As readers, we learn next to nothing about the boy himself, other than that he is curious enough to pay the price of fifteens cents, one nail and the shell of a very, very, very old snail. The young boyĪ young boy ventures into the far part of town to listen to the Once-ler's story. Something obviously starts nibbling away at that unseen part of the barely-seen capitalist. Some suggest he may also represent the voice of the Once-ler’s conscience. According to the Lorax, he “speaks for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.” So, while a literal manifestation-as befitting his very precise description-the Lorax is really the voice of environmental consciousness. He appears out of the stump of one of the trees the Once-ler has chopped down, demanding to know what goes on here. The title character is short, brown, old and bossy. It is also the Once-ler, however, who holds the key to redemption: at the end of the book, he hands his listener the last Truffula Tree seed, in the hopes that the forest will be planted again. It is through his voice that we hear this tale of greed. The Once-ler causes the deforestation of the Truffula Trees and thus the disappearance of all the creatures in the forest. He is never pictured, other than his green arms.
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