"Horton Hears a Who" ( A Tale of Human Dignity)

I just finished watching "Horton Hears a Who."  My son has the story book, which I purchased for him some time ago, however, I failed to recall the story and its profound message until I saw the movie.   "In the storybook version of "Horton Hears a Who," famous children's author Dr. Seuss tells the story of a community of microscopic people called "Who's" who live in "Who-ville". The world is a tiny, yet technologically advanced community of people living on a dust-speck. The jungle elephant Horton has excellent hearing that alerts him to the presence of the people, and he promises to protect them from danger." The antagonist of the story, Sour Kangaroo, embodies the empiricist view with the motto, "If you can’t see, hear or feel something, it doesn’t exist.” Sour Kangaroo is on a mission to destroy the clover (where the Who's live) and bring down Horton, due to the fact that she believes Horton's beliefs and efforts to preserve the Who's are a "nonsensical game." Horton, to his accusers retorts, “A person’s a person.  No matter how small” In the midst of abuse and much peril (long story short) Horton prevails and even Sour Kangaroo becomes a "believer" by the end of the book/movie.

The adage "A person is a person no matter how small" is the major motif of the movie. There are some pro-life groups that have used this statement as their unofficial phrase. We don't know Mr. Theodore Geise's (Dr. Seuss) intentions in writing the book. Either way, the "Screenwriters Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul emphasize the book’s value as an allegory about religious belief."