Children often don’t want to try a new food and their parents attempt to get them to eat it in any way they can. Dr. Seuss emphases these childlike memories and exaggerates them. In Green Eggs and Ham, Sam attempts to convince an unnamed character to eat green eggs and ham. At the end of the poem he finally tries them and ends up liking them. Throughout Fox in Socks, a fox says tongue twisters to a Knox. The fox does this till the end when the Knox says an even harder tongue twister and beats the fox at his own game. In his poems Green Eggs and Ham and Fox in Socks, Dr. Seuss uses imagery and diction to paint unusual pictures in the reader’s head and create a childlike and playful feeling.
First, Dr. Seuss uses imagery to create strange and
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For example, in Green Eggs and Ham, Sam asks about the “green eggs and ham” and says “Would you like them with in a house? / Would you like them with a mouse?” (18-19). By saying this and emphasizing how hard Sam is trying, Seuss reminds the reader of childhood and when parents would try to get their children to try something new. Also the word mouse is a bit unusual in the fact that most wouldn’t eat with a mouse. However the word adds more to the playful tone because a mouse is so small and innocent and eating with is something a child could do. In Fox in Socks, the fox says “Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. / That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.” (64-65). By using these words he creates the feeling of childhood when tongue twisters were always trying to be said correctly. By making hard to say Seuss also creates a playful tone because the reader wants to try to say it both correctly and fast. By using “trees’ cheese,” Seuss adds to the playful tone because trees don’t have cheese; this is also paints a odd image in the reader’s head. Within each of these poems Seuss uses diction to establish an amusing sense to the poem, and makes the reader recall times of