In Dr. Seuss’s book “Marvin
K. Mooney”, Marvin is a pest. Throughout the book, Marvin spends his time being
told to leave over and over and over again. He is told he may leave in a shoe,
in a hat, on skis, or on skates, but leave, leave, leave. Despite the pleading
in many ways for many days, Marvin does not leave until the end of the book.
Richard Nixon, 37th president of the United States of America, like
Marvin, was also unwilling to leave his seat in the white house. Dr. Seuss uses
his writing to compare former President of the United States to a pest living
in your house. For many, that is exactly how it was, someone not wanted was
living in our White House.
Infamous Richard Nixon is most known for his role in the Watergate scandal. The downfall of Nixon all began when his previously unreleased tape-recording came to surface after he claimed he had nothing to do with the Watergate Scandal. This tape revealed that not only had he been involved in the Watergate break-in, but he had also been lying to the American public for two years when he repeatedly told the press he knew nothing about a cover-up of the Watergate break-in. This ultimately led to Nixon’s resignation in 1974 when he was facing impeachment. Nixon informed the public of his resignation August 8 of 1974, and left the white house the morning of August 9, 1947. (74')
Much like Nixon, the pesky Marvin K. Mooney would not leave until it was his time to go. Richard Nixon could not stay in office any longer or else he would have been taken out of office; despite the public’s loss of faith and sometimes intolerance of Nixon, he did not leave until the very end when he resigned. At the end of Dr. Seuss’s book, Marvin K. Mooney finally leaves when it is his time to go but not a moment sooner.
The main character’s plight in the story ‘Marvin K. Mooney’ mirrors that of Richard Nixon on almost every level. The similarities between Marvin K. Mooney and Richard Nixon begin with their unwanted-ness and unwilling-ness to leave and end with them ultimately both having to leave. Throughout the story by Dr. Seuss, the narrator continuously tells Mooney to get! The people of the United States of America are represented by the narrator. During the time of the Watergate Scandal, many Americans where unpleased by the way Nixon was running the government and wanted him out of office. Dr. Seuss displays the way the American people feel and how Nixon acted in response, through the use of comparing it essentially to a pest in a house.
Infamous Richard Nixon is most known for his role in the Watergate scandal. The downfall of Nixon all began when his previously unreleased tape-recording came to surface after he claimed he had nothing to do with the Watergate Scandal. This tape revealed that not only had he been involved in the Watergate break-in, but he had also been lying to the American public for two years when he repeatedly told the press he knew nothing about a cover-up of the Watergate break-in. This ultimately led to Nixon’s resignation in 1974 when he was facing impeachment. Nixon informed the public of his resignation August 8 of 1974, and left the white house the morning of August 9, 1947. (74')
Much like Nixon, the pesky Marvin K. Mooney would not leave until it was his time to go. Richard Nixon could not stay in office any longer or else he would have been taken out of office; despite the public’s loss of faith and sometimes intolerance of Nixon, he did not leave until the very end when he resigned. At the end of Dr. Seuss’s book, Marvin K. Mooney finally leaves when it is his time to go but not a moment sooner.
The main character’s plight in the story ‘Marvin K. Mooney’ mirrors that of Richard Nixon on almost every level. The similarities between Marvin K. Mooney and Richard Nixon begin with their unwanted-ness and unwilling-ness to leave and end with them ultimately both having to leave. Throughout the story by Dr. Seuss, the narrator continuously tells Mooney to get! The people of the United States of America are represented by the narrator. During the time of the Watergate Scandal, many Americans where unpleased by the way Nixon was running the government and wanted him out of office. Dr. Seuss displays the way the American people feel and how Nixon acted in response, through the use of comparing it essentially to a pest in a house.