The Sneetches is one of Dr Seuss's most underrated books and for some inexplicable reason it is not widely known. The Sneetches is a superb tale of two groups of creatures, separated by class, differing only by a star on the belly or not. The star-belly Sneetches control all the best trappings of society whilst those without stars are social outcasts. Into this backdrop comes Sylvester McMonkey-McBean an entrepreneur with a message and high technology to take advantage of the ridiculous social divide that the Sneetches have made for themselves. Fortunately, despite being taken advantage of to the last dollar, the Sneetches are able to come together in unity. This story has obvious parallels with real life racisim, political divisions, class divides and one cannot fail to think that if everyone was forced to read The Sneetches the world would contain rather less injustice. Indeed, the story was used by the UN to foster racial tolerance in Bosnia.
The Sneetches by Dr Seuss
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