led to a war between the Yooks and the Zooks, and it could have been prevented if each side took the time to respect eachother’s opinions and realized that just because they’re a Yook doesn’t mean they have to eat their toast butter side up. Dr. Seuss shows that the behavior of promoting racism only leads to violent conflict when it could be simply resolved by promoting