Seuss's Magical Message

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Theodor Seuss Geisel has become an iconic figure among people worldwide. Most people do not know who Thomas Seuss Geisel is until they here his professional name, “Dr. Seuss”. Dr. Seuss uses his fame to get his message across; he knows that people know his stories so he puts messages in them such as environmentalism in The Lorax. The messages he sends are strong and cover different issues. You would not expect to find the messages he sends in his books to be found in children’s books.
Coming up with award winning stories does not happen by simply sitting around staring off in to space. Dr. Seuss did different things while in the process of creating his stories. After all, he was just a regular person like everyone else. He went to school, he went on trips with his family, and he had other life experiences and events as well. Dr. Seuss started off as Theodore Seuss Geisel, was not actually a doctor but that would be the name that he was called when he was famous. The way that Seuss came up with the story of The Lorax, was while he and his wife were on a trip in Kenya and he was sitting at the pool. “Seuss saw “workmen cutting down trees” and thought, “They can’t cut down my Dr. Seuss trees!” He named these trees “Truffula Trees,” and invented the Lorax, a small, whiskery character who “speaks for the trees” because “the trees have no voices.”(Philip). He observed what was going on in the world around him and created a magical story and with it came a message regarding environmentalism. The Lorax presents a message of environmental conservation. In The Lorax, the Once-ler destroyed all of the Truffula Trees and polluted the entire environment, which forced the Lorax and the animals to find somewhere else to live. The Lorax goes on...

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...hen he wrote the book. Yertle the Turtle, had a political nature to it. Seuss actually admitted that Yertle was a representation of Hitler. Historically, Hitler was not a great man and negatively impacted a large number of people.

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