![]() ![]() Each time something new is introduced it builds on top of what has already been asked. The story continues with Sam-I-am asking if the hat character would like green eggs and ham in different situations. Without trying them or giving any explanation, the character in the hat announces that he does not like green eggs and ham. Sam-I-am quickly jumps at the chance to ask him, He is immediately grumpy and says he does not like something. When Sam comes back into the room he is riding a large cat-like creature and his sign now says “Sam I am.” He is standing on a dog with a sign that says “I am Sam.” He rides past our cover character quietly sitting in a chair reading a newspaper. The cover immediately shows us the character in the hat and the plate of green eggs and ham, but once you open the book the first character we meet is Sam-I-am. – Chuck Jones (director for Looney Tunes, as well as the 1970 Horton Hears a Who! cartoon) “ took the common phrase, ham and eggs, and commanded attention by reversing it…He used Sam-I-am, not just Sam and Sam-I-am not only rhymes with green eggs and ham, but has the same metric emphasis.” “ can play so many tunes on his simplified keyboard, that, reading him, one is hardly aware that there are not more than fifty words.” ![]()
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