Kids and adults can identify with Ted and learn that one person can make a difference one just needs to care “A whole awful lot”.
The idea that protecting and preserving our environment cannot happen without personal ownership by all is delivered by the character of the young boy “Ted”, the one who cared enough to try and change things, and managed to find hope in the end by planting the last Trufulla seed, and growing a real tree once again.
Unless we start caring and changing things, we too will end up trying to survive in a dirty wasteland and a barren landscape. Suess said so 40 years ago and it still applies today. “Unless Someone Like You Cares a Whole Awful Lot, Nothing is Going to Get Better. As I became deeply engrossed in the tale, and even more so deeply touched and inspired by all the powerful messages portrayed within the plot, I found myself tracking the lessons we could all learn from the Lorax the following are just a few:
However, the tale is not all gloomy there is hope in the end and lessons to be learned to avoid such fate. In fact, the story contains many common components found in environmental issues we are facing today: deforestation, air and water pollution, lack of natural resources, animals critically endangered due to human activities, and the destruction of the ecosystem biodiversity all those serious issues are represented in the story and are predicted to lead down this road. Thneeds were a useless product, just a piece of fabric that everyone thought was cool for a while worn as a hat or worn in other ways, and then they went out of fashion and nobody cared for them anymore.īottled air, inflatable trees? Ridiculous as it may seem, I could not help feeling that this is not too far off from what we could soon face. With the help of his grandma who still remembers the trees, he seeks out the Once-ler the old hermit tells the tale of how he broke a promise to “The Lorax”-the mystical creature who is guardian of all the trees-and cut down all the trufulla trees so he could sell the populace his briefly trendy “Thneeds”. Seuss tale takes place in and around Thneedville, a sparkling clean town where everything is synthetic, trees are inflatable and made in factories, animals are long gone, water is poisonous and the air is so polluted that everyone breathes bottled air sold to them by a creepy little villain.Ī young girl named Audrey longs for a real tree, and 12-year-old Ted is determined to find her one. However, 40 years later, the messages of conservationism are more relevant than ever. The tale focuses on the plight of the environment and the risks that industrialization and corporate greed can have, which at the time the book was written were only starting to become apparent. Seuss's 1971 picture book, which unfortunately most of us here in Egypt have not had the chance to read, the story seems so ahead of its time one might even call it visionary.
Watch the lorax movie movie#
When I took my three-year-old daughter to watch the 3D animation movie “The Lorax”, I was expecting to see a fun kid’s movie with a light-hearted attempt at delivering an environmental awareness message to the youngsters one that I was sure my daughter-between dancing enthusiastically through the musical numbers and munching eagerly on her popcorn-would probably fail to notice.īased on Dr.
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