fiction.wikisort.org - CharacterHorton 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.
Fictional character created by Dr. Seuss
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Fictional character
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
- Mayzie: A lazy bird who convinces Horton to sit on her egg, while she relaxes on Palm Beach. When Horton and his egg (now part of a traveling circus) visit near Palm Beach, she demands it, until it hatches into an “elephant bird”. In the Broadway musical production Seussical, her full name is given as Mayzie LaBird.
- Hunters: Three game hunters who planned to shoot Horton, but decided to sell him to the circus to display his ability to climb trees. In the Seuss book, they are illustrated as gentlefolk; but in the 1942 cartoon, they look more like Yosemite Sam or Elmer Fudd.[citation needed]
- Morton the Elephant-Bird: A small animal resembling a winged elephant; hatched by Horton from Mayzie's egg and adopted and raised by Horton.
Horton Hears a Who!
- The Sour Kangaroo: A sour kangaroo and the head of the Jungle of Nool who mistrusts Horton's inquisitive nature as stupidity and does not believe that the Who's and Whoville exist, and attempts to destroy its locus in an attempt of convincing Horton. In the animated special and The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, she is named “Jane Kangaroo”. Voiced by Carol Burnett in the film.
- The Young Kangaroo: The Sour Kangaroo's young joey, who supports his mother in all her speeches. In the film, he is named Rudy, and he believes in the Who's. In the animated special and The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, he is named Junior. Voiced by Josh Flitter in the film.
- Mayor of Whoville: The mayor of the microscopic world of Whoville; Horton's principal contact therein, and the source of information thereof. In the film, the mayor is named “Ned McDodd” and is the latest of a long lineage of mayors, and is the father of 96 daughters and a son. In the animated special, he is replaced with a scientist character named Dr. Hoovey. Voiced by Steve Carell in the film.
- The Wickersham Brothers: A group of bonobo-like monkeys who work for the Sour Kangaroo and steal the flower upon which Whoville rests. They have a very large family, who help bind Horton. The main brother in the group is voiced by Dan Fogler in the film.
- Vlad Vladikoff: A black eagle that takes the flower that Horton protects and drops it in a huge patch of identical flowers. In the animated special of Horton Hears a Who!, his name is changed to Whizzer McWoff, and he appears more like a vulture than an eagle. Voiced by Will Arnett in the film adaptation, speaks in a Russian accent, and truly is a vulture yet made to resemble a condor.
- JoJo: One of the Who's: a small boy who, when exhorted by the Mayor, announces Whoville's existence to the larger world by shouting “YOPP”. In Seussical, and the subsequent film, he is the Mayor's son; in the latter, voiced by Jesse McCartney.
Seussical
- Gertrude McFuzz: Although her original story did not feature Horton at all, Gertrude is a prominent character throughout the musical Seussical, in which she is Horton's next-door neighbor who falls in love with him due to his big heart. To attract Horton's attention, she artificially grows an impractically large tail. She helps Horton by locating the Who's in the clover patch and rescuing him from the circus, and in the end agrees to help Horton raise and adopt the elephant-bird (a half-calf, half-chick) and teach him about being both an elephant and a bird.
- Judge Yertle the Turtle: Although his original story did not feature Horton at all, he appeared towards the end of the musical sentencing Horton to a mental institution for his actions until they were proven true.
Horton and the Kwuggerbug
- The Kwuggerbug: A rude Kwuggerbug who enlists Horton to bring him to a tree full of delicious nuts, promising give him half when they get there, but forces him to undertake various hardships along the way while not intending to keep his word.
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.
- Horton Hatches the Egg was made into a 10-minute cartoon for Looney Tunes in 1942 created by Bob Clampett. This was the first cinematic adaptation of a Dr. Seuss book.
- Horton Hears a Who! It was made into a 1970 animated TV special directed by Chuck Jones, two short films produced in Ukraine and Russia respectively, and a 2008 CGI feature film by Blue Sky Studios.
- Both Horton books are part of the main plot in the 2000 musical Seussical. Horton is one of the main characters.
- The character lent its name to the company Hortonworks, founded in 2011.[4][5]
References
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- And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street3
- The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
- The King's Stilts
- The Seven Lady Godivas
- Horton Hatches the Egg
- McElligot's Pool3
- Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose
- Bartholomew and the Oobleck
- If I Ran the Zoo3
- Scrambled Eggs Super!3
- Horton Hears a Who!
- On Beyond Zebra!3
- If I Ran the Circus
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
- The Cat in the Hat
- The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
- Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
- Happy Birthday to You!
- Green Eggs and Ham
- One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
- The Sneetches and Other Stories
- Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book
- Dr. Seuss's ABC
- Hop on Pop
- Fox in Socks
- I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew
- I Wish That I Had Duck Feet 1
- Come over to My House 1
- The Foot Book
- I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories
- My Book about ME
- Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?: Dr. Seuss's Book of Wonderful Noises!
- The Lorax
- Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!
- Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
- The Shape of Me and Other Stuff
- There's a Wocket in My Pocket
- Great Day for Up!
- Wacky Wednesday 1
- Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
- The Cat's Quizzer3
- I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
- Oh Say Can You Say?
- Hunches in Bunches
- The Butter Battle Book
- You're Only Old Once!
- I Am Not Going to Get Up Today!
- Oh, the Places You'll Go!
- Daisy-Head Mayzie 2
- My Many Colored Days 2
- Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! 2
- The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories 2
- Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories 2
- What Pet Should I Get? 2
- Horse Museum 2
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- Welcome (Russian short film)
- Seussical (musical)
- Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical
- "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" (song)
- The Cat in the Hat (play)
- The Lorax (musical)
- Dr. Seuss' The Grinch Musical Live! (musical)
- Dr. Seuss's ABC (musical)
- Green Eggs and Ham (musical)
- The Cat in the Hat (musical)
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- Helen Palmer (first wife)
- A Fish Out of Water
- Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum
- Beginner Books
- Dr. Seuss Enters., L.P. v. Penguin Books USA, Inc.
- Dr. Seuss Goes to War
- The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss
- Dr. Seuss National Memorial
- Geisel Award
- Geisel Library
- Geisel School of Medicine
- PM
- Political messages of Dr. Seuss
- Read Across America
- Seuss Landing
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1 as "Theo. LeSieg". 2 Posthumous. 3 withdrawn from publication |
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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