The Lorax Reading Log

A novel called The Lorax by Dr. Seuss. A well-known author with well-known novels across the whole world, The Lorax is also a very well known novel around the world too. This is a very recommended book and movie to watch as it has various characters and themes all through out the movie and book.

Twelve-year-old Ted lives in a place with no signs of nature; no flowers or trees grow in the town of Thneedville. Ted would very much like to win the heart of Audrey, the girl of his dreams, but to do this, he must find that which she most desires: a Truffula tree. To get it, Ted delves into the story of the Lorax, once the gruff guardian of the forest, and The Once-ler who let greed overtake his respect for nature. 

In this novel, we meet The Lorax near the start of the novel when he first appears from the sky in front of a man who was starting to make a living in cutting down the Truffula tree but The Lorax keeps on telling him about how the wild life needs the trees to survive as he quotes ¨It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become¨. He keeps on trying to reason with the man but it all was not enough so he warns the man that if he doesn't leave by sun set he will set his wrath upon the man but it did not work so he went and never returned.

In the novel The Lorax, we are introduced to a man called The Once-ler a man who sets out to prove to his mother and father that he will become a successful man one day. The Once-ler comes across a forest of Truffula trees that he starts on cutting down and makes a scarf but it was so soft he rung his family to come down and see. The Once-ler's family come down but then they all start cutting down trees and making a profit when all the life is being polluted and while he and his family are overwhelmed with greed. The Once-ler thought he was doing something good but instead he was doing something awful and that's how nature was ruined for Thneedville.