Ross Dictado

The Butter Battle Book

By: Dr. Seuss
The Butter Battle Book is the way Dr. Seuss showed 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. On both sides of the wall the weapons that they were
secretly developing were improving at the same speed. This is the same from in the cold war
because The Soviet Union and us 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. This continued until the
Man in charge gave the general the ultimate weapon, the atomic bomb, or the big boy bomber,
from 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. 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.
In the book both sides of the walls were fairly similar they all had similar educational systems
and governmental systems. However they had one difference and that one difference is the thing
that separated them the most. The Yooks thought that the right way to butter their bread was with
the butter side up. However the Nooks thought that the bread was better butter side down. This is
different to the US and the Soviet Union, we have a democratic system and government and the
Soviets do not. This is one of the reasons why the cold war started. When the Soviets were
building the bombs then the US thought that they might use them to intimidate the other
countries of the world. So, the US started the Manhattan project, this was when the US built
bombs without the country knowing. That similar to the weapons the Yookeree would give the
general to threaten the nooks.