Reading and Me

One of my favorite reading memories is reading Dr. Seuss's The Lorax with my dad at our cabin near the Boundry Waters.  Every night we would go to the main lodge where they had books as well as checkers and other games, and read the book. 

The book is told to a small boy wondering about what the land once was like. It all started when the narrator cuts down a tree to start a factory.  From the stump of the tree out pops the Lorax, a little guy who tells him not to chop down the trees.  If he does a whole chain of events will happen, the bears will go hungry for their food comes from the trees that the factory cuts down to keep running.  Eventually everything in the land is wrong.  The fish stop swiming, the bears stop their happy ways and basically the land is ruined from the factory.  At the end of the book when the land is depleated of the once bountiful trees the Lorax gets so disgusted that he leaves never to be seen again.

The moral of the story is to save the enviornment.