Seuss as he wrote this book (but presumably not when he made it clear the book was about something else). The pro-lifers believe that God guided the heart and mind of Dr. Seuss expressly stated that the book was really about the American military's post-World War II occupation of Japan. The " pro-life" movement has co-opted the message of this book for their own purposes. The Japanese kids were people too, no matter how small, and someone had to speak up for them, especially if that person was the only one who could hear them.
After seeing that many Japanese children had the same hopes and dreams as any other child, he decided to dedicate a book to them. unflattering caricatures of the Japanese, took a tour of Japan. Seuss, who during World War II had created plenty of propaganda and. A phrase, shikata ga nai (仕方が無い, "can't be helped") basically sums up this time.ĭr. To give you an idea of what the place was like, a quarter of American servicemen (and more than half of the Aussies) were hospitalized from syphilis and/or gonorrhea. Japan was humiliated, Japanese were practically second-class citizens in their own country, and the Allies basically celebrated by, well. While the Allied occupation was nowhere close to the scale of atrocities that Japan had unleashed upon its neighbors, atrocities so terrible that even Nazi leaders got involved to try and mitigate it, it was not a good idea to be Japanese at this time. In the realm of the sane, the book was about the Allied occupation of Japan. Which brings us to the relevance of this subject.Īn example of one of Seuss's racist WWII-era propaganda cartoons, being used to justify Japanese-American internment Horton has saved their little world because, as it puts it, "a person's a person, no matter how small." When they do, the other animals finally hear them and spare their lives and their little world. Because the other animals can't hear the Whos, they threaten to boil the speck of dust in "Beezelnut Oil." Horton convinces the Whos to make as much noise as possible. They ask him to protect them, which he does, only to be ridiculed and imprisoned by the other animals who think he's gone nuts. It turns out that the speck is actually a tiny planet inhabited by microscopic humanoids known as Whos.
One day, an elephant named Horton is out splashing in a pond when he hears a voice calling out to him from a speck of dust.
Seuss (and his estate) react to wingnut appropriation
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