![]() ![]() Stretch it all some more, and maybe Geisel, writing in the 1950s, was creating an extremely heavily veiled parable about racism. ![]() ![]() If there’s any “agenda” at all to Geisel’s book, about a kindly elephant who learns of very, very tiny people living on a speck of pollen and devotes himself to getting them to safety even as his fellow jungle residents scoff at him - hearing voices? tiny people? *snort* - then it is merely this: It is its own reward to be nice to people, even if they don’t look like you. I mean, I’d read it as a kid, but, you know, kids don’t pick up on subtext, and maybe there was something I’d missed as a tyke.īut no. Because I could not imagine that the gist of what was up on the screen was actually present in the book. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! and immediately hied myself to a bookstore to pick up a copy of the Ted Geisel children’s book upon which this is based. But this is what I felt as I stumbled from my Saturday morning screening of Dr. It’s not a word that should be applicable to anything Seussical. ![]()
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