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Green Eggs and Ham
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Green Eggs and Ham
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Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Setting
This part of Seussville is most famous for its signature dish, the notorious green eggs and ham platter. In spite of the, um, restrictive dining options, we are huge fans. After all, in this part o...
Tone
We are so pumped up. If you were at Shmoop HQ right now, you'd see us marching around, chanting:Say!I do like green eggs and ham!I do! I like them, Sam-I-am! (139-142)Hurrah!Hurrah!Hurrah!Oh, sorry...
Writing Style
Green Eggs and Ham is 100% dialogue, consisting entirely of a question and answer session between the odd couple of the story. Sam does the asking (gist: how about some green eggs and ham?), and Sa...
What's Up With the Title?
This one's a toughie.Oh wait.This is a book about green eggs and ham, through and through. And you know what? We might forget about some of the scenes in the book (hey, we've all been there), but w...
What's Up With the Ending?
We seem to have a happy ending on our hands here. After all, everybody gets what they want. Sam knows what he wants all along: for the big guy to eat green eggs and ham. But the big guy has just re...
Trivia
Green Eggs and Ham is made up of only fifty separate words. Go ahead, count 'em. (Source.)True story: a prison inmate once sent an egg to a judge to protest the prison food he was receiving. The ju...