Literary Analysis of Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

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In Green Eggs and Ham, the child finally gets to be the boss and tell the grown-up what to eat. From a child’s point of view, grown-ups have been goofing around with children’s diets for as long as there have been grown-ups and children. It is the classic foundation that each and every child has grown up to follow. First, grown-ups hook their children on milk and milk-like products. Then, just when the children get used to it and settle in, the grown-ups rip it away and make them eat disgusting, healthy green stuff. Not cool, grown-ups, not cool. In Dr. Seuss's world, the grown-up gets a taste of his own medicine. Next thing you know, your children will be telling you what to eat. Get ready for candy, cookies and chocolate milk, every…single…day. In this performance, I will show how children turn the table on grown-ups, and give them a taste of their own medicine. Green Eggs and Ham is 100% dialogue, consisting entirely of a question and answer session between the odd couple of the story. Sam does the asking, and Sam's nameless acquaintance does the answering. It's never a simple no, however. It's more like a, “Not in a house. Not in a box. Not with a mouse. Not with a fox. I will not eat them here or there. I do not like them anywhere” (Seuss 92-100). There are 158 lines of this relentless back-and-forth action, as Sam and the big guy make their way across vast stretches of land, sky, and sea. I’ll explain how it all goes down. Sam-I-Am loves his green eggs and ham. The unnamed character, we’ll call him the big guy, does not. Sam's mission is to get the big guy to eat the green stuff. Sam is a child-like little guy who comes into the room riding a dog-like creature and holding a sign that says "I am Sam" (1). Smiling, he tips his red, floppy hat. An important note to point out here is that the only actual text on this page is what I just

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