Theodor Seuss Geisel once said, “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose,” and that is exactly what he did. When he was in college he became editor in chief at the school's humor magazine, Jack-O-Lantern. One night when Theodor and his friends were drinking in the dorms, as a result of breaking the law he was kicked off the staff (Dr. Seuss). However that did not stop theodor from doing what he loves, he changed his pen name to Dr. Seuss and continued to send in articles for the paper. After graduating Dartmouth, he went to Oxford University where he then met his wife, Helen Palmer. In 1927 after the couple was married, they moved back to the United States. Dr. Seuss was an amazing writer and cartoonist who influenced the society through his stories.
At the beginning of World War 2 Theodor began contributing political cartoons (“Dr. Seuss”). He later served with Frank Capra’s signal corps since he was too old for the draft. While working for Frank, he made animated training films and drawing propaganda posters for the Treasury Department and the War Production Board. He made the films, Your Job in Germany and Our Job in Japan during the war. Those films were intended to help put the soldiers into the right mindset and that is exactly what they did. Dr. Seuss also made new words and books to help improve kids reading (Kathylandin). William Spaulding, the director of Houghton Mifflin's education division decided to challenge Dr.Seuss and asked him to write a book that first graders couldn't put down. At first Dr. Seuss thought it would be an easy thing to do, but it took him a year and a half to write the book known as The Cat in the Hat. When he was finished, not only was the book a big hit, but it had 220 vocab words. In his book , If I Had A Zoo, he used the word “nerd” which was another one of his made up words. Now the word “nerd” is in the english dictionary and is used by almost everybody. Most of the books that Dr.Seuss wrote had hidden meanings behind them ("The Stories Behind 10 Dr. Seuss Books"). Such as, the Lorax, Horton Hears a Who, Yurtle the Turtle, and the Butter Battle Book. In the book The Lorax, Dr. Seuss made a point about helping the environment. In Horton Hears a Who, he makes a point that everyone is important. The book Yurtle the Turtle was actually about hitler and world war two. Finally, the Butter Battle Book was about the cold war and the arms race. This book was actually pulled off the shelves for a while because it was such a sensitive subject. Each book was able to get a message across to the children and those who read his books, which could always lead to something more. Dr. Seuss was a famous cartoonist and writer who published over 60 books, most of those were children books. He not only influenced the lives of the children who red his books, but he also brought insight to those in the war. As well as having meanings in each of his stories to get a point across. Dr. Seuss was an amazing author and influence in many lives. Although he died in 1991, the example he left and books he made will continue to live on in the lives of others.
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