Have you ever heard the words “Manxome” or “Grickle?” If not, then you haven’t read the poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll or the book “The Lorax,” by Dr. Seuss. I will be comparing and contrasting these two stories. First of all, “The Lorax” and “Jabberwocky” both have nonsense words, meaning that they contain words that people need to use context clues to figure out the definition of. If you have words like “vorpal” or “borogrove” on their own, you can’t find its definition. But when you read it in the poem “Jabberwocky,” you at least have some idea of what it means. Second, “The Lorax” has a hero, but the hero is not very clear. It can be the kid that Once Ler told the story of the Lorax, or it can be the Lorax himself. The kid is a curious child, brave enough to leave his home only to hear the story of the Lorax. The Lorax is small, but very brave. Despite his size, he will protect everything in the environment until there is nothing left to protect. In “Jabberwocky,” the hero is the young man who has set out to kill the Jabberwock. He is courageous because he left his comfortable spot to stop the evil Jabberwock in its territory. …show more content…
In “The Lorax,” before Once Ler came, the Lorax and all of the animals were jolly and energetic. When Once Ler started his Thneed business, the environment got worse and worse. The tone then became very depressing. You watch the animals leave, the trees get cut down, and the black, polluted sky. Then, after everything is gone, and there is almost no hope left, the Lorax lifts himself into the sky. “Jabberwocky” is much different from that. The hero sets out on a suspenseful journey to kill the Jabberwock. When the man kills the Jabberwock, he returns to his father and the poem becomes happy and
Dictionopolis is a make-believe world of Dictionopolis from The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and is located near the “Foothills of Confusion.” It makes sense that a land of words and language would be located near a place of confusion because words can be very confusing, especially when you have gotten rid of pattern, sense and logic. Dictionaries are designed to help explain words however, without Rhyme and Reason words do not make sense and everything is confusing. The author points out some of the most confusing things in the English language in this part of the story such as synonyms, homonyms and idioms: words can have different means, two words can mean the same thing, words that sound alike can be spelled differently and mean
Words have a way of changing the way we view the world. They can completely alter our perception of what is true and what is false. Take the tale of Skidmore and Manchester, as dictated in the story ‘The Curse of the Poisoned Pretzel.’ The way the author portrays the character of Skidmore shows just how easily words can change how we see someone by making you believe that Skidmore is guilty of his brother‘s murder, without ever formally saying so.
Dr. Seuss, also known as Theodore Seuss, has written many poems as well as short stories, and is considered one of the greatest children’s author in history. His silly stories are able to excite children in ways that make them want read. His Wife says,” Ted doesn’t sit down to write for children. He writes to amuse himself;” Little do children know that often, in his stories, there is a lot of political undertone, a few examples include The Lorax, Yertle the Turtle, The Sneethces, and The Butter Battle Book. If you were to really critique some of his books or poems, you might see that some of his themes wouldn’t seem to pertain to children. But what he’s doing, is hoping that they will understand the main idea of the story enough that it challenges them to stand against the crowd of judgment and evil. Take notice of the issues around them, and make a change. He feels that they deserve to know about the issues, just as much as adults do. He is showing them early on, telling them that they do not need adults to make a difference.
As nature is destroyed the connection between the land the people is destroyed as well resulting in the loss of culture. In The Rabbits, as the invaders urbanize more land the native numbats become sad and devastated over the lost of land. Their culture is that they are part of the land and the nature, this means as they lose the land they are also
The Barbiloo bears had to leave their homes because the trees provided food for the bears. Also the birds were forced to leave after the air had become contaminated with awful gases that filled the air. The fish also played victim, the water had also been contaminated from all the toxins being thrown into the water. The Lorax and The Silent Spring tell close to the same story and have the same story. They look at what having factories, communities and, humans and what it can do in an environment without out our
the right words: This book features easy to read writing, with a few advanced words for emerging readers to be able to stretch their comprehension. It rhymes, has humour, has a fantastic pace to the story and allows a great scope to personalize the story with vocal changes and intonation when reading it aloud.
