The Butter Battle Book Essay

In The Butter Battle Book, Seuss puts his satirical talents on full display. He transforms the cause of the senseless war into a trivial conflict over toast, putting a more comical twist on things. The battle is between two different races or cultures, known as the Yooks and the Zooks, who do not realize that they happen to be more alike than different, because they live on opposite sides of a long wall. The Yooks like to eat their bread with the butter-side up, while the Zooks like to eat their bread with the butter-side down. Both sides compete against each other to make bigger and better weapons until both sides invent a destructive bomb, known as the "Bitsy Big- Boy Boomeroo,” and if either side uses it, it will kill both sides. Much like The Lorax, there is no happy ending or resolution in this book. As the story comes to an end, the generals on both sides of the wall are poised to drop their bombs. It is hard for even some of the younger readers to miss Seuss's main point here.
Although Dr. Seuss's books were different from other children's books in the fact that they usually had more of a political drive behind them, what made them the most unique was the way in which the books were presented. Everything from the rhyming, to the characters, to the words, and to the pictures. His books were very entertaining
Seuss, but that is only because they never realized how much he really influenced America or maybe they never looked at the deeper meaning behind his books and thought he wrote just for children's entertainment. In actuality, the Dr. Seuss was able to shape the political views of a whole generation by using parables on injustices and making them more entertaining for children. Dr. Seuss’s unique writing technique helped inspire a whole generation of children while teaching them to read better with his repetitive, energizing, and innovative style of writing in his