Moral Issues In The Lorax

Voice for the trees Lorax and logger Truax are considered heroes in their respective stories. Despite the two characters having such opposing views on the logging industry, they have many similarities when it comes to the delivery of their message. The Lorax shares a story of a persistent creature named Lorax who is frustrated with the Truffula trees being cut down by the evil Once-Ler. In the Truax a kind, gentle logger explains the countless benefits of logging to the grouchy Guardbark protector of the trees. This essay will compare and contrast the two stories.

You probably noticed changes in the environment as the Once-ler went about the business of making thneeds. You might, for example, remember that the Lorax complained about the “smoggy air” caused by the Once-ler’s factory. The smoggy air is an environmental problem. An environmental problem occurs when the condition of something or someone in the natural environment is threatened by a change. The air was clean and fresh before the Once-ler’s activities; but pollution made it dirty and smelly. That is, the

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss depicts a world ravaged by deforestation and suffering from other environmental crises. In the town of Thneedville, an aspiring capitalist begins to sell his new product and as a result of booming business, the cornerstone of his business pays the price. The trees, the only natural resource used in production, are harvested to the point of extinction. The lack of trees leads to soil erosion, air pollution, and species extinction. While this is a children’s tale and Dr. Seuss’s illustration may be quite extreme, it is a reality for future generations of our planet. Human involvement in ecosystems by clearing land for urban development, logging, and agriculture have all exacerbated the rate of decline in the region’s natural systems. The deforestation of rainforests for the cultivation of palm oil is causing the possible extinction of orangutans and exacerbating air quality issues in Indonesia.

Seuss’s works, The Lorax and The Sneetches, both speak of important messages. In The Lorax the setting is a world where almost all of the planets trees had been chopped down. Where the protector of the trees, the Lorax, was created from the first Truffula tree being cut down. The character of the Lorax represents the voice and life force of the Truffula trees. He’s a static character, commanding, perspective, and relentless just like nature, yet falls at the hands of the greedy humans. The character of Ted represents change and the comprehension of human’s mistakes. Ted’s curiosity of the Truffula trees leads him on an adventure to finding out what happened to all of the trees only to realize the mistakes that humans made. He learns the importance of trees to the in their lives and learns that if no one cares nothing will ever get better in their polluted world. Overall the story speaks of mindless human consumption and environmental

The Lorax was published in 1971. It was about the Lorax and the Once-Ler in a truffula tree forest. There was a big conflict because the Once-Ler chopped down lots and lots of the truffula trees. He chopped down the last growing truffula tree. Then a kid comes to the Once-ler’s house and hears the whole story. Then he realized the word “Unless” on a rock. The Once-Ler then sent the last ever truffula tree seed to the boy. The Once-Ler said “Plant a new truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air. Grow a forest.” Dr. Seuss wanted the kids to see pollution is bad for you and all the living things. That is why Dr. Seuss is more than nonsense words and rhyming.

As the story moves along Sam out the elder in different situations to see if he would eat the green eggs and ham, but to Sam’s dismay the elder wouldn’t. Finally after trying and trying and trying Sam gets the elder to try the Green eggs and ham. One of the most popular stories by Dr. Seuss is the classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas. This story became so popular that Universal Studios not only picket it up for a movie, but also a whole theme for their Christmas season theme park. In this story the Grinch loathes Christmas and the who’s with every fiber of his being. The Grinch presents himself as socially cut off from the who’s down in whoville. He lives on top of Mt. Crumpit with his dog Max. All of this hate is because his heart is two sizes too small (and this time he’ll keep it off). He finally had enough of the Who’s bangboozaling and clangclangaling so he devised a plan to steal Christmas. After Santa Clause came and delivered all the presents to the houses he would sneak in, in his Santa Clause suit and steal every present, every light, every decoration, every tree, and all of the food for the feast. He even stole the roast beast! He would empty the houses one by one and he didn’t leave anything. Not even a crumb big enough for a mouse. So as he got done with emptying the houses and was about to dump everything over Crumpit he heard a noise, a weird

While The Lorax by Dr. Suess was a fictional story and the story of the Polynesian people on Easter Island was nonfictional they both displayed examples of environmental problems that are still around today. There are several disguised messages dispersed throughout the story of The Lorax that teach us what can happen if we are greedy of our earth’s natural resources. Likewise, the Polynesian people exhausted their natural resources; however, people today can learn from their mistakes and know how to handle these issues as they arise.

