She’s also hearing voices: Strange messages and mystic pronouncements fill her ears, though only when her daughter is awake. The narrator of Sweet Lamb of Heaven leaves her controlling, menacing husband, fleeing with her infant daughter all the way from Alaska to coastal Maine. We discussed how writers can embrace activism without compromising artistry, and what it means to build a compelling moral vision. Maybe the Lorax-that bossy, pedantic guilt-tripper-fails to deliver a convincing message, but the book succeeds where the character fails.
Seuss’s personal favorite among his books, an overtly environmentalist fable that also manages to tell a haunting truth about the destructive power of greed.
In a conversation for this series, Millet discussed The Lorax, Dr.
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