‘Save the whales! Stop global warming! Protect the trees!’ Sound familiar? These are phrases that I, as an audience of the public, hear often. In addition to these messages, recently I have read many pieces of literature that contain vast amounts of ecocriticism. Ecocriticism is the study of certain classical literary works and their purpose to bring awareness of the environment to the reader. Through the nonfiction articles of The Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, The Green Movement at 50: Rachel—The Green Revolutionary by Michael McCarthy, and Moths of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter, ecocriticism is expressed. Not only do these nonfiction articles include this effective literary purpose, but the novel by Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea and the film, The Lorax produced by DePatie-Freeleng Enterprises also include elements of ecocriticism. After reading and watching these pieces of literatures, my eyes have been opened to how the…show more content… “Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species man acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world” (Carson, 1962). This quote from The Silent Spring shows that now the environment around us is no longer changing us, but we are changing it; just a glimpse of how we have reversed mother nature. Throughout the film The Lorax, the audience learns many ways of how man is negatively effecting nature’s peaceful nature. After a poor man takes over a vast forest of Truffula Trees, he eventually cuts them all down with his newly inventive machines. These machines release immense amounts of exhaust into the air, which also causes the birds in the area to die out or leave. Not only is there corrupted man-made exhausts in the air, but these nonrenewable Truffula Trees die out, taking away homes and resources for animals in the area (Seuss,
