Then he slithered and slunk, with a smile most unpleasant,
Around the whole room, and he took every present!
Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums!
Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums!
And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly,
Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimney!
Compare this to the same passage as read in the cartoon version of this story:
Then he slithered and slunk, with a smile most unpleasant,
Around the whole room, and he took every present!
Pop guns, pampoogas, pantookas, and drums!
Checkerboards, bizilbigs, popcorn, and plums!
And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly,
Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimney.
Since Dr. Seuss wrote both the book and the cartoon script, why do you think he changed up the words?
a. He needed to make it longer
b. He felt the rhyme should change
c. Since writing the book he had become famous for making up words, so he made up some new ones for the cartoon.
d. Boris Karloff, the voice for the character, suggested the changes be made to fit his style of acting better.
Scroll down for the answer.
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a. is incorrect. Sometimes scripts are changed to make them longer or shorter, but this doesn't change the time of the reading at all.
b. is incorrect. The rhyme doesn't change in the two versions.
c. is correct!
d. is incorrect. The script in this case was changed before the voice actor was even picked.
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