When a fiction author writes a story, their ideas often derive from situations of our everyday lives. The ability to take the mundane, and turn it into something so unique, is part of what makes these fiction writers so talented. With this ability, a writer has the power to intentionally, or unintentionally, make powerful statements about the world we live in. Dr. Seuss was an author who was known for writing incredibly imaginative children's stories. Although a lot of his stories were intended to simply entertain, he occasionally wrote fictional pieces that held tremendous significance to the real world. His story "The Lorax," is one of such examples. In "The Lorax," a man, named the Once-ler, tells the story of his life to a young boy. The story spoke of when the Once-ler was a young man and what he did in order to become wealthy. As the young Once-ler was traveling this fictional world, looking for ways he could become rich, he discovered a forest full of colorful fluffy "truffula trees." He decided to cut down these trees in order to make a new product, which he named the "Thneed." This was a piece of clothing that could do just about anything. The Once-ler was warned by the Lorax, that if he kept chopping down the trees and building factories than their land would be ruined. Despite these warnings, the Once-ler continued to feed his greed and continue chopping down the trees. Eventually the entire forest was barren and there were no more trees to chop down, so the Once-ler was left with no resources and their land was ruined. The Once-ler learned in this imaginary world that destroying the land around him had long-term detrimental effects. This principle of having respect for nature can certainly be applied to the priorities of all the big businesses of today. Just like the Once-ler, bug businesses choose to ignore nature's warnings of global warming, climate change, etc. so they can peacefully reap the temporary benefits of