For Environmental Literature analysis, I chose The Lorax written by Dr.Seuss, first published in 1971. The reason why I chose this book for this assignment is, even thought The Lorax is a children’s book, I believe the book gives messages and warns us about protecting our environment. My topic for my blog is environment protection and conservation. Therefore, I thought this book relates to the topic for my blog and well addresses the environment protection and conservation.
In The Lorax, the plot addresses the ways in which it is very influential to viewers. The plot is about Once-ler tells his story of how his town is ruined because of him. He tells a young boy that he ruined the town by cutting down all the “Truffula trees”. Even thought Lorax, a speaker for the trees, warned Once-ler, not to cut down the trees, he did not listen and cut down the very last Truffula tree to get raw material for him and he led the town to a disaster. The plot in this story is very similar to a real life we live in. We ruin environment for our own goods and ignore the message that environment is giving to warn us. There are messages such as global warming that the environment is giving us but we have not stopped ruining the environment.
The intended audience for this literature is to children since this book is a children’s book. However, the message in the book also applies to not only children but also adults. Moreover, adults are one who needs to protect environment and put into actions. The message this book is giving is effective because by making it into a children’s book, children can learn about how we should protect our environment.
This book has beautiful drawings about our nature along with the story. This form of creative expression create an understanding of environmental experience to children, If it is a novel about environment, children can be hard to understand and feel the message from the book, but by putting drawings it gives children an easy way to understand about environment protection and conservation.
Environment protection and conservation can be dealt with conventional, institutional ways. Creative expression such as books facilitates the expression of the message to the public. There are a lot of institutional ways of this topic already, but it is hard to get people’s attentions who are not interested. Books are one of the ways that can give message to the public who are not interested about environment because even though they are not interested, they can get the message through books.
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