Once there was a city called Thneedville where a man named O'hare ruled the town. He hated plants and flowers. He especially hated trees. There was no living plant in the town for it was plastic, inflatable and electrical. It was like the future of this modern world! There was also a boy named Ted that had a girlfriend named Audrey. Audrey wanted more than anything a living tree. So Ted asked his grandma how to find one. She suggested that he should go and talk to the once-ler. So he went outside of the city and went to the once ler. Then he told Ted what happened to trees. It was all his fault too.
When the once ler was a young and bright man, he decided to find some materials to make products for selling. Then he arrived at a forest that had so many trees that had leafs which were softer than anything and so colorful. The forest filled with bears, fishes and birds! HE started to chop the trees and collect the leafs for making the product called Thneed! It's sewn with the leaves and made into a cloth. It can be used to clean up things, soak up water and use it as a hat. After the first tree was chopped down, the guardian of the forest came called the Lorax and commanded him to leave. But he disagreed.
He once threw his bed with him in it to the river to drift away but the Lorax saw that leaded directly to a water fall! So he saved the once ler's life. Then he left to sell his products the Thneed. But everyone just laughed at him. But suddenly, a woman started to like the product! SO everyone loved the Thneed. Then more trees were chopped and when the last tree was chopped, no one loved the product any more. The animals now left the forest. And then the Lorax went up in to the sky. So the story was finished. Then there was this writing on a stone placed in the first tree that was chopped written "UNLESS". The Lorax must have sent Ted to save the trees!
The once ler then dropped a seed that could make the trees grow back! So Ted planted the seed in the city for everybody to see and many trees grew fast!
Moral: "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. Its not." -Dr.Seuss.
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