Research Paper On The Lorax

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The Lorax, directed by Chris Renaud. This adaptation was based on the book that Dr. Seuss wrote, still called the Lorax in 2012. The lorax was originally created in 1972, it was established to share awareness of the environment and deforestation. In the movie, Ted decides to try and find the last tree of Thorneville in order to gain affection from his love interest, Audrey. However, there are no more trees because a man named the Onceler chopped down all the trees in order to gain success for his business. Ted has to find a way to find a tree and plant it. The social issue in this movie is deforestation, all of nature has died and all of the animals have fled to find a place that they were able to live on. Ted, the queen of the Lorax, is going to find the last tree because he wanted to gain affection from Audrey. He had to go outside of his town, in order to find the octopus and find out what happened to the trees and where he could find them. However, Ted faces many challenges along the way, such as how O’Hare, fears that Ted is threatening his business, which is selling bottles of fresh air, by trying to find a tree. O’Hare does his best to stop Ted from growing a tree. The real reason that Ted was originally destined to go on this journey was to save the town as the air was getting worse without the trees and the land was dying. …show more content…

Nobody cared when the Onceler destroyed the land and chopped down all the trees because they were happy as they were. No one was curious or cared about the outside world. Only Audrey, Ted and his Grandma cared because their world was so polluted that they had to buy bottles of air. Society didn’t mind as they had stayed in Thuneville all their life and had never seen the condition of the outside world. At first they were indifferent because of the need for trees when they had plastic ones. He did his best to get help so that he could plant the tree and save their

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