5/22/2023 0 Comments Green eggs and ham 1973![]() ![]() Seuss's publisher, that Seuss (after completing The Cat in the Hat using 236 words) could not complete an entire book without exceeding that limit. The vocabulary of the text consists of just 50 words and was the result of a bet between Seuss and Bennett Cerf, Dr. Green Eggs and Ham is one of Seuss's "Beginner Books", written in a very simple vocabulary for beginning readers. When he declares that he likes them, he happily says, "I do so like green eggs and ham. ![]() Finally, the man accepts the offer and samples the green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am." Sam further asks him to eat that food in various locations (house, box, car, tree, train, dark, rain, boat) and with a few different animals (mouse, fox, goat), but is still rebuffed. However, the man refuses multiple times throughout the story by saying, "I do not like green eggs and ham. ![]() Sam-I-Am offers an unnamed man a plate of green eggs and ham. ![]()
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