Struck By Lightning: Movie Analysis

Humans, as the world’s largest growing species, must make choices everyday. Choice, a shared humanity characteristic, applies to humans because of the choices they must make, daily. In Struck by Lightning, by Chris Colfer, Carson Phillips’ father chooses to manipulate Carson to seem like a good person to his new wife, April. Carson writes, “... it was Dad’s way of authenticating something with April. He had tried using me and it didn’t work,” (Colfer, 203). His dad, as a human, had the power to choose to fabricate a past life with his only son or to be honest and say he hadn’t seen Carson for two years. Of course, being a human, he only wanted to benefit him, and his relationship with April, so he lied. Humans, like Carson’s father also have

In the movie, the Lorax, a boy named Ted wants to find a tree to impress a girl. He is led to the Once-ler who chopped all the trees down, long ago. The Once-ler tells him his tale of misfortune, and how it was his fault that trees were no more. In the movie, we see early scenes that depict the Once-ler as young man, chopping down his first tree. After the tree is down, and he carries it away, the Lorax pops out of the tree stump. His confusion and anger as to what happened to the tree is due to the fact that he is the guardian of the forest, and he speaks for the trees. After the Lorax warns the Once-ler not to do it again, they make a trust that the Once-ler later breaks. When all the trees have been chopped, the Once-ler’s family leaves him, and he is left alone to finally realize what he has done to the environment. What used to be beautiful is now dark and empty. The Lorax leaves and the Once-ler has lost his greed. Humans, like the Once-ler, must have loss to be what they are. Had the Oncer-ler not experienced the loss of friendship with the Lorax, and the loss of the trees, he would not have seen his greedy ways. Like him, humans have much greed and put themselves before things like the environment. The loss of the trees put the Once-ler into a different perspective, making him think about what he did wrong, which is what humans do, making them, like the Once-ler, realize the loss in a way that makes them see what they did wrong and how they could’ve been better. This is how humans grow and learn to fix loss from their mistakes; doing it right the next time. Loss, like this, can be good or bad and can make humans feel differently about a