Tatyana Cobbin

5/18/15
Bell-3A
The Butter Battle Book
The Butter Battle Book is about a land where two hostile cultures, the Yooks
and the Zooks, live on opposite sides of a long curving wall. The Yooks wear blue
clothes; the Zooks wear orange. Yooks eat their bread with the butter-side up,
while the Zooks eat their bread with the butter-side down and this was their main
problem. This dispute resulted in an arms race. A Zook named Van Itch slingshots
the Yook patrolman's "Tough-Tufted Prickly Snick-Berry Switch" and after the
Yooks then develop a machine with three slingshots interlinked, called a "TripleSling Jigger" and this was the beginning of the race. They both kept retaliating
after back and forth, over and over. At e end no compromise is made and they are
still in war mode. The book has similarities like and mirror events that happened
in the Cold War. The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after
World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc.
The two superpowers never engaged directly in armed combat but they each armed
heavily in preparation for a nuclear world war. The Yooks and the Zooks both kept
making huge weapons to kind of say You cant beat this. They were ready for a
possible nuclear war just as the two superpowers in the Cold War. The Yooks and
Zooks never engaged directly in armed combat either. In the Cold War there was a
wall built to separate the powers in the Western Bloc and the powers in the Eastern
Bloc. This was called the Berlin Wall. In the Butter Battle Book, there was a wall
built a curving wall to separate the Yooks and the Zooks. This book was written
during the Cold War era and this book reflects the peoples fears at this time. They
all knew that there was a possibility that all life on Earth could be destroyed in a
nuclear war.