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The Lorax
Director : Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda
Character :








Setting : ThneedVille
Storyline :
Orientation
Theodore "Ted" Wiggins is an idealistic 12-year-
old boy, who lives in "Thneedville", a walled city that,
aside from its citizens, is completely artificial
everything there is made of plastic, metal, or
synthetics. Ted sets out to find a real tree in order to
impress Audrey, who Ted has a crush on. His
energetic grandmother suggests he speak with the
Once-ler about this.



Complication
Ted : Zac Efron
The Lorax : Danny DeVito
The Once-ler : Ed Helms
Audrey : Taylor Swift
Grammy Norma : Betty White
Mr. O'Hare : Rob Riggle
Ted's Mom : Jenny Slate
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According to the tale Ted's grandmother
mentions, the Once-ler will tell anyone about trees if
brought fifteen cents, a nail, and a shell of great-great-
great grandfather snail. When Ted sets off outside of
Thneedville in search of the Once-ler with these items,
he discovers that the outside world is a contaminated, empty
wasteland. The Once-ler agrees to tell Ted about the trees if he
listens to the story over multiple visits. Ted agrees, even after the
mayor of Thneedville, Aloysius O'Hare, who is also the greedy
proprietor of a bottled oxygen company, confronts the boy and
pressures him to stay in town. Over the course of the film, Ted continues to sneak out
of O'Hare's sight with the encouragement of his grandmother and learns more of the
history of the trees.
Over Ted's various visits, the Once-ler recounts the story of how he departed
his family to make his fortune. After stumbling upon a lush Truffula Tree forest, Once-
ler meets the guardian of the forest, the Lorax, after cutting down a Truffula Tree. The
Lorax urges Once-ler to leave the forest, but Once-ler refuses. Eventually, the Once-
ler promises not to chop another tree down, and the two seem to begin a friendship
of sorts. Then, the young businessman's Thneed invention becomes a major success
and Once-ler's family arrives to participate in the business. At first keeping his
promise, the Once-ler continues Thneed production by harvesting the Truffula Tree
tufts in a sustainable manner. However, soon his greedy and lazy relatives convince
him to resume chopping down the trees, due to how long harvesting the tufts takes.
Over time, the Once-ler's deforestation spirals into a mass overproduction. Flush with
wealth, the Once-ler rationalises his short-sighted needs into arrogant self-
righteousness, and the Lorax's helpless protests do not stop him. The Once-ler pollutes
the sky, river and landscape, until the last Truffula Tree falls. Finally, the Once-ler is
distraught, with the region uninhabitable because of his business's pollution. He is left
ruined and abandoned by his own family and becomes a recluse. The Lorax sends
the animals away to search for a better place to live before departing himself into
the sky, leaving only a stonecut word: "Unless".

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Resolution
At the end of the story, the Once-ler understands the meaning behind the
Lorax's last message, and gives Ted the last Truffula seed in hopes that he can plant
it and make others care about real trees once more. Ted's desire to impress Audrey
is now a personal mission to remind his town of the importance of nature. O'Hare,
determined not to have trees undercut his business, takes heavy-handed steps such
as covering Audrey's nature paintings, closing off the door that Ted uses to see the
Once-ler, and forcibly searching Ted's room for the seed. Ted enlists his family and
Audrey to help plant the seed, which has begun to
germinate after coming into contact with water.
O'Hare and his employees pursue the dissidents until
they manage to elude him and reach the town
center. Unfortunately, their attempt to plant the seed
is interrupted by O'Hare, who rallies the population to
stop them. To convince them otherwise, Ted takes an
earthmover and rams down a section of the city wall
to reveal the environmental destruction outside.
Horrified at the sight and inspired by Ted's conviction,
the crowd defies O'Hare, with his own henchmen
expelling him from the town. The seed is finally planted, and Audrey kisses Ted on the
cheek. Time passes and the land starts to recover; the trees grow, the animals return,
and the redeemed Once-ler is happily reunited with the Lorax.
Coda
Dont be greedy and do something without think the result
Dont break the promise
Dream can be true if you work hard