Dr Seuss

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iew on the arms race is blatantly expressed in The Butter Battle Book. Where two cultures called Yooks and Zooks, race to out do each other’s weapons. Finally they both create a bomb with the potential to destroy the entire land they all live in. Every civilian is underground in bunkers, all waiting for their chosen soldier to drop the bomb on the other. The emotion of this is captivated by the butter side up culture in this quote: “He screamed, ‘Here’s the end of that terrible town full of Zooks who eat bread with the butter side down.!’” (Seuss, 41). A shocking scene for any one to think about, a war where people will suffer and possibly die, because of bread. Seuss explains in a biography by Judith and Neil Morgan that his thoughts came from the Cold War at the time the book was written. He believed that the differences lying between the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R were as trivial as the bread sides that we butter (Morgan, 249-250). Showing how a variance so miniscule could mean such destruction to those who are proud enough to uphold their particular beliefs.

Twelve years prior to The Butter Battle Book was The Lorax. A story that to this day stands as a testament of how deforestation and environmental recklessness can and will destroy nature. It starts with an in...