Comparing The Lorax 'And Jabberwocky' By Lewis Carroll

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There are many pieces of literature that are written in a very beautiful and sophisticated manner. There are many poems and stories that feel similar or you feel like the main character is trying to do the same thing. After you feel like something is similar between two pieces of literature you start to compare and contrast them . One of the many amazing pieces of literature are The poem Jabberwocky(written by Lewis Carroll) and a book called The Lorax( written by Dr.Seuss.) Both poems have a very interesting story and weird ways of explaining things. Like any other piece of literature these two have similarities and differences. In this essay I will be talking to you about the setting, figurative language and the conflict in both of these …show more content…
The boy in the poem Jabberwocky slays the Jabberwocky because he wants to prevent the damage the beast causes. Also, in the story Lorax , the Lorax is trying to prevent Once-ler from chopping down trees in other words trying to prevent habitat destruction and …show more content…
Both the Jabberwocky and The Lorax have a very unique setting

In the poem Jabberwocky the setting is in a very thick forest which feel would be dark due to all the trees. The location/setting of this poem is very eerie. I feel like author did this so that the reader would feel the suspense in a better way. So you can assume that the setting of this poem is in a eerie and thick forest.
In the story The Lorax the setting is a very happy place with lots of pretty trees and lots of joyful animals. However, towards the end of the story the setting becomes more sad and creepy due to the pollution and declining population. So you can conclude from that the story’s setting is at first joyful and then it becomes creepy.

You can conclude from these settings that the places where the poem/ story are happening aren’t similar. Therefore, they are different.

In this essay I talked about the similarities and differences between the poem Jabberwocky and the story Lorax. The topics I have discussed are Setting, Conflict and Figurative Language. Out of the three topics I selected the Conflict and Figurative Language were the one that were similar between both pieces of

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