tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7659708106719994834.post2695617732348176422..comments2023-10-07T00:24:51.238-07:00Comments on That Crazy Demon Lady: Dr. Seuss Panic Attack: Jibboo, Be Not Proud...Lady Evilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11427461942031812445noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7659708106719994834.post-65473639412564700072018-11-21T08:30:12.075-08:002018-11-21T08:30:12.075-08:00Perhaps the Jibboo is simply a misunderstood creat...Perhaps the Jibboo is simply a misunderstood creature, ostracized by bird society (ever notice how many birds there are in this book?) for his strange appearance, leaving him only able to come out at night. Notice his pose appears to be a friendly greeting. Seuss poses the question, what would you do if you met a Jibboo? Would you assume he was evil? Or would you give him a chance? Or maybe he really is a boogeyman, possibly summoned by yanking the tooth of the Rink-Rinker-Fink, which appears to be a statue in his image. One interesting side note, the Jibboo cameoed in the special “Halloween is Grinch Night” as one of the Grinch’s spooks, where he assumed a much more menacing stance.Fred is the name.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07696761091449238606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7659708106719994834.post-42233810416179742832015-12-30T19:33:43.207-08:002015-12-30T19:33:43.207-08:00It's difficult to say if Mr. Jibboo is a metap...It's difficult to say if Mr. Jibboo is a metaphor. Seuss did do metaphoric imagery with his political cartoons and I've noticed some of it echoes in his children books (political deception in Green Eggs And Ham, for example). The Jibboo is a conception of 'what would you do when faced with uncertainty?'. It's dark, maybe Jibbo is the cousin to the Vipper of Vipp. They look similar, and she's rich on her throne over looking the sea and fancy clothes. Her cousin jibboo might not have been so fortunate and he's got a reputation for being a vagabond always bumming for change. Or maybe he's exactly what we fear he might be. It's uncertain. That unsettled me more now as an adult than it did when I was a kid because I've more experience with uncertain turning into something unfavorable than before.<br /><br />I like the way you pointed out the change of theme with that page, because it is different. And the page before that has an eeriness to it too. "Would you dare yank a tooth of the RINK-RINKER-FINK?". It's not "think about this- think about that", it becomes consequential suggestive questions of uncertain outcomes. I think Seuss wanted to high light how when a mind wanders without supervision, it can go to dark places. <br /><br />In "Oh The Places You'll Go", it did that too. You'll be a high flyer and race ahead the others, but then get hung up in a lurch; you'll be famous and great on TV, and then be at times all alone and afraid (insert images of dark Seuss monsters leering over little garden walls with narrowed green and yellow eyes). Seuss was an existentialistic-realist for sure.CKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05404203395438297286noreply@blogger.com