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Stream horton hears a who7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Parenting: Do you use propagandistic skills in your books? On the other hand, he also said this on the same site: The slogan "a person's a person, no matter how small" is really what Seuss is trying to get at. The kangaroos, therefore, represents Americans and the Whos are the Japanese. So the entire thing is an allegory for post-war Japan. ![]() One of them was to encourage soldiers to vote. It’s all left over from my war experience, when I was making propaganda and indoctrination films. And of course when the little boy stands up and yells “Yop!” and saves the whole place, that’s my statement about voting-everyone counts. Well, Japan was just emerging, the people were voting for the first time, running their own lives-and the theme was obvious: “A person’s a person no matter how small,” though I don’t know how I ended up using elephants. He had drawn anti-Japanese cartoons during the war, and he realizes this: He thought of the "person's a person, no matter how small" from his experiences in post-war Japan. The reason he wrote it is very interesting. ![]()
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