Does Ted Cruz not realize "Green Eggs and Ham" is about stubbornly resisting something that turns out to actually be pretty good? Also, "Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss’ best-selling book, is about more than green eggs—but it is still, most certainly, about color. Although less elaborate than someof his other analogous stories, Green Eggs and Ham is, at least on the surface, about the power of perseverance in theface of stubborn resistance. (“You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And you may.”) But it is more than coincidence that his Green Eggs and Ham was published the same year President Eisenhower signed the CivilRights Act, which mandated federal oversight of elections in the South. It may be a stretch to imagine, but when Sam-I-Am is pressing hisneighbor to try a strange gastronomic concoction, Seuss is pressing his readers to consider the goodness in things previously untried—like integrated schools systems and churches. At the very least, Green Eggs and Ham is about navigating life with an open mind and, at its best, it’s Seuss’ way of saying, “Don’t judge a book, or an egg—or a man—by its color.”
Posted on: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:01:16 +0000
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