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The Sneetches, an animated film based on the Dr. Seuss story, provides a social commentary on human nature through the prejudices and behaviors displayed by types of fictional creatures, the star-bellies and the non-star-bellies. During the short film, the star-bellied Sneetches discriminate against the other sneetches because they have no stars upon thars. They do not invite them to any sort of thing. However, Monkey McBean soon came to a consensus that these creatures are ignorant. He came to the beach and offers the non-star-bellied sneetches a star upon thars for three dollars. They believe that now that they have stars on their bellies they will get included in stuff but no, the original sneetches refuse to be equal. Now they are …show more content…

The cycle does not end their, embarrassed the sneetches with stars want them taken off. So back and forth they go into the machines until they all realize, it is pointless. They do not know who is who and which is which. Happily they celebrate. Some have no stars, some have too many, but that doesn’t matter anymore to them. They are all friends now. According to the film people change their opinions because of their surroundings. In this film, they change because the others change. Everyone gets influenced by one another, and sometimes it becomes unpopular so everyone changes. Dr. Seuss wants this to get out to everyone, but most importantly to children. If they get this information at an early age it might be they will not be as prejudice once they grow older. His morals are to show how people can not get along over silly opinions or appearances when it does not really even matter. Like in middle school it is all about what someone is wearing (like the stars), what a person looks like, and what everyone listens to. It shows how immature our nature is. Everyone believes in stereotypes

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