American singer and songwriter, Greg Graffin, defined a punk as: an individual who goes against dogmatic and institutional thinking. Throughout literary history there have been multiple authors, poets, playwrights, etc. that can be placed under the title of ‘punk’. Dr. Seuss is the perfect example for someone to fit this title. Dr. Seuss is a German-American author, poet, political cartoonist, and many other writing professions. He is most known for his authoring of more than sixty children’s books. In some of his children’s books he integrated some of his ideas of some major concerns dealing the communal belief of the United States in how to deal with problems or threats to society. In one of Dr. Seuss’s children’s books, “Horton Hears …show more content…
Racial segregation between blacks and whites in the United States came to light after the Jim Crow Laws were passed. These laws were enforced until 1965, greatly favoring the white race and bearing down on the African American people living in the United States. The non-star Sneetches were represented by the African American race in the United States, while the Sneetches with stars were the white people in the United States. Through the entire book, when the ‘African American Sneetches’ were to try and gain equality with the Sneetches with stars, the white Sneetches, this white Sneetches would do something different from them to still have that comfort of supremacy. Since there was the majority of white people in the 1960’s the Jim Crow Laws were largely favored due to the large number of white people and the lesser number of blacks. At the end of the story, the Sneetches have mixed up so much that they do not remember who is better and what is better the star or no star so they are able to reach equality in the community. Dr. Seuss is going against the majority of the people back in the 1960’s by teaching this lesson of equality of no person is better because of a star or the color of their skin, therefore fitting him under the label of a