While writing entertaining children’s books, Dr. Seuss also wanted to express very distinct social messages. One message that he sends in one is about greedy can lead to lessons learned the hard way of losing valuable friends. He does this in The Lorax in The Sneetches.The Lorax is about an inventor that chops down a tree and goes money hungry and eventual chops an entire forest down.The Sneetches is about two types of Sneetches ones with no star on their bellies and ones with and they get swindled by a salesman and have no more money.The theme with both of the stories is greed, in The Lorax the once-lers invention made him money hungry and ended up making him go bankrupt. While in the Sneetches the sales man swindled ever Sneetches out of greed and took all their money.
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Eventually he chopped down an entire forest down out of greed. In the Lorax the once-ler is telling the Lorax that he will never stop growing his factories and making money.
“And, for your information, you Lorax, I'm figgering
On biggering and BIGGERING and BIGGERING and BIGGERING, turning MORE Truffula Trees into Thneeds which everyone, EVERYONE, EVERYONE needs!"
And at that very moment, we heard a loud whack!
From outside in the fields came a sickening smack of an axe on a tree. Then we heard the tree fall.
The very last Truffula Tree of them all!”
In this quote Dr, Seuss is shown here that the greed can make you heartless and make you not care about anyone in a rampage of greed. In The Sneetches Sylvester McMonkey McBean seems to want to help the Sneetches be he really only wants to swindle all of the Sneetches. He did this out of greed. Sylvester has just swindled everyone of the Sneetches and he is driving off to wherever he came from.
Then, when every last cent
Of their money was
Eventually he chopped down an entire forest down out of greed. In the Lorax the once-ler is telling the Lorax that he will never stop growing his factories and making money.
“And, for your information, you Lorax, I'm figgering
On biggering and BIGGERING and BIGGERING and BIGGERING, turning MORE Truffula Trees into Thneeds which everyone, EVERYONE, EVERYONE needs!"
And at that very moment, we heard a loud whack!
From outside in the fields came a sickening smack of an axe on a tree. Then we heard the tree fall.
The very last Truffula Tree of them all!”
In this quote Dr, Seuss is shown here that the greed can make you heartless and make you not care about anyone in a rampage of greed. In The Sneetches Sylvester McMonkey McBean seems to want to help the Sneetches be he really only wants to swindle all of the Sneetches. He did this out of greed. Sylvester has just swindled everyone of the Sneetches and he is driving off to wherever he came from.
Then, when every last cent
Of their money was