Dr.Suess Satire Essay, Research Paper

Satire

(Doctor Seuss interview)

Interviewer: All right doctor I have just a few questions for you.

Doctor: Sure, I love questions good sir!

Interviewer: Ahh yes all right then let us begin; first Question why did you quit writing books?

Doctor: Well it all goes back to forty-two when I started writing books for you, my books caught on, but they were bad and wore out because they were just a fad.

Interviewer: I see so you stopped writing what year?

Doctor: The last book that I did write was in seven minus nineteen ninety-eight.

Interviewer: All right, what do you think was your best book?

Doctor: The best book that I did make was called green eggs and steak!

Interviewer: Uhh Wasn t that book called green eggs and ham?

Doctor: I don t remember writing green eggs and ham; I don t remember that book man. As I recall it was green eggs and steak, I m pretty sure this is your mistake.

Interviewer: Maybe, anyways back to the interview, why did you change your name?

Doctor: Well my original name was Theodore, but I was looking for a name with more, and the first name that dawned on me was Doctor Seuss don t you see.

Interviewer: Alright Theodore where and when were you born?

Doctor: I was born in Springfield in nineteen Oh Four, In World War two they sent me to war, And I wrote cat in the hat in Fifty Four.

Interviewer: You and your publisher had a little wager a few years ago tell us about that.

Doctor: It was Nineteen sixty and all was well, until my publisher yell hey Geisel, I bet you fifty bucks that you cannot write a story, with fifty words or less, honky dory? To him I did make with the book green eggs and steak.

Interviewer: So the book green eggs and STEAK only have fifty words very interesting. What other information do you have for us?

Doctor: Well, My first wife died in Sixty-Seven but I remarried in twelve years minus eleven.

Interviewer: Just one more question what do you hate most about being a writer.

Doctor: Lets see, the pay is very very very poor and the new wife is always asking for more. But the thing that I hate the most is the way I talk, chat and boast.

Interviewer: Well I d have to that this interview went rather well thank you for your time Doctor.

Doctor: Sure I ll do an interview anytime, I d even do one for a dime, I d do an interview in a house, I d do the interview with a mouse. I d do an interview in the rain, I d do an interview on a train, I d do and interview on a boat, on a plane or with a goat

Interviewer: All right doctor that s quite enough.