The Sneetches and the Butter Battle: Rough Draft № 1

As humans, people judge each other about their abilities and personalities. Therefore, these internal and external attributes separate and create major contradictions among them. Similarly, Dr. Seuss’s two stories, The Sneetches and The Butter Battle, conveys these substantial themes: bigotry, competition, and social hierarchy are significant themes that were expressed. Thus, people should not think of themselves as a superior over others, but instead think of themselves as equivalent to individuals.

Initially, discrimination acts as a crucial role in the two stories when conflict arose between the two groups. For instance, in The Sneetches, the Star-Belly Sneetches had avoided the Plain-Belly Sneetches and did not allow them to join them in any activity. In the story, the narrator states, “When the Star-Belly Sneetches had frankfurter roasts or picnics or parties or marshmallow toasts, they never invited the Plain-Belly Sneetches. They left them out cold, in the dark of the beaches. They kept them away. Never let them come near. And that’s how they treated them year after year.” F...