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''[[The Lorax]]'' is a story written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss that was first published in
''The Lorax'' was adapted into a TV special in 1972 by [[
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* [[Aesoptinum]]: Truffula trees. You know, the ones for which The Lorax speaks. They're used for making Thneeds.
* [[Ambiguously Human]]: The Once-ler, though only in the sense that you never see any uncovered part of him.
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* [[Dark Reprise]]: The TV special has a whole bunch of these as everyone leaves the land.
* [[Determinator]]: The Lorax gets a speech that illustrates this well in his book's 1972 [[Animated Adaptation]].
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But nobody listens too much, don't you know?
I speak for the trees, and I'll yell and I'll shout
For the fine things on Earth that are on their way out!
They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past,
But sometimes I think progress is progressing too fast!
They say I'm a fool to oppose things like these,
But I'm going to continue to speak for the trees! }}
* [[Downer Ending]]: The story ends with {{spoiler|the forest gone, the animals gone, the settlers gone, the city gone, the factory gone, and the Lorax gone. Only the Once-ler remains, who regrets his actions. However, there is one ray of hope: UNLESS. If the boy can regrow the forest and protect it, maybe the Lorax will come back}}.
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* [[Greed]]: Pretty much the cause of the Once-ler's actions, especially when the Thneeds start to take off.
* [[Green Aesop]]
* [[Harsh Life Revelation Aesop]]: As the Onceler tells the boy who comes to visit him, when no one cares about others, there are dire consequences. Or, as he puts it, "Unless someone like you cares an awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not." The titular character tried to convince the Onceler to not cut down the Truffula trees to make Thneeds because it would hurt the wildlife, including the Humming Fish that choke from the factory fumes. In the TV adaptation, the Onceler keeps saying what is the harm in cutting down one tree, and later justifies that he has to keep making Thneeds so his employees will still have work. Eventually there are no more Truffula trees, the Lorax leaves, and the Onceler's fortune goes up in smoke as his family leaves and he has to shut down the factory. The Onceler was able to save ''one'' Truffula seed and gives it to the child, asking him to care and rebuild the forest. It won't be easy, given the TV adaptation states it will take ten years for the seed to sprout and ten more for it to become a sapling, and one tree by itself can't become a grove. But someone has to try.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Nearly happens in the TV special following the Once-ler's second [[Ignored Epiphany]] (see below). But then, it's averted, ''hard,'' when the Once-ler's secretary informs him that the price of his company's stock had gone up more than $27. At that point, he goes into his tirade.
* [[Heel Realization]]: The Once-ler in the end {{spoiler|after the forest's destruction.}} By the time the boy visits him, he's had plenty of time to reflect on his mistakes.
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* [[Informed Ability]]: In the animated special, the song "Do Do Need a Thneed" lists a number of uses for the Thneeds, including a hammock, a toothbrush holder, a nest, an addition to soup, a grooming item, a dust cloth, a rust remover, a windshield wiper, a viper trap, a tobacco substitute, and a baby's diaper. We never see them used in any of these ways.
** Subverted when we see the first Thneed, as it ''visibly'' changes into a shirt, a sock, a glove, and a hat. Off-screen, it also turns into a pillow and a blanket.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: The Once-ler.
* [[The Musical]]: The TV adaptation.
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* [[Nature Spirit]]: The Lorax.
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: The trailers never bother to tell you that the TV version is a musical with full, three-minute musical numbers.
* [[Humans Are
* [[Scare'Em Straight]]: The entire point of the story is to do this.
* [[Sugar Bowl]]: The land started out as this...
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