Dr Seuss - the sneetches, as an allegory

The Sneetches is all about two groups of creatures that is being divided simply by a star on the belly. The star belly sneetches was the ones taking control over the best parts of the beach they lived on and the other ones was destined to live as outcasts. One can draw direct lines from real life racism and class division. The reason why this is an allegory is because it wants to teach the reader the lesson of not to be prejudice and to interact with different people even though they are of different races, appearance or sex. Sylvester McMonkey McBean represents the man or leader that takes advantage of the racism, and he end up taking all the sneetches money to the very last dollar before he packs up his stuff and leaves. He has gotten what he came for and did not care how he got it. This can in many ways be compared to the 19 hundreds robber barons, who earned their riches by taking advantage of other people and their labor.

At the end of the story the sneetches comes together in unity, and the lesson learned in the story was partly because of McBean and his machines and when they understood that when they did not know who was what it didnt make a difference.

The hunger game - Final Blog

Now that I finished the book I can't say anything else than how astonished I am over the end. As I progressed towards the end of the book I got more and more excited, and I couldn't wait for the end, to figure out what finally happened. Catniss and Peta both faught for their lives, and they stood together to the very end, offering to both die for each other. The Capitol was now "defeated", their power was lessened and the districts could finally stand together to fight the opposition forcing them to work, for nothing but the capitols well being.

I never saw this end coming. I was expecting Catniss to win, but I also expected Peta to sacrifice himself for her, or something similar to that. But I was wrong, and I honestly like this ending better. The final fight between the three last standing contestants was exciting from the very first moment, and even though I was laying in bed almost sleeping, I could not put the book away just because I wanted to find out what happened next.

It was a thriller of a book. It constantly made me change the views of the characters, and I never really decided who to cheer for before the end gave me a final answer. It is a book I can recommend to everyone, and it doesn't target a specific group of people, because it plays on both emotions and actions. I can with my hand on my chest say, I love this book, and as it is the second book I have ever finished, I would rank it as number one of the two.

I am Christopher Krohn, and Im loving it.