Learning from Horton

A week ago, My students and I watched a film named "Horton Hears A Who". Actually this is an old film but it's no matter since what I want is that the students can learn from the movie.

Horton is a funny elephant living happily in a jungle called 'Nool'. Everything goes as usual until he finds a dust. It's not an ordinary dust. Horton hears something comes out from the dust as if there were a life in the dust. Yupp, it's true. There is really a life in that dust. Even Horton can communicate with the living things in the dust. Realizing that there is a life there, he began to get worried of one in the jungle know ot and do something dangerous. He then decides to save the very tiny tiny planet to the top of mountain.M eanwhile, the news that Horton speak to the dust make all animals get mad. The do not want their kids get mad like Horton. They finally get Horton trapped.


The animals, provoked by a mother kangaroo, offers him two difficult option. First, Forgetting the crazy idea (which is actually a truth) about living things in the dust. And he is permitted to live in the jungle. The second is he keeps his crazy idea but he will be vanished together with the dust.

One thing that we learn is that We must appreciate a life although it is very small. And it has been done bt Horton. Of Horton get struggled so hard for a life in the dust, why we, as the human being, do nt want to do the same thing for the bigger world.