
Horton refuses and the Kangaroo orders the animals to rope and cage him, and to have the speck and Whoville destroyed in a pot of beezlenut oil. Upon cornering him, the Kangaroo offers Horton to renounce Whoville's existence. Quilligan, that Horton still has the speck, and rallies the jungle community into fighting Horton, saying that his goal will lead to anarchy. The Kangaroo eventually finds out, thanks to Mrs. After unsuccessfully picking 2,999,999 clovers, Horton eventually recovers the clover (exactly the 3,000,000th clover). Once Horton begins carrying the speck with him, the city starts experiencing strange phenomena (earthquakes and changes in the weather), and the Mayor finds his attempts to caution Whoville challenged by the Town Council, led by the opportunistic yet condescending Chairman.Īfter a few failed attempts, Vlad manages to steal the clover away from Horton and drops it into a massive field of identical pink clovers, causing an apocalyptic tremor in Whoville. Despite being the oldest and next in line for the mayoral position, JoJo doesn't want to be the next mayor, and because he's so scared of disappointing his father, never talks. Horton finds out the speck harbors the city of Whoville and its inhabitants, the Whos, led by Mayor Ned McDodd, whose family includes his wife Sally, 96 daughters (whose names all begin with the letter H), and one teenage son named JoJo. Believing that an entire society of microscopic creatures are living on that speck, he gives chase to it before placing it on top of a clover. The dust speck floats past him in the air, and he hears a tiny yelp coming from it.

At the same time, Horton the Elephant, the jungle's eccentric nature teacher, takes a dip in the pool.


A dust speck is dislodged from its obscure place and sent adrift through the Jungle of Nool.
