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sellsthneedsThe Once-ler lived with his mother Isabella, his brothers Brett and Chet (who are identical twins), and his aunt Grizedla and uncle Ubb. When he set out to sell his invention, "the Thneed" he had not yet made even a prototype. The Once-ler's initial goal was to find a material to make Thneeds.
He left home with a cart, a mule, supplies, and his guitar. (Although a date is never given, it can be estimated to be the 1960s.) After traveling for quite a long ways, he came to the Truffula Valley, a stunning place of fluffy trees, humming fish, swommee swans, and bar-ba-loots.
Deciding that these trees provided the perfect material for Thneeds, he promptly cut down a tree and started harvesting its tufts.
This action summoned the Lorax, a small, orange, grumpy "speaker of the trees". The Once-ler missed the display of lightning and thunder that accompanied the Lorax's sudden appearance, and was more than a little skeptical when the mustached guardian tried to kick him out of the Valley.
The Lorax then tried to evict the Once-ler by putting his bed in the river while he slept---but, due to a bar-ba-loot cub joining the sleeping inventor, he had to abandon that plan. It was fortunate he did so, because if he nearly drowned the poor man as he slept, when the bed took an unexpected detour near a waterfall.
After nearly killing (and then saving) him, the Lorax and Once-ler reached a compromise. He wouldn't cut down any more trees, and the Lorax would let him stick around--and keep an eye on the young man.
(Past this point, he actually manages to start selling Thneeds. He brings his family in to help him with his new company, and his mother manages to convince him to start cutting down trees to make the harvesting of tufts easier.
Success goes to his head, fueled by greed and the desire to please his mother, and he manages to not only pollute the air with smog, fill the river with schlop, but he also cuts down every single Truffula-tree in existence. The environment destroyed, the animals leave the valley in search of someplace they could live. His family abandons him the moment he is no longer a financial success, and the Lorax himself leaves for the sky, leaving the Once-ler alone with the ruins of his factory and a stone circle with the word "Unless".)
He left home with a cart, a mule, supplies, and his guitar. (Although a date is never given, it can be estimated to be the 1960s.) After traveling for quite a long ways, he came to the Truffula Valley, a stunning place of fluffy trees, humming fish, swommee swans, and bar-ba-loots.
Deciding that these trees provided the perfect material for Thneeds, he promptly cut down a tree and started harvesting its tufts.
This action summoned the Lorax, a small, orange, grumpy "speaker of the trees". The Once-ler missed the display of lightning and thunder that accompanied the Lorax's sudden appearance, and was more than a little skeptical when the mustached guardian tried to kick him out of the Valley.
The Lorax then tried to evict the Once-ler by putting his bed in the river while he slept---but, due to a bar-ba-loot cub joining the sleeping inventor, he had to abandon that plan. It was fortunate he did so, because if he nearly drowned the poor man as he slept, when the bed took an unexpected detour near a waterfall.
After nearly killing (and then saving) him, the Lorax and Once-ler reached a compromise. He wouldn't cut down any more trees, and the Lorax would let him stick around--and keep an eye on the young man.
(Past this point, he actually manages to start selling Thneeds. He brings his family in to help him with his new company, and his mother manages to convince him to start cutting down trees to make the harvesting of tufts easier.
Success goes to his head, fueled by greed and the desire to please his mother, and he manages to not only pollute the air with smog, fill the river with schlop, but he also cuts down every single Truffula-tree in existence. The environment destroyed, the animals leave the valley in search of someplace they could live. His family abandons him the moment he is no longer a financial success, and the Lorax himself leaves for the sky, leaving the Once-ler alone with the ruins of his factory and a stone circle with the word "Unless".)
