Comparing The Lorax And Easter's End

Throughout history every civilization has come and gone within some given interval. Although it may seem that we always seem to be improving with time, all of these cultures have limited resources and will inevitably make mistakes to cause their downfall. The stories “The Lorax” and “Easter’s End” are two different tales of arbitrary humans who abuse resources and plague their surrounding environments. “The Lorax” is a classic children’s novel by Dr. Seuss. At first glance, “The Lorax” may get written off as another enormously popular book by the great Dr. Seuss that we all read as kids. The story delves into so much more than mystical beings living in a fantasy world like usual. The story consists of the Once-ler, a man who sets out to make money from his own business, truffula trees, an imaginary form of tree with durable material, and the Lorax, the defender of the trees. After the Once-ler discovered the great endless fields of truffula trees, he quickly launched …show more content…
In both stories we learn of a very healthy and abundant natural environment that supports much life. We also than learn of what people can do to these environments that we live in if we are not careful. The Once-ler and the islanders both start off just by using the resources the best they can to stay alive and prosper. This quickly grows however, into a careless and rash need to take more and more without any regulation. The Once-ler does not cut down the trees according to any growth rate of them, thus destroying the entire forest and species of tree. The islanders squander all of their natural resources and plunge their island into a barren, cannibalistic chaos. While both of these stories have very different results and lessons to be learned, they have many overlapping similarities and tell us valuable information that is relevant to the planet that we are living