Horton Hears a Who! (1954)
{"Image DocumentName": "Horton Hears a Who! (1954)", "Image ImageDescription": "An allegory or parable for the situation of Japan after Hiroshima - points to the potential dangers of people\u2019s lack of imagination. Began teaching tolerance to generations of kids - A person\u2019s a person, no matter how small Horton Hears a Who! (1954), an allegory for the situation of Japan after Hiroshima, Seuss points to the potential dangers of people s lack of imagination. Horton the elephant, who previously appeared in Horton Hatches the Egg (1940), hears a noise coming from a speck of dust, which he discovers to his surprise to be the voice of the mayor of Who\u2010ville asking for Horton s protection. The other animals in the jungle, who fail to understand why Horton is protecting the speck of dust, ridicule and torture him until Horton gets the Whos to make themselves heard to the other animals. The story ends with a mise\u2010en\u2010abyme, the mayor of Who\u2010ville himself discovering an entire world on a speck of dust. Began the teaching of tolerance to generations of kids\u2014that \u2018a person\u2019s a person, no matter how small\u2019 Horton is said to be a response to the atomic bomb. While the line from the book A person is a person, no matter how small has been used as rhetoric against abortion rights, Seuss himself had threatened to sue an anti-abortion group for their use of the phrase, and has attracted sharp criticism from his widow, herself strongly pro-choice. A lawsuit was filed in Canada in 2001 on this issue.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}