The Lorax written by Dr. Seuss is a classic children’s book about a mysterious forest creature named the Lorax. The Lorax speaks for the trees; he shows up when the Once-ler, a young entrepreneur, starts to cut down trees to make a thneed. The Once-ler tells a young unnamed boy the story about why the Lorax left and why there are no more trees. At the end, the boy receives the last Truffula Tree seed from the Once-ler. The Lorax film is about a young boy named Ted who wants to find out about trees after his crush Audrey said that she would marry the boy who got her a Truffula Tree seed. Ted goes to the Once-ler’s house. The Once-ler tells Ted about why the Lorax left and why there are no more trees. At the end of the film, Ted receives the last Truffula Tree seed. He and Audrey plant the seed in the middle of Thneedville. Truffula Trees start to grow again and the Lorax returns to speak to the Once-ler. The Lorax is a great, cautionary tale. According to Puig, “Anyone older than 10 can discern that herein lies a parable of green vs. greed. All ages are likely to find the cautionary tale entertaining as well as illuminating. Some might even find it galvanizing” (par. 10).
Like many do today, the creature goes above and beyond the limitations of his world to show others around him that he should not receive poor treatment because of his differences. By exploring the language of the villagers, the monster is able to use the negativity from his surroundings as his motivations to learn how to explain his story to
In Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, many characters develop an understanding of the power of words which results in many characters being negatively impacted by the theme.
Trying to send a message of an imminent gloomy future is often not well received. This is where Dr. Seuss decided to bring in the story of the Lorax. The Lorax is a children’s book that focuses on the story of the once-ler, and the destruction of the land
Dick immerses his readers into an unknown world from the beginning of the story. He introduces new vocabulary that is only present in the world he has created to allow the reader to reach for an understanding of this society. “Outside stood the Optus, his arms folded, his face sunk in gloom”, “Why not? You people can go out into the veldt and track it all down again”, “It’s a wub”. This language introduced within the first page of the story serves to immerse the reader into the created fictional world. Conflictingly, familiar terms are also used by Philip K. dick to allow the reader to comprehend aspects of his imaginary world by allowing the reader to associate what is in the story with their prior knowledge. Dick uses terms such as Mars and Earth to allow the reader to associate the characters’ location with planets and space giving the story a concrete setting. He also relates the wub to a pig to give readers an image to base the wub’s appearance around. Furthermore, Philip K. Dick uses adjectives and dialogue to describe the unknown vocabulary added into the story and the surroundings of the characters. “the wub twisted, rubbing its skin off on the smooth chrome walls” and “the wub stood sagging, its great body settling slowly”, are both examples of how Dick uses adjectives to create the image intended for the
When the boy has finally become wise enough to confront the Bear, he realizes that what the Bear stands for is far more important than his killing of the Bear ever could be. He realizes that anyone could attack the Bear and kill it, but in the restraint of the boyhood urge for glory and respect he finds that he has preserved these virtues in himself and the Bear as well.
Overall the vocabulary words didn’t help me understand the passage it was more of the context clues and reading between lines that gave me the purpose of these
In The Lorax, the setting is happy, joyful, and fun. Everything is colorful and there’s not a problem in the world, that is except the Once-ler. In Jabberwocky, the setting is dark, creepy, and makes you feel uncertain. In this story, there are so many problems including, the animals and the boy himself. These two stories settings are still very different.
The existence of living animals not only shows the different social status in the novel but causes changes in Lurie’s life after his disgraceful actions in the urban setting of the novel. Since the beginning, Lurie commits actions that tumble him deeper into disgrace and humiliation, lowering himself to the level of an animal. Lurie is reluctant in the beginning to help out at the animal clinic however after numerous encounters with dogs, Lurie begins to understand others’ suffering instead of focusing on his own. Although animals exist everywhere in the rural areas, “the innate innocence of the animal is represented most intensely through the Animal Welfare League” (Gal 4). The fragility of animals impacts Lurie significantly because it causes Lurie to realize the similarity between him and the dogs, both in disgrace and dishonor.