...ENDANGERED SPECIES: THE LORAX The Introduction The Lorax is a story about a man who abused the environment and about what he learned. The story begins in the most run-down part of a dull, gray town. A small boy asks the Once-ler to share the secret of the Lorax and how he was taken away. Thus, the story is told as a “flashback” as the Once-ler talks about the Lorax and past events. The Characters: A. The Once-ler, a businessman B. The Lorax, a leader of the plants and animals The Once-ler’s Story: The Beginning The Once-ler moved across the land to his wagon. He came upon a new land with an important natural resource. (A natural resource is a plant, animal or mineral that can be used by people.) What was this natural resource the Once-ler found? truffula trees Setting up Shop The Once-ler used the land’s natural resource to start a business which made and sold a product. The Lorax appeared at this point and asked the Once-ler some angry questions. What was the product? thneed How was it used by buyers? The Thneed is used as a shirt, a sock, a glove, a hat, carpets, pillows, sheets, curtains, and covers for bicycle seats. What did the Lorax want to know of the Once-ler? Why he is cutting the tree down (Stewardship, speaking for the trees). How did the Once-ler answer? He only cutted down one tree, everybody needed a thneed. He thinks that if he didn’t exploit he environment someone else would Using Technology Businessmen like the...
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...Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax (1971) is argued as one of the most important pieces of environmental children’s literature, with educators expressing the work, “as a powerful story for teaching and learning, as a story that can promote transformational ideas in educational practice,” (Henderson, 2004). This high praise begs the question: why is The Lorax so successful at reaching out to the child reader? This essay will indentify the use of certain literary characteristics that Seuss incorporated in The Lorax, which stemmed from successful environmental children’s literature from the late seventeenth century to the twentieth century. It will establish the success of each work due to the theme or agenda it had that reflected the social and environmental issues of its time, and will then establish to what extent Seuss’s The Lorax stands as a strong example for ecocritics and educators alike, of an environmental children’s story and its impact on the child reader. To further understand the position of this paper, it is important to identify the nature of ecocentricism and the development of the interdisciplinary field. Ecocentricism is an ethical practice that “decenters humanity’s importance in nonhuman nature and nature writing and instead explores the complex interrelationships between the human and the nonhuman,” (Buell, 2011). The practice, in the last twenty years, has become a field of inquiry in response to “growing academic concern about the response of literature and literary theory...
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...In this easy I will be comparing the Lorax By Dr Seuss and the Giving tree by Shel Silverstein. The Lorax is about an intelligent young man named Ted, who lives in a place virtually devoid of nature. Ted fell in love with a girl named Audery. Ted wanted to win the heart of the Audery but to do so he must find something she really cherishes which is a truffle tree. To get the Trufflula tree Ted delves in to the story of the Lorax. The Lorax once was the conservator of the Lorax and the Once-ler is a guy who cut down all the trees in the forest because of Greediness for money and lost all his respect for nature. Now that I have described what The Lorax is about I am going to describe about The Last Tree. Once there was a tree that loved a boy. The boy would come to play with the tree and collect the tree leaves and eat the tree's Apple. The boy also loved the tree with all his...
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...The Once-ler is a main character in The Lorax, written by the popular children's author Dr. Seuss. The story of The Lorax is very much relating to environmental changes and warns against the dangers of corporations which abuse characteristic assets to fulfill their own greed . In the story, the Once-ler comes to a bountiful healthy environment with abundant wildlife and the (fictional) Truffula Trees. He chops down the Truffula Trees and uses their colorful, fluffy tops to make the does-it-all item called a thneed. In the Beginning, the Once-ler is successful in offering his thneeds, however this prompts him chopping down the majority of the Truffula Trees, denying a significant number of animals of their nourishment and shelter. All of the...
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...The contemporary methods of resource exploitation in the Lorax did not practice sustainable development. I say this because the item The Once-Ler had invented a machine that would have 1 million ways to use it. This machine was called a Thneed. He had made the machine for the people of ThneedVille. Once Thneeds started getting popular The Once-ler was living the dream but the animals around, not so much, habitats were being destroyed and also a lot of pollution was occurring. Also in the movie The Once-ler had broken his promise with the Lorax(guardian of the trees) that he would not cut down too many trees, but he ended up cutting all of them down. After that the Lorax and all the animals were forced to leave their natural habitats because...
