Dr. Seuss (The Butter Battle Book)

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When I walked into our theology class on the first monday of school, I had no idea what to expect. I had some ideas of what this year’s course might be about, as I was thinking we might learn more about Church history in this year’s course or perhaps we would read many passages from the New Testament and study the Book of Revelation along with the other books at the end of the Bible. However, I certainly was not expecting to start off the course by reading a Dr. Seuss book (The Butter Battle Book). Once realizing that this year’s course was about morality and ethics, I was able to understand that Dr. Seuss was making a point on the cold war, and it could be interpreted as showing how pointless war is. To fight over anything, especially the

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Meaning of The Butter Battle Book Dr. Seuss’s Butter Battle Book is a very well known child’s story. But Dr. Seuss’s books aren’t just well known and popular. His books also show superior ability to use craft to suit his purposes. His books not only show his expertise in writing, but they also show his superior way to use literary devices such as rhyming, conflict and point of view. Dr. Seuss is able to use rhyming in a way that is fun to read and easy to understand and interpret. Dr. Seuss writes, “…

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Dr. Seuss, the author of The Butter Battle Book, uses author's craft in children’s books, and gives them a higher meaning. The Butter Battle Book is about how the Zooks and Yooks are at war because of which side that they butter their bread. They kept one-upping the other side. The author Dr.Seuss, who wrote The Butter Battle Book, was the author who best used writing craft to convey meaning because he made it almost comical by using a children’s book to explain the cold war. Dr. Seuss used effective…

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Cara Duggins Theology Period 1 April 17th, 2014 Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss This story relates to militarism because each side of the wall is trying to be better than each other. They don’t like each other because one side of the wall puts butter on the bottom of their bread, and the other puts butter on the top of their bread. Instead of accepting what each other does and just dropping it, they resort to violence. Each side of the wall feels that violence is the best and most effective way…

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live it up, live it up Ronnie's got a new gun” (The Escape Club. “Wild, Wild West.” 1988. Wild, Wild West.) Even children’s literature played a part in shaping people’s thoughts on the Cold War. The Butter Battle Book, written by Dr. Seuss and published in 1984, is a good example. The Butter Battle Book tells the story of a land where two hostile cultures, the Yooks and the Zooks, live on opposite sides of a…

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a conventional war that escalates to nuclear war.” (Citation, 4) This showed how one tension lead to a nuclear war, the same situation that could happen between the US and the Soviet Union. Authors like Dr. Seuss portrayed events in the cold through their wars. For example, the Butter Battle book illustrated the Arms Race (weapons race between the USSR and the US.) During the Time of the Cold War, the topic of racial inequality was much sparked. Black people had gotten their freedom from slavery…

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