Close echoes"And I first saw the trees!
The Truffula Trees! The bright-colored tufts of the Truffula Trees!" (Seuss, Dr. Six By Seuss. New York: Random House, 1991. 296. Print.) Dr. Seuss uses the repetition of the words "Truffula Trees" to show how awestruck the Once-ler was when he first saw them. Obviously these trees will be important in the rest of the story to draw so much attention to them in their first mention. Using print to match meaning"But those trees! Those trees!
Those Truffula Trees!" (Seuss, Dr. Six By Seuss. New York: Random House, 1991. 300. Print.) Dr. Seuss is placing extra empahsis on the trees by placing them in italics showing the deep emotion the narrator is feeling when speaking about them. "'And I'm asking you, sir, at the top of my lungs' - he was very upset as he shouted and puffed - 'What's that THING you've made out of my Truffula tuft?'" (Seuss, Dr. Six By Seuss. New York: Random House, 1991. 307. Print.) Dr. Seuss is using italics here to show the complete shock the Lorax has over what the Once-ler has done to his tree. "'And, for your information, you Lorax, I'm figgering on biggering and BIGGERING and BIGGERING and BIGGERING, turning MORE Truffula Trees into Thneeds which everyone, EVERYONE, EVERYONE needs!'" (Seuss, Dr. Six By Seuss. New York: Random House, 1991. 333. Print.) Dr. Seuss uses a variety of text matching in this one sentence. As the Once-ler talks about expansion the words gradually grow in size and then the extra emphasis on how important he feels Thneeds are by using capitalization and italics when saying everyone needs a Thneed. |
intentional vaugeness"'Now that you're here,
the word of the Lorax seems perfectly clear. UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.'" (Seuss, Dr. Six By Seuss. New York: Random House, 1991. 342. Print.) Dr. Seuss is very vague in his statement about who cares about what. He leaves it up to the reader to figure out what to care for and why they should. One could infer that they should care about the environment as that was what this story was about but Dr. Seuss leaves this statement vague so it could be used for any one situation or cause, environmental issues included, but not limited to. |