I just saw Horton Hears a Who. I don't know if the movie went along with Seuss's book-I have only ready two or three of his books. . . he's not one of my favorites. Did anyone that saw it get the distinct feeling that the elephant is an allegory for the US and the who is an allegory for Israel? Maybe I am just imagining things. . .I could not figure who the kangaroon would be an allegory for--Germany?
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"I have only ready two or three of his books. . . he's not one of my favorites."
Why, are there too many words and not enough pictures?
"I have only ready two or three of his books. . . he's not one of my favorites"
Dr Suess used rhyming and fun words to get kids phonics up to speed. He's more of a cartoonist telling origional stories then a teacher but his books went over so well and made kids want to read.
He never even tried any underlying political messages. As already stated here, something doesn't always mean something else.
This is like people trying to say Gilligans Island had communist undertones
"Did anyone that saw it get the distinct feeling that the elephant is an allegory for the US and the who is an allegory for Israel?"
No.
"Maybe I am just imagining things. . .I could not figure who the kangaroon would be an allegory for--Germany?"
No.
Your fairy tale book is warping your perception of everything, you realize that yes?
You know, usually when someone says that someone isn't their "favourit" author, they generally mean a novelist like Stephen King, or Dean Koontz or Margaret Atwood or something. Grown ups don't generally read children's books for pleasure. I guess all that home skulin done you good eh Blessedhope777! You can't even make it through a simple children's book.
Oh btw, the elephant is not an allegory for the US, the who is not an allegory for Israel and the kangaroon (whatever the hell that may be) is not an allegory for anything. IT'S A CHILDREN'S BOOK/MOVIE TAKE IT AT FACE VALUE AND STOP READING INTO THINGS THAT AREN'T THERE!!!!!
I'm gonna go shoot myself now.
I'm pretty sure that Dr. Suess' only political allegory was The Butter Battle Book , and that was more a statement about the stupidity of war in general than a condemnation of any specific country or political movement.
And if "kangaroons" were to symbolize any country, surely it would be Australia, wouldn't it?
Poor Dr. Seuss, I'm glad he isn't around to hear all of this bullshit.
IT'S A FUCKING KIDS BOOK AIMED AT TEACHING BASIC PHONETICS TO FUCKING KIDS! THERE ARE NO SECRET MESSAGES IN IT
Now to learn about lying, please check out "What I saw today on Mulberry Street."
Sheesh.
Why does everything have to be symbolic to these guys? Can't they just sit and enjoy a movie without bitching about it?
David D.G. Yertle the Turtle is probably the only other book that Dr. Seuss wrote that has political overtones, IIRC. He did not intend for most of his books to be more than books that children would enjoy reading. Green Eggs and Ham was written on a bet that he couldn't write a book using less than 50 words that First graders learned. The Lorax and the Butter Battle were other political books.
Spoiler: In Butter Battle, the Yooks are Americans and the Zooks are Soviets!
That book was so weird, I just read it for the first time to a family friend's son.
On the other hand, Horton hears a Who is not a political book.
Dr. Seuss DID put hidden symbolism and allegory into a lot of his works.
But POLITICAL symbolism and allegory, it wasn't. Unless you count Marvin J. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now! , which was about Nixon's resignation.
What are talking about? Dr Seuss put less than subtle political allegories in most of his work. He used to be a political cartoonist. What do you the Lorax about?
I vaguely remember reading an interview where he said it was about Japan but I can't remember.
What are talking about? Dr Seuss put less than subtle political allegories in most of his work. He used to be a political cartoonist. What do you the Lorax about?
I vaguely remember reading an interview where he said it was about Japan but I can't remember.
This poster obviously missed the part where the kangaroo smugly says that she is "pouch-schooling" her son. Home school advocates were up in arms about it. They claimed that it was implying that home schooling is all about indoctrinating children and making them small minded.
In any case, with a stab like that (and yes, I believe it was a stab) it is clear to me that the script-writers had some degree of allegory in mind. BlessedHope777 just missed it by a mile.
The kangaroon symbolised the peaceful relations that exist between Australia and Cameroon.
Or maybe it was just a kangaroo and wasn't meant to symbolise anything whatsoever. Just a wild guess on my part.
I know I'm not imagining things when I see complete horse crap on Rapture Ready, that's for sure.
You...are just medically incapable of not seeing allegory everywhere and just enjoying something as entertainment, aren't you? Everything is just loaded with hidden agenda and deceit and everyone is all part of a big conspiracy to destroy your precious way of life, and not to tell a story, share their ideas and opinions, or hell, just make a lot of money doing those other two things, right?
Okay, one: the interpretation of Horton Hears a Who by conservatives is supposed to be abortion, not Israel. Two, it's neither of those - it's the post-World War II occupation of Japan.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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