In the story, Once-ler discovers the resource, truffula trees, and uses it as the main product of his business. After his destruction of a truffula tree, he’s then warned by the Lorax to cease his actions. Nevertheless, the Once-ler fails to recognize his concern and the dowry of his actions began to surface. The atrocities that occurred due to his operation resulted in deforestation and pollution, which inevitably created a egregious environment that was no longer habitual to the inhabitants of the area. Despite his actions, the Once-ler does

Seuss addresses a growing crisis by employing nonsensical words and images, such as a Thneed, "a Fine-Something-That-All-People-Need." The greedy Once-ler and his factories that sully the sky artfully inform the reader about the dangers of pollution, extinction, and deforestation. However, Seuss never mentions these buzzwords. Instead, he uses a magical

Dr. Seuss displays an alternate universe where the Lorax is the speaker for the Truffala Trees. One day an aspiring entrepreneur, the Once-ler, discovered how versatile the trees really were and began to distribute the product. The Once-ler calls the Truffala Trees byproduct, Thneed; the public quickly admires the product. Thneed was made from Truffala Trees and due to the demand for it, Truffala Trees were quick to dwindle in numbers. In ladder years, a young boy hears about the almost extinct trees and tries to find out why they are no longer are abundant. The young boy finds the Once-ler, who tells him “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot nothing is going to get better it's not” (Dr. Seuss) Deforestation and the destruction

Seuss. In the book, The Lorax, he starts off with a question to intrigue interest, “What was the Lorax? And why was it there? And why was it lifted and taken somewhere from the far end of town where the Grickle-grass grows? The old Once-ler still lives here. Ask him. He knows.”(Seuss, 1971), you don’t think anything of this introduction where you will get a whole life lesson on your choices from this, but you do. Farther into the book, you start to see the effects of the factory, greed, and production of the ‘thneed’, ''I am the Lorax," he coughed and he whiffed. He sneezed and he snuffled. He snarggled. He sniffed. “Once-lerl" he cried with a cruffulous croak. "Once-lerl You're making such smogulous smoke! My poor Swomee-Swans ... why, they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat.” (Seuss, 1971). This bit of text shows the affect of ignorance. In our current day, we are the Once-ler. We are the people destroying our enviroment. Will it really go as far as it did in The Lorax? Or will we come to stop

he Lorax, by Dr. Seuss is a light-hearted but cautionary tale with a critically important message. If we do not collectively take responsibility for the stewardship of the environment, then our own world will soon be like the one that the Lorax left behind. Left to the devices of greed-based business interests, the resources of our world are being consumed at an abominable rate. And soon, they will all be gone. So while the Once-ler did eventually see the error of his greedy ways, it was already close to too late for his world.

Dr. Seuss is a children’s book author. His most famous works are Cat In The Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. A pattern that people have noticed in his books is that they incorporate messages about the problems in the world. Books like the Lorax, the Butter Battle Book, The Star-Belly Sneetches, and Gertrude McFuzz. In fact, that’s what we’re going to be discussing today. This essay will be going into more depth on 3 books that cover the social issues of environmentalism or deforestation, racism, and wanting to change yourself to fit other’s standards.

A fiercesome title named the tragedy of the commons by: Garrett Hardin and a child's book known as the Lorax by Dr. Seuss. What could they possibly have in common? They show the importance of accepting our social responsibilities by suppressing our invisible hands and making our finite world infinite.

The Lorax as an environmental study, then we can connect the themes in the story to