Sneetches

Another big role model for me when i was young was Dr Seuss, my Dad read me stories by Dr Seuss almost every night, the morals from these stories have defiantly stuck with me.I must put something in about the Sneetches and Dr Seuss


The moral of this story by Dr.Seuss is it dosn't matter who you are we are all equal. This story is a story about a group of creatures called sneetches that have problems with equality. The story starts out by highlighting the fact that the sneetches with stars on their bellies are the ones who believe they are the best. You see a mum/dad sneetch telling their kids not to play with people who don't have them on theirs. This is very moving as it makes you think of racism.It also shows how kids will almost always listen to their parents at a very young age. The story then continues,highlighting the fact that the sneetches without stars on their bellies are shunned out of every occasion and are made to feel inferior to the sneetches with stars on their bellies. This reminds me of the school playground, for example if you look different as a kid to other kids at school because you have a deformity or if your a minority you are seen as a lesser being and made to feel bad about yourself. The story then changes as a stranger approaches the beach with a solution to help the sneetches without stars on their bellies feel accepted. The stranger has a contraption that modifies the sneetches with out stars by putting stars on their bellies for financial gain. This reminds me of the media and how they make money by making people think they have to change the way they look by changing their appearances just to fit in, for example the way the media makes you think that if you do not look a certain way you are not as good as others.The media does this by choosing the people that look a certain way or by photoshopping the hell out of people to look a certain way ( the ideological look of beauty ) for girls its normally blonde hair and thin and for guys its tall and muscly. This makes kids believe that they are not good enough if they don't look like this. This causes kids to act a certain way,bully other kids,change their appearances and even in some cases suicide,all because kids dont feel like they fit in. Getting back to the story, The sneetches that had the stars on their bellies at first find out that the sneetches without stars on their bellies have them on theirs,they are not happy about this so they have a meeting with the stranger. The stranger tells them not to worry as he has a contraption that can change their appearances so they can tell who is who again.They all are very excited and they all rush to the new contraption that takes the stars off their bellies.When they get out they are all very delighted as they can tell who is who again thus making them think they are the better sneetches again and making the other ones feel crap again. Then the story changes as all the sneetches keep going in and out of both of the contraptions until they have used all their money. The stranger laughs and tells them that they will never learn. The stranger is very wrong as the sneetches can not tell apart who is who and on that day they get very smart and decide that sneetches are sneetches and that no kind of sneetch is a bad kind of sneetch. This remindes me of anti bullying classes and anti racism classes etc.. thus showing kids in a very fun a enjoyable way that it does not matter what you look like as we are all the same on the inside.