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Horton the Elephant is a fictional character from the 1940 book Horton Hatches the Egg[2] and 1954 book Horton Hears a Who!,[3] both by Dr. Seuss. In both books and subsequent media, Horton is characterized as a kind, sweet-natured and naïve elephant who manages to overcome hardships.

Horton the Elephant
Horton as drawn by Dr. Seuss, from Horton Hears a Who!
First appearanceHorton Hatches the Egg (1940)
Created byDr. Seuss
Portrayed byKevin Chamberlin (Seussical)
Voiced byKent Rogers (1942 film)
Mel Blanc (sneezing in 1942 film)
Hans Conried (1970 special)
Frank Welker (In Search of Dr. Seuss)
John Kennedy (The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss)
Jeffrey Draper (Dr. Seuss Preschool)[1]
Jim Carrey (2008 film)
In-universe information
SpeciesElephant
GenderMale
ChildrenMorton the Elephant-Bird (adoptive stepson and adoptive son)

In 1942, Warner Bros. made the animated short film, Horton Hatches the Egg, in which Horton is voiced by Kent Rogers.

In 1970, MGM Animation/Visual Arts made a 30-minute TV special of Horton Hears a Who!. Horton is voiced by Hans Conried, who also lends his voice as the narrator.

Horton is voiced by Jim Carrey in the 2008 computer-animated adaptation of Horton Hears A Who!, where he is shown as being eccentric and imaginative, and sort of absent-minded.

Horton is also a character in the TV series The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss. John Kennedy voiced the character in “Horton Hatches the Egg”. Horton is also a principal character in Seussical (2000), which uses most of the two Horton books as its primary plot. Kevin Chamberlin originated the role of Horton on Broadway.


Other characters



Horton Hatches the Egg



Horton Hears a Who!



Seussical



Horton and the Kwuggerbug



Stories


Horton Hatches the Egg: Mother bird Mayzie lays an egg, but becomes weary of incubating it, and persuades Horton to take her place. As Horton spends months at this, he suffers rainstorms, snowstorms, and the mockery of the other animals, while Mayzie relaxes abroad. When three hunters approach him, Horton defies them to shoot him, while refusing to leave the nest; and the hunters, realizing they have found a rare attraction-an elephant sitting on a nest – dig up the tree and sell him to a circus. When the circus arrives in Palm Beach, Mayzie goes to Horton demanding the return of her egg; but when the egg hatches, it produces the hybrid 'elephant-bird', who returns with Horton to the wild.

Horton Hears A Who!: Horton is bathing in a pond when he hears a speck of dust emit cries for help, and places it on a red clover for safety. Upon investigating, he learns that the speck of dust is a microscopic world named Whoville, inhabited by a microscopic species called Who's. When he talks to the Who's, the Sour Kangaroo and her son brand Horton as insane to the entire animal kingdom. When Horton retains the Who's, the Wickersham Brothers steal the clover and request Vladikoff to dispose of it; whereupon Vladikoff discards the clover among a field of identical plants. After a day of searching, Horton locates Whoville; but Mother Kangaroo arrives with an army of monkeys, to imprison him and destroy the clover. When the Kangaroos fail to hear a chorus of Who's announcing their presence, the monkeys attack Horton, who shouts at the Who's to prove themselves; but all their efforts fail until the Who child 'Jojo' shouts the syllable “YOPP!”, breaking the sound barrier. The monkeys and Kangaroo apologize to Horton and promise to cooperate with him in protecting Whoville.

Horton and the Kwuggerbug: Horton walks through the jungle when he meets a Kwuggerbug, who tells him about a Beezlenut tree and offers to give him half the nuts if he brings him there. Horton, wanting the Beezlenuts, agrees. However, the bug turns out to be rude and demanding, and forces Horton to swim across a lake infested with crocodiles and climb a treacherous mountain to get to the tree on top, where he is then forced to stretch over a ledge to the tree to allow the bug to get to the nuts. When the bug gets the nuts, he cracks them, then points out that half of every nut is the shell, and he intends to give Horton the shells while he gets the insides. He jams the shells into Horton's trunk. Horton, in anger, and in pain from the shells in his trunk, sneezes, blowing the bug so far away he can never get back to the Beezlenut tree.


Other media



References


  1. "Dr. Seuss Preschool". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  2. Seuss, Dr. (1968). Horton hatches the egg. Random House. ISBN 978-0-394-80077-6.
  3. Seuss, Dr. (1982). Horton hears a Who!. Vol. 2, reissue, illustrated. Random House. ISBN 978-0-394-80078-3.
  4. Charles Babcock (June 29, 2011). "Hadoop Big Data Startup Spins Out Of Yahoo". Information Week. Archived from the original on July 4, 2011. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  5. Cade Metz (June 28, 2011). "Yahoo! seeds Hadoop startup on open source dream: Hortonworks hears a Big Data revolution". The Register. Retrieved February 21, 2017.



На других языках


- [en] Horton the Elephant

[es] Horton el Elefante

Horton el Elefante es un personaje ficticio del libro de 1940 Horton empolla el huevo[1] y el libro de 1954 Horton escucha a quién!,[2] ambos por el Dr. Seuss. Horton es un elefante amable y dulce que se preocupa por otros animales o personas. A pesar de que atraviesa muchas dificultades, ya sea tratando de mantener un huevo caliente a través de tormentas, viajes bruscos y espectáculos humillantes, o trata de salvar un pequeño planeta de daño, él siempre triunfa; el huevo se abre en un elefante, mientras que el planeta es salvado y respetado por los demás. Él es muy popular debido a su gran corazón y compasión respetuosa, lo que lo hace más gracioso.

[it] Ortone

Ortone (Horton) è un personaggio immaginario dei libri per bambini Horton Hatches the Egg e Horton Hears a Who, entrambi del Dr. Seuss.



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