![]() There were animals, as well, in addition to trees: Brown Bar-ba-loots which, according to the illustration, looked like small scrappy monkeys. The next illustration shows a verdant, lush land, full of "Truffula Trees." The Once-ler confides that he arrived to this land one day in the past, back when the Truffula Trees proliferated. The Once-ler lowers the Whisper-ma-Phone down and begins telling the story, although it is difficult to hear his strange voice over the phone.Īs the story begins, the setting morphs and changes. ![]() If you pay him a motley assortment of valued items, the text notes, he will tell you his secrets by "Whisper-ma-Phone" so as to ensure no one else hears. The illustration shows a pair of eyes peeking out of a boarded-up window on the top floor of the Once-ler's home. Next are a series of questions about the Lorax: what was it? Why was it there? The accompanying illustration betrays the home of some of the answers: the home of the old Once-ler, who is still alive.īut the Once-ler doesn't easily open up to strangers. This, the legend goes, was the old home of the Lorax, before somebody "lifted" it away. The boy pokes his head through the "Grickle-grass" to find a strange stump made out of bricks. A young boy approaches " The Street of the Lifted Lorax," and the story begins. The illustrating shows a town at night, lit up with the lights of inhabitants, on a spooky, barren hill. ![]() The Loraxbegins in a post-apocalyptic setting, a ravaged and desolate urban landscape. ![]()
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