The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss

Karla

Kenneth

ENG 101

December 9, 2016

The Sneetches

The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss is about discrimination. There are yellow bird creatures called Sneetches. Some of the Sneetches have stars on their bellies and some do not have stars. The Sneetches with the stars discriminate against the non-star belly Sneetches. Nobody ever wondered why the Sneetches with stars thought they were better than the others, with no stars at all. The Sneetches with the stars think they are above all the ones with no stars. The Sneetches with stars get taught at a young age to treat the Sneetches without stars that they are not worth anything. The parents tell their children to keep their head up and walk right past them, not saying a word to them, acting as if they were better than the Sneetch with no star.

For instance, The children with stars would play games not letting the non-star belly Sneetch play with them. The Sneetches with stars would discriminate against the Sneetches without stars, leaving the non-star belly Sneetch out of all the fun the Sneetches with stars, had. The Sneetches without stars would feel left out, wishing they had stars too. The Sneetches never got any fun, they just felt left out and not wanted at all. A monkey name Sylvester McMonkey McBean changed everything for both the star and non-star belly Sneetches. He had a car that could change the non-star Sneetches lives by giving stars to their bellies as well. Even with this change, the Sneetches with stars did not see the Sneetches with no star equally to them, they did not want to be exactly like the Sneetches without stars.

So the star belly Sneetches wanted their stars off, so they can still be better than the other Sneetches. No matter what those Sneetches did, they still did not have the same rights and to be welcomed with the other Sneetches, they could not be as equal with the star belly Sneetches. The Sneetches kept going in and out of the machine getting a star off of their belly or getting a star on their belly to be equal or better, but once they were left with no money Sylvester McMonkey McBean took off. All the sneetches had zero, one, or even more than two stars on their bellies. They did not know who was who, the Sneetches just stared at each wondering which was who. All the Sneetches at the end learned their lesson, that none were different from each other. The Sneetches invited each other to get together and have fun.