Monday, October 20, 2014
Doctor Seuss has been using children's books for generations to teach us about some overlooked subjects. He does this to attempt to make us aware of what is going on. He uses it to show that if there is a problem we are usually the cause. The Lorax that speaks for the trees is a book that was published in August 12, 1971. He wrote it to make us conscious of the horrible things we are doing to the environment. The book has the Lorax speak for the trees because truly they cannot speak for themselves. Now a days we could use a Lorax to remind ourselves of the path we are headed down. The rainforest is being eaten every day. Yet still the production only increases. It shows the dangers of water pollution too. In the Lorax the fish get out of the polluted water and walk away from the area. In real life the fish wish they had that luxury. In real life they would suffer a cruel death from poisoning or suffocation. In fact they do, there are areas all along the U.S. cost called dead zones that contain no oxygen in the water. The Dr. also warns of air pollution in the Lorax. My parents went to China to adopt my little sister and they got to see first hand the effects of air potation. When they went there they saw a gray sky. It wasn't from water vapor it was from all the factories in China. It was also because of the lack of regulations on the parts per million of pollutants in China's air. This combined made eternal grayness of the sky so man can keep producing. This is what the Lorax warns against with its ethos style writing and that this almost too late message cannot be ignored any longer.
The father and son relation ship is a complex phenomenon that scientist still don't fully understand to this day. For some reason sons tend to have a need for certain emotional gratification. The four basic emotional things they need is they need to know they matter. They need to know that their father loves them and they need to know that they are important to him. Lastly they need to know that the father is proud of them and what they do. The movie click that we just finished today was a good example on how the son urns for the fathers approval for what he does. In click the son becomes an architect because the father was also an architect. They also did a since were they have the son come in the dads office years after the son becomes and architect. They have the son come in and show the dad some build plans and ask if the father is proud. This a perfect example strait from the articles we had to read. The movie road to perdition plays into this commentary too. The part where the father in road to perdition says to his son do ever think this is your fault. The father is trying to making sure that he doesn't think it was him that was responsible. That's my boy is a grate example of several of the parts of the father son relationship. Adam Sandler doesn't want to give the kid up because he wants the kid to grow up thinking his father loved him. He also lets the kid wear whatever he wants too. This is the part were fathers let their sons know that they are proud of them and what they do. Those are three movies that properly show the father son commentary.
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