Literature of the 1930’s
During the 1930s the United States had many great writers, which had influenced Americans in many different ways with different purposes. in such cases Theodore Geisel is one of the great writers who falls in the category. Literature in the 1930’s controlled peoples perspectives by the different aspects of writers opinion. Dr. seuss for example a writer who speaks his mind and is not afraid of exposing the truth.
Dr. Seuss was a writer gory of a historic writer to entertain the audience by adding humor to his work, from which he got an idea to work with animation to get his m essage across to Americans. He wrote entertaining books but his cartoonist career was far more successful. He was a great animator by the methods he incorporated his ideology into his cartoons. He was politically biased and felt free to express his opinion with the world. he exposed many secretive information.
Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts his father was a son of German immigrants, who managed the family brewery. Seuss was raised in the Lutheran faith and remained a member for his entire life. His life began to change when he attended Springfield's Central High School and entered Dartmouth College in fall 1921. At Dartmouth, he joined the humor magazine Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern, eventually running editor-in-chief..
While at Dartmouth, he was caught throwing a drinking party, violating national Prohibition laws of the time As a result, the school insisted that he resign from all extracurricular activities. In order to continue his work on the Jack-O-Lantern without the administration's knowledge, he began signing his work with his nickname "Seuss"; his first work signed as "Dr. Seuss" appeared after he graduated, six months into his work for humor magazine The Judge where his weekly feature Birdsies and Beasties appeared. At Dartmouth he was encouraged in his writing by professor of rhetoric W. Benfield Pressey, a beloved teacher who took a keen interest in his emerging talent and help him improve in life.
for a beginner Dr. sues did not want to begin his writing his stories with a moral in mind, stating that "kids can see a moral coming a mile off", he was not against writing about issues; he said "there's an inherent moral in any story". And remarked that he was "subversive as hell". Many of Geisel's books are thought to express his views on a myriad of social and political issues: The Lorax (1971), about environmentalism and anti-consumerism; The Sneetches (1961), about racial equality; The Butter Battle Book (1984), about the arms race; Yertle the Turtle (1958), about anti-fascism and anti-authoritarianism; How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957), about anti-materialism; and Horton Hears a Who! (1954), about anti-isolationism and internationalism.
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