Comparing The Lorax And Easter Island

Decent Essays
“The Lorax” and the stories of Easter Island are alike even though one is based on true events and “The Lorax” is a kid’s story by Dr. Suess. Both of these stories involve someone that destroys their own environment and they don’t really care until it’s too late. Both stories show how easy an entire area can suffer if selfish people don’t care about the things around them and they are more worried about themselves. Everyone should care about their environment and do everything possible to protect it.

The key issues in both stories are both areas were once full of trees, animals, fruits and life. The land was nice and green and a good area to live in. When the Onceler and the Polynesians decided to cut down trees, they didn’t stop

Related Documents

  • Superior Essays

    Tiwi People Case Study

    • 1684 Words
    • 7 Pages

    This allows for lush greenery to be ever present as scenery for the Tiwi people. This was not the case where I grew up. As for my scenery, dry grass and the occasional tree is all that is included. There is no concrete evidence of when the Tiwi came into contact with outsiders,…

    • 1684 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Ana-Luic Legend

    • 534 Words
    • 3 Pages

    However, many still think that the Ana-Lu still roam secretly in forests and caves of the Islands. There are actually account of people seeing little people, or little villages, deep on hikes and in the tropical forests. Ultimately the myth has intrigued people enough to read more about plant and forest uses, as well as proper farming and fishing. Which, brings forth a sense of environmental diversity and reminds us that all positive actions should be rewarded and foolish actions punished accordingly, and that all…

    • 534 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Kiwi and Chief go through similar experiences in that they are not able to be as strong or smart as they were in nature, where there was no competition for them. The Bigtree’s relationship with nature made them stronger people…

    • 551 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Easter Island was quite an experience of a new location for settlers and showed the inadequate use of resources that were accessible to the new inhabitants. It showed how desperate and inhumane people became at the extinction of valuable resources on this island. These new owners of land were quickly befallen at the expense of most of their lives and all of the natural resources. The main idea of internal collapse focuses on the issues that man has faced since the beginning of sharpening a stone or stick.…

    • 713 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    This is essey about two diffrent cultures and religions the Native American and Judeo-Christian creation story. These two stories can help us see how diffrent and similar are these two stories. In the beginning we can see how they are diffrent. In the Native American story we have no clue who created the skyworld and people on it,while in Judeo-Christian story we know that God created a world in 7 days.…

    • 487 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Imagine that you were swimming then all of a sudden your eyes are burning and your arms are getting heavy, that’s how some of these penguins felt in these two articles. “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” and “The Seabird Chronicle” both talk about how the beaches that penguins live on are contaminated with a oil spill. “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” and “The Seabird Chronicles” have similarities and differences like similarity in conflict but differences in setting. “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” and “The Seabird Chronicle” both have similarity in conflict.…

    • 513 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    95 million Acres (to be quite precise) Have been set aside just to look nice” (Birkett 6). This quote shows how the people in the fantasy land in the book, have taken the initiative to preserve trees and save them and the multiple animals that reside either in or by them. Overall, the children’s book “The Truax” highlights a major environmental issue that most of the world faces daily through its plot.…

    • 606 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The natives were able to easily escape and hid in the forest because it was familiar terrain. This was where indentured servants came to the Americas. Since the…

    • 741 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Hawaiians didn’t have enough money to pay taxes and the people who could pay tax was the foreigners. The makaainana lacked knowledge of the new laws so it was tough for them to understand. Not to mention they missed deadlines and didn’t have enough money (Cachola). Once the land is unavailable, they wouldn’t not have resources like food, water, and shelter which is an adversity. This would lead to the foreigners receiving additional land…

    • 470 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Kamehameha Leadership

    • 557 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Kamehameha had purchased at least six ships before he passed away and bought guns and ammunition which was all worth eight thousand dollars in sandalwood. With sandalwood being a big market at the time, its numbers started to dwindle, and so Kamehameha decided to place a kapu on the sandalwood. Luckily, buying ships, guns and ammunition never changed after the unification of the Hawaiian Islands, because by buying the ships, Kamehameha and his people could use the ships for future trading, and military purposes. However, one of the many changes that had occurred s a kapu on sandalwood, which Kamehameha had fortunately introduced, because with sandalwood demand on the rise, Kamehameha decided to place a kapu on the sandalwood trees before they totally went extinct…

    • 557 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In the story “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss, talks about a man called the Once-ler that had a new invention that he thought everyone would want, which was made of truffula trees. The Once-ler became greedy causing animals to leave the land and cause the extinction of the truffula trees. At the end of the story, the Once-ler regrets his actions. The three main points are the Once-ler being…

    • 772 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    With many forests cleared, the farming land available at the time…

    • 570 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In my speech, I will be describing the trials and triumphs of solitude, and the bittersweetness that come after. In both The Diary of Anne Frank and Island of the Blue Dolphins, there is a time of isolation with both times of optimism, and also pessimism. In both Island of the Blue Dolphins and The Diary of Anne Frank, the book starts off with an average girl of her time and place without anything to write a book about, but then their lives take a turn for the worst. In Island of the Blue Dolphins, Karana, the main character, loses her father in a unnecessary battle over otter pelts and what is a fair share.…

    • 498 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the creation myth “The World on Turtle’s Back” the Iroquois Native Americans describe their beliefs about the creation of the world and humanity. The myth exhibits many archetypal settings and greatly resembles the story of Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis. The differences between the two creation stories’ archetypal settings, however, illustrate the greatest difference between the two cultures; monotheism and polytheism. Both “The World on Turtle’s Back” and the Book of Genesis involve a tree that connects heaven to earth. In the Iroquois story, it is the “Great Tree… [that] had grown there forever….…

    • 753 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The stories of Genesis and Popol Vuh attempt to explain the creation of Earth and mankind. Although these stories have many similarities, they do differ in many ways because of the different religions they come from. Right from the beginning there are obvious similarities between the two. They both references a God or multiple Gods who create the world and everything in it including humans.…

    • 554 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays