Another piece of writing that affected my life was “Oh, The Places You’ll Go” by Doctor Seuss. I read this story when I was little and I used to pretend that I was the boy on the adventure exploring the world. When my mother read the story, I used to close my eyes and imagine how the scenario happened to me. These were very relatable, as they were very general yet deep statements. As I read these books when I was 9 or 10, I saw a deeper meaning to Dr. Seuss’s books in general, especially, “Oh, The Places You’ll Go.” Many people understand this deeper meaning of a young person venturing through life. In fact, over 300,000 copies of this book are sold every year, and most of them are given to high school or college graduates, as a way of saying good luck on the journey of life.

 

In my opinion, Dr. Seuss is the greatest children’s book poet of all time. His books make sense in any shade of light. As a child you were fascinated by books like “The Lorax.” Children liked the little furry man with a mustache known as the Lorax who “spoke for the trees.” As an adult watching the movie or reading the story, you would know that the story was meant to show the forces of factories and machinery destroying our environments. Dr. Seuss didn’t enforce his values on the children, he simply expressed them in such a way that made others see his values in a different point of view. An interesting fact about “The Lorax is that in part of the story Seuss quoted, “I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Eerie.” About 14 years later, the Ohio Sea Grant Program asked him to take away that quote from future copies, because they had cleared up much of the lake.

 

Another story with deeper meaning is “Horton Hears a Who!” Dr. Seuss wrote this book about his pro-life values. Because this is and was a very controversial issue, (Pro-Life meaning opposing abortion) he obviously couldn’t have forced this onto a child, it would have been wrong to give children this kind of thought process so soon, they would just be living life with that opinion, unsure of why they actually have it. Dr. Seuss used the quote, “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” That quote had been a slogan for pro-life organizations for years.

 

Dr. Seuss’s Children’s Series Review

I enjoyed creating a review about Dr. Seuss’s children’s books because I actually learned a few things that were quite interesting to me. Most of the fun facts I fit into the paper were things I just recently learned. Like, how I stated the facts about deforestation in “The Lorax”, mostly all new information I learned online. I gained a lot of respect for Dr. Seuss, even more than I already had.