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...The Lorax and “Easter’s End” are both examples of how societal decisions and structures can destroy the environment. In The Lorax, Dr. Seuss creates a world in which the decisions made by an entrepreneur sends the environment past the point of reparability, meanwhile in “Easter’s End”, a scientist examines the possible cause of Easter Island's decline in population due to lack of food and resources caused by the over-farming of the land. The Lorax and “Easter’s End”, while both dealing with the destruction of the environment, differ in three major ways: the method of destroying the environment, the ways in which the destruction could have been avoided, and the motivation behind causing the destruction. The Lorax mainly focuses on industrialization's...
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...Archetypes In Children’s Literature Children’s books have always shown the reader obvious signification to how the reader should feel towards the setting and characters. Looking at different colors and settings characters sparks a feeling in a persons mind. Dr. Seuss constantly used vibrate colors and settings to portray a magical world where things are different and almost anything could happen. In his book The Lorax, Dr. Seuss introduces a desolate wasteland with dark skies, dead vegetation and wind that, “smells slow-and-sour when it blows” (1). The archetype for a wasteland is often used for a sense for it to be cleansed. The reader can assume that at one time the area flourished, having bloomed with life, and might be returned to that...
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...Although it is seen as a “children’s book,” nothing more that literature for the undeveloped mind, The Lorax is a piece of work that is perfect for this discussion. Through the amusing (and sometimes downright silly) diction of Dr. Seuss, the tale of the little boy listening to the Once Ler not only gives an environmentalist message but, it also gives insight into the bullying issue. Within the story, in a similar way to how fracking companies work, the Once Ler continues to abuse the resources around him (which are the truffula trees) despite what it does to the residents of the forest. Why does he do this? This question leads to the theme of greed. Like the Once Ler, many corporate CEOs have been blinded by greed and ambition, resulting...
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...THE LORAX AND EASTER’S END According to an article by Sam Martin, “Nearly 4 billion tress or 35 percent of the total trees cut around the world are used in paper industries on every continent.” Take a moment to absorb that statistic. Trees are one of the most beneficial natural resource that plays a vital role in our everyday life. As of right now, humans around the world are using so much resource from the Earth and we do not even realize it. If we do not learn to conserve and not take our natural resources for granted, then one day our planet Earth will end up in a disastrous outcome like how the “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss and “Easter’s End” by Jared Diamond did. The two stories share the same theme, which is people taking nature for granted and ended up destroying the environment for personal uses. Although the general theme may be similar, there were several differences between the two stories, other than the fact that one story was fiction and one was historical. In both stories, several key environmental issues were shown to exemplify the consequence of abusing the environment. In “The Lorax”, the truffula trees were the main natural resource that were chopped down and stripped of their leaves in order to make thneeds, which was everything the humans would need. Similarly in “Easter’s End,” the Polynesian natives, who sculpted statues to express their culture, used a plentiful amount of trees to place the statues on and transport them to the locations of where they would...
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...Easter’s End and The Lorax In Easter Island there use to be approximately more than several thousands of people living there but throughout time went extinct. The people that lived there were able to wipe out all their resources such as trees and were able to use them for things they needed. Due to these actions more and more trees were being cut down in order to be used as something else and this led to deforestation just like in the movie The Lorax. In the movie the Once-ler also is shown to be taking advantage of the trees but he was able to make profit out of this. Both the Once-ler and the people living in Easter Islands did not realize all the damage that they were causing to the world around them. In the article “Easter’s End” by Jared Diamond, he is able to go more indepth of how and why it was led to extinction of the people, animals and plants....
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...The movie “The Lorax” by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, tells the story of a man who’s actions destroyed the environment and the lessons he learns. The Onceler, changed the future and majorly affected the life of Ted and the citizens of Thneedville. In current Thneedville there are no trees. This happened because the Onceler didn’t respect and try to sustain the environment. The Onceler wanted to find the perfect material to make his invention, a thneed. He finds a place full of wonderful trees, called the Forest of Truffula Trees. He starts cutting down trees so he can make a thneed. Suddenly, lightning struck the tree and out popped the Lorax, who speaks for the trees. The Lorax tries to convince the Onceler to leave, but he was determined to stay....
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...Dani Ben-Reuven 1. What was this natural resource the Once-ler found? Truffula tree 2. What was the product? Thneed 3. How was it used by buyers? Shit, sock, hat, carpets, pillows, sheets, curtains, etc. Multi-purposed for endless things. 4. What did the Lorax want to know of the Once-ler? Why he is cutting the tree down (Stewardship, speaking for the trees). 5. How did Once-Ler answer? He only cutted down one tree, everybody needed a thneed. He thinks that if he didn’t exploit he environment someone else would 6. Name an example of technology that YOU can use at home. Television 7. Name an example of technology that YOU can use at school? Laptop 8. Name an example of technology that an adult might use at their work. Blackboard. 9. What technology did the Once-ler use to increase the production of thneeds? Increased workforce with more family. Uses a Super-axe-hacker to cut four trees at once. Created four roadways with machine. 10. How did the production of threads affect the key natural resource, truffula trees? Trees were all cut down beyond point of regrowth. 11. Name the animals. Humming-fish, Brown Bar-ba-loots, Swomee Swans 12. Explain why these animals needed truffula trees. Produce fruit eaten by Bar-ba-loots and provided shade. Swans perched themselves in the tree. 13. Waste Byproduct-1? Glump 14. Waste Byproducts? Smog from factory. 15. Were the waste byproducts that resulted from the making of thneeds harmful...
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...Based on LORAX movie, the main character in this movie is “Ted”. He is a primary school boy who at first tries to seduce a woman who was in secondary school named Audrey. So, in conjunction with the birthday Audrey, he tries to realize the dream of Audrey to see the real tree it is Truffula tree. Then, with strong effort, he meets with someone who still keeps the last seeds, The Once- Ler. He is the people who are liable to destroy the truffula tree because of greedy but he aware of their mistake and he assumption that it is too late to back. But, The Lorax person who are the guardian of the forest try to realize The Once- Ler and always said one day someone will realize that the important of trees in the life. After hearing the grief story of The Once- Ler, Ted aware of the great responsible that must be done is not just a gift for a loved women but outside of the framework of the seeker is trying to convince and enlighten the public to preserve the environment. Secondly, the character of the cause of environmental damage. The Once-Ler, it is the name of causes of environment damage. At first he was just a child out of the village migrated to other places to be a successful entrepreneur in the field of fashion and so on. Started with he goes one destination truffula forest, the trees suitable for his product. His offense is cutting down trees called The Lorax (God Forest) who loved the environment to prevent forest god but got ignored warnings by Once- Ler. So he is bothered...
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...“Crash!” “Smack!” “Thump!” Imagine a world with no trees, nor plants or animals. Everyday the citizens of Thneedville would have to pay for fresh air. That’s how things were in the movie “The Lorax” after all the Truffula Trees had been cut down. This powerful messaged movie by Dr. Seuss explains about a selfish man who wants money, named the Once-ler and an interesting character who speaks for the trees, named the Lorax. In the movie, the Lorax tries to stop the Once-ler from making a bad decision that could ruin the lives of many people. This shows that the Lorax was determined, caring and depressed. One trait the Lorax has is determination. For example, the Lorax kept reminding the once-ler to leave and to not cut down trees. This is an...
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...The Lorax A motion film called The Lorax provides a realistic look at how overconsumption has affected the small fictional town of Thneedville. In this town you have big houses, and even bigger cars, plastic trees, air quality so bad that you have to purchase the air you breathe. You soon get a glimpse of what is beyond the “city limits” of Thneedville which is utter destruction. Caused by the overconsumption of people and a man who sought to profit from people in the town. We are a nation of consumers who suffer from a horrible disease known as “Affluenza” the disease of over consumption. And Affluenza has plagued us to the point where children’s movies are being made about over consumption and spending. The lyrics of the opening song of The Lorax could be the theme song of the how Affluenza has plagued people today in America “With brand new cars, and houses and lawns”(Powell & Paul, 2012). This film had many examples from the book we are reading in class. The example of how houses are getting bigger so people can have a place to store more “stuff”. The reason why is because people continue to buy more things that they don’t need. This movie made me think of the main character Ted and once the movie progressed I connected him to John Beal from our reading. For very different reasons they both sought out to save, replenish, and protect the trees. For Ted it was so he could impress the girl he liked which then also stopped a greedy cooperate figure...
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