Dr. Seuss: The Butter Battle Book
The Butter Battle Book
The Butter Battle Book was a book made by Doctor Seuss January 12 1984. The book was about two different people.Those who ate bread butter side up and others butter side down. This would then spring into a war of who had the better defenses on their side. Dr.Seuss had three points that were found in this book and they were conflict, irony and setting; he used all three of these methods effectively in this book that seemed to be violent at it’s core with its conflict. Many don’t notice unless you look inside of the book deeper than just the words. Dr Seuss showed conflict by showing the two sides that they were practically the same. One small difference would take them to war. When the wall wasn’t so high the grandfather had a snick-berry switch that he guarded until someone shot it with a slingshot showing the better weaponry of the the Zooks and Nooks. This conflict would eventually continue until the weapons are strong enough to commit genocide There is no winner on either side not even really a war but it’s more of a emotional conflict because it makes you think on what all happened. Dr Seuss does a great job describing a setting in his book because it opens up to wasteland with no one on land except a grandfather and grandson but breaks back to the past …show more content…
Dr Seuss normally does his best to have a happy ending. However this ends leaving a pit of despair and questioning. The comparison to this book to a real world event was the Cold War between the Soviet Union and The U.S. The two superpowers kept building weapons beyond our knowledge and keeping up with each other. The final weapon that could destroy a race is the nuke in the real world. The irony knowing that both places could eliminate the other yet no one did and we don’t know if they ever will fire the nuke or drop the weapons. We’ll just have to wait until it happens to know the
The Butter Battle Book was a book made by Doctor Seuss January 12 1984. The book was about two different people.Those who ate bread butter side up and others butter side down. This would then spring into a war of who had the better defenses on their side. Dr.Seuss had three points that were found in this book and they were conflict, irony and setting; he used all three of these methods effectively in this book that seemed to be violent at it’s core with its conflict. Many don’t notice unless you look inside of the book deeper than just the words. Dr Seuss showed conflict by showing the two sides that they were practically the same. One small difference would take them to war. When the wall wasn’t so high the grandfather had a snick-berry switch that he guarded until someone shot it with a slingshot showing the better weaponry of the the Zooks and Nooks. This conflict would eventually continue until the weapons are strong enough to commit genocide There is no winner on either side not even really a war but it’s more of a emotional conflict because it makes you think on what all happened. Dr Seuss does a great job describing a setting in his book because it opens up to wasteland with no one on land except a grandfather and grandson but breaks back to the past …show more content…
Dr Seuss normally does his best to have a happy ending. However this ends leaving a pit of despair and questioning. The comparison to this book to a real world event was the Cold War between the Soviet Union and The U.S. The two superpowers kept building weapons beyond our knowledge and keeping up with each other. The final weapon that could destroy a race is the nuke in the real world. The irony knowing that both places could eliminate the other yet no one did and we don’t know if they ever will fire the nuke or drop the weapons. We’ll just have to wait until it happens to know the