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*** To clarify, in the story, the narrator eventually gives in to trying the green eggs and ham. The message appears to be more positive, as in, it's good to try new things and it's ok to admit you changed your mind instead of being stuck in your original opinion.
* When [[Tom Clancy]] wrote ''[[Rainbow Six]]'', it was almost certainly intended as an [[Author Tract]] against environmentalists, especially the extremist fringe. But the only way he could make them into a credible threat was by putting them in charge of a [[Mega Corp|mega-corporation]] with near-limitless resources and political influence. Since anyone with extremist views could have done what they did with the resources they had, this turns the story into an Aesop about the dangers of corporate power, which is almost certainly not what Clancy had in mind given the strong conservative tone of his works...
* ''[[Fahrenheit 451]]'' is almost universally interpreted to be about government censorship on literature being used to control the population. As late as the 1980s, Bradbury himself stated that the book is about censorship. In his old age, however, Bradbury has come out insisting that [[Flip-Flop of God|he'd always intended]] the book to be about [https://web.archive.org/web/20131106001211/http://www.laweekly.com/2007-05-31/news/ray-bradbury-fahrenheit-451-misinterpreted/ how crappy television is]. Critics have wisely chosen to ignore Bradbury's assertions, and a UCLA class drove him from the room by telling him to his face that [[Death of the Author|he's simply wrong about his own book]].
** In all fairness the [[New Media Are Evil]] vibe comes across very strongly throughout the novel, perhaps it's just a question of where different people see the emphasis...
* The eighteenth century critic Thomas Rhymer said that there seemed to be two possible Aesops in ''[[Othello]]': either [[Values Dissonance|"Don't elope with blackamoors"]] or else "Take better care of your laundry." (The latter being a reference to Desdemona's handkerchief, which convinces [[Too Dumb to Live|Othello]] that his wife is cheating on him.)
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