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Horton Hatches the Egg
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })In this well-known Dr. Seuss book from 1940, a lazy bird named Mayzie talks Horton the elephant into watching her egg. In spite of her promise to be back soon, the pachyderm finds himself egg sitting through fall and winter. His friends make fun of him; hunters capture him, but nothing will keep Horton from his sworn duty to the egg...and he is eventually rewarded.The story was adapted into a Looney Tunes short in 1942, directed by Bob Clampett. The book would eventually get a sequel titled Horton Hears a Who! in 1954. | |
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Artistic License – Ornithology | |
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Artistic License – Ornithology: There are no known species of bird that has an incubation period of almost a year. However, elephants have a gestation period of nearly two years. Maybe they averaged out. | |
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However, elephants have a gestation period of nearly two years. Maybe they averaged out. | |
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Ambiguously Absent Parent: We never see the elephant-bird's biological father, though Horton probably becomes its adopted father at the end. | |
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Contrived Coincidence: Horton's circus arrives in the very town Mayzie has been staying in since the beginning of the story. Not only that, but the egg also begins to hatch the moment Mayzie sees Horton. | |
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Determinator: Horton, who else? He keeps his promise to protect the egg even in terrible weather, and even when his life is threatened by big-game hunters. (They spare his life, thinking taking him alive would be more profitable, but that only makes his ordeal worse.) As he himself says, "I meant what I said and I said what I meant, an elephant's loyal, one-hundred percent!" | |
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