Where can I find analysis of The Sneetches by Dr. Suess? Discussing its teachings on racism and the holocaust?

Question

I'm doing a project for school, and I thought for sure I'd find a ton of stuff on the web, but all I can get are tiny passages saying that Dr. Suess was a Jew and thats why he wrote it.

There's got to be more than that! Why did he write it? what do different things represent? (the stars obviously a jewish/nazi reference) there have got to be some papers and analysis of this story out there, help!!

Answer 1

Here's what I found on Wikipedia:
[edit] "The Sneetches"
At its simplest, "The Sneetches" is a story about yellow bird-like creatures called Sneetches. However its most important part is the lesson it teaches about racism.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Some Sneetches have a green star on their belly, and in the beginning of the story the presence or absence of a star is the basis for discrimination. Sneetches who have stars on their bellies are part of the "in crowd", while Sneetches without stars are shunned and excluded.

In the story, a "fix-it-up" chap named Mr. Sylvester McMonkey McBean appears, driving a cart of strange machines. He offers the Sneetches without stars a chance to have them by going through his Star-On machine, for three dollars. The old star-bellied Sneetches are furious until McBean tells them about his Star-Off machine, costing ten dollars. This escalates, with the Sneetches running from one machine to the next,

"until neither the Plain nor the Star-Bellies knew
Whether this one was that one or that one was this one.
Or which one was what one or what one was who."
This continues until the Sneetches have no more money and McBean leaves them. At the end of the story the Sneetches learn that neither plain-belly nor star-belly Sneetches are superior, and they are able to get along and become friends.

The story is an obvious allegory for racism and discrimination, and teaches the lesson that all people are the same on the inside, despite outward differences. It can also be viewed as a satire on fashion following and keeping up with the Joneses.

Geisel, a perfectionist and sensitive artist, almost scrapped the manuscript when he became concerned the story may wrongfully be taken as an allegory for anti-Semitism, and the stars on the birds' bellies might be taken as the six-cornered stars Jews were forced to wear in public under Hitler's rule in Nazi Germany. His publisher convinced him to go ahead with the book. Today it is one of his most well-known stories, and was even adapted for a twelve-minute animated short a few years later.

"The Sneetches" is written in anapestic tetrameter, and – as is typical for Seuss books – follows the rhyme scheme and meter very strictly.

Answer 2

The Sneetches Movie

Answer 3

The book "Your Favorit Seuss A baker's doxen by the one and only Dr, Seuss" is a very large book. In it you will find 13 Dr. Seuss stories each followed by a one page essay on the storey, why he wrote it, ect.

Answer 4

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