When I read the story “The Lorax”, I thought that the theme of this story was showing how anything can become an addiction or the use of something can be abused. In the beginning, Once-ler only cuts down one tree to make his “Thneeds”. The Lorax doesn’t like this because that is the food and the source of life for many things. The Lorax can not get Once-ler to understand that he doesn’t need to chop down all the trees. After a while Once-ler goes back and chops down all the trees in the forest. He later then builds a factory and pollutes the air and does the normal harm a factory does. Once he started making money and producing his “Thneeds”, he couldn’t stop. The trees almost went extinct because he chopped down every last one. Luckily they