Guest Review: The Lorax
And Now, a Guest Review of The Lorax By Dr. Seuss as reviewed by JM of Fiction Scribe
“I am the Lorax. I Speak for the trees.�
There aren’t a lot of specific words or phrases from my childhood that continue to stick with me today, but that one from Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax has since the first time it was read to me so long ago.
In his traditional Seuss style, Seuss tells a not-so-traditional tale of tragedy which rivals that of the tale of Juliet and her Romeo. You may think me foolish for comparing the two, but they are both tragedies. We are taken through the terrible destruction of paradise caused by the greed of only one person, the Once-ler, whose name has deeper meaning if you’re willing to look.
In the end of The Lorax, we are offered a bit of hope, as should be the way with any children’s book, but I wonder if the real world will reflect the ending of “Unless� as the book did.
I enjoy books which speak to both the child and the adult, which Seuss accomplishes very nicely in this book. I’m not exaggerating when I say I hold this book up as one of the reasons I became environmentally conscious at such a young age and it stuck.
You’ve probably read The Lorax as a child, but take another look at it and let it touch you like it did when you were a child. In this day and age, we don’t have nearly enough Lorax’s to speak for the trees…
The Lorax, Dr. Seuss, Fiction Scribe
June 1st, 2007 at 7:11 am
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