Dr. Suess

Before Dc. Seuss was a kid’s short story writer, he was a political cartoonist. Because of this past job, many of his opinions are shown through his writing. In almost all of his books, there are social issues shown through. Two books in particular called, “What was I Scared Of” and “The Zax” have a strong bias.

“What was I Scared Of” was about a boy who continuously saw a scary pair of green pants, and he was so scared that he started changing himself to try and avoid the pants as much as possible. In the end he realizes that the pants were just as scared of him that he was of them. They later became best friends. This strange story focuses on two smaller problems. One was that we are often too scared of things that we change ourselves and our actions because of this fear. Another social issue in this book is that we often base our actions on our fear but also on  people’s looks. This is shown through the main character’s confusion and fear towards the green pants. The only unfair that action that occurred in this story was that the main characteristic judged the pants too quickly. He didn’t realize that the pants were actually just trying to be nice.

“The Zax” was about two creatures called zaxes who were once both walking in opposite directions one day and they both crash into each other but stubbornly, neither one tries to move out of the way. This short story’s social issue was that the government often, is so stubborn and will only settle for what they want, no compromises, so they never get anything done. This is shown by how he two zaxes stood in each other's paths, not budging. Dr. Seuss wants to convince people that compromising is key. The unfair action that happened was that the two Zax were being so stubborn that it was starting to affect everyone else too. Their stubborn actions were unfairly affecting their peers.