Dr Seuss’s The Butter Battle Book, written about the butter side-up Yooks and the butter side-down Zooks, is just one of his greatest, well-known books. In The Butter Battle Book is the story of the back and forth conflict between the Zooks and Yooks trying to out do each other with inventions of machines. Throughout this book Dr Seuss uses his narrative elements like his rhymes of course, theme, and allusion to hook the reader and make it enjoyable to read. The way he uses these devices in a lot of his other popular books people know as Green Eggs and
Ham or even The Cat in the Hat, is the reason people say he’s one of the best authors and in result makes him so successful.

As everyone knows, Dr. Seuss is one of the best at writing …show more content…
Different from his other books, Dr Seuss adds a bit of allusion to this one. Seuss shows many examples that seem to tie The Butter Battle Book to the Cold War. Using this narrative element was very impressive,[comma splice] he shows his skill to be able to tell a funny children's book and resemble it to a bigger topic. For example [punctuation error] Seuss writes, “We’ll dress you right up in a fancier suit, we’ll give you a fancier slingshot to shoot” [run-on sentence] this resembles to the Arms Race; back in the Cold War the Soviet Union and United States fought the war by demonstrating their power, so they both tried to have the best weapons just like the Yooks in The Butter Battle Book. As well the author writes, “I’m unhappy to say, he came back the next day in a spiffy new suit with a big new machine” (Seuss). Resembling this quote to the Cold War, when one side came out with more and new weapons, the other side would do the same. For the last example Seuss writes, “My back room boys have already begun, to think up a walloping whizz-zinger one”[punctuation error]. This quote duplicates the Space Race, another part of the Cold War. The Space Race was basically each side trying to prove they had better scientist by achieving certain space missions first, the “back room boys” relate to the scientist in the Cold War. This passage reveals likeness of the Cold War displaying Seuss’ competence to tell his stories …show more content…
The Butter Battle Book wasn’t just about the feud of the Yooks and the Zooks but also on what Seuss thinks about the pointless. Seuss made it easy to tell by some of the lines he uses. [missing word] Page 7 Seuss writes, “As you know, on this side of the wall we are the yooks, on the far other side of this wall are the Zooks”; this example tells the reader right at the start that the Yooks and Zooks are separated. The author also writes, "It's high time that you knew of the terribly horrible thing that Zooks do. In every Zook house and in every Zook town every Zook eats his bread with the butter side down!" (Seuss). This quote displays how the Zooks and Yooks are different and that the Yooks don’t except how different they are. Lastly the author clearly reveals the theme by writing, "But we Yooks, as you know, when we breakfast or sup, spread our bread," Grandpa said, "with the butter side up. That's the right, honest way!" Grandpa gritted his teeth. "So you can't trust a Zook who spreads bread underneath!” (Seuss). This informs the reader that the Yooks and the Zooks don’t get along because they’re different, hence why they are separated. Using these quotes throughout the story makes it easy for the reader to comprehend the theme and understand the book, which again shows how well Seuss can use his writer’s