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* In ''[[Slaughterhouse-Five]]'', Kilgore Trout argues that the real Aesop of [[The Bible]] is "Make sure people don't have connections before you kill them." For example, he claims that it would have been more meaningful if God had "adopted" [[Jesus Christ]] as he was dying on the cross rather than say he was God's son all along.
* Most readers interpreted the moral of ''I Kissed Dating Goodbye'' as "Do volunteer work as a substitute for having a significant other" instead of the intended message of "Do not forget about spirituality (including, but not limited to, serving others) simply because you wish for romantic love".
* There's a whole list of
* Buzzfeed took [http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrismenning/what-dr-suess-books-were-really-about a second look] at various works by Dr. Seuss. Some of these are particularly [[Green Aesop
** Most of those listed are actually the primary aesop intended for the book.
** The books were written to work on two levels: the timeless children's morality tale and political commentary on current events (for example, Marvin J. Mooney is Nixon). It's not as surprising when you realize that the first drawings he published were anti-Nazi political cartons starting in the late 1930's.
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