Sneetches Allegorical

A "fix-it-up chappie" named Sylvester McMonkey McBean appears and offers the Sneetches without stars the chance to have them with his Star-On machine, for three dollars. This treatment is instantly popular among the non- starred upsets the original star-bellied Sneetches because they are afraid that they are going to lose their special status. McBean then tells them about his Star-Off machine, costing ten dollars, and the Sneetches who originally had stars happily pay the money to have them removed in order to remain special. McBean allows the recently starred Sneetches through this machine as well. This escalates in chaos, with the Sneetches running from one machine to the next. This continues until the Sneetches are without any money and McBean leaves as a really a rich man. The Sneetches learn from this experience that neither plain-belly nor star-belly Sneetches are superior, and they are able to get along and become friends. I believe that this short story is a very good example of discrimination between races and cultures. This shows real life racism, political divisions, class divides and one cannot fail to think that if everyone was forced to read The Sneetches the world would contain rather less injustice.