Ross Dictado

The Butter Battle Book

By: Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss wrote The butter battle book to show his view of the cold war. In the very
beginning the grandfather Yook was telling his grandson all the bad things about the Nooks who
live on the other side of the wall. This is like the propaganda that the US and the Soviet Union
used to make the other side look bad. Also the Yooks had the people working in the background
to develop more weapons to use in the dispute. This is the same from in the cold war because
The Soviet Union and The USA were secretly building atomic bombs at the same speed. When
the two generals of the yooks and the nooks always were in a stalemate and had to retreat. Every
time they would confront the other side would always one up the other. The Yooks continued to
secretly develop their weapons until the finally created the most powerful weapon of all. They
created the Atomic bomb, however they call it the Big Bomber in the book.
When they were facing each other the looked scared because they knew if they dropped
the bomb then the other side would drop their bomb and result in mutually ensured destruction.
In the end one could say that the nuclear proliferation is the thing the endured the safety of each
side of the wall. If one side were to drop the bomb then the other would and it would end up
destroying the entire species. Thats the way the book ended just like in the Cold war both sides,
the US and The Soviet Union, didnt send any of their bombs to the other side because they
would be mutually ensured destruction. To me, after reading this book, I became blatantly clear
that Dr. Seuss was a non-violent man. He thought that the nuclear proliferation is meaningless.
Also he brought up the scandals that the governments are a part of, he did so by descriptions of
the room in the back of the office where the yooks would secretly develop weapons. Mutually
ensured destruction, I believe that if we didnt have two sides of war with the same weapons, in
regards to bombs, then I think the human race wouldve seized to exist many years ago; due to
all of the radiation that wouldve been a result to blowing everyone up. At the very least we
would be forced to move our civilization underground for a couple centuries. That is represented
in the end of the book before the face off with the bombs, the yooks and nooks that werent a part
of the military were put into underground bomb shelters, those very shelters would be the new
homes of them.
On either sides of the wall both the yooks and the nooks are fairly similar. The both look
the same except for two major differences, one wore blue and the other wore orange. The other
major difference and this difference is what started this whole ordeal is the fact the one side
butter their bread with the butter side up and the other butters their butter side down. I feel as
though they couldve avoided this entire conflict if they didnt butter their bread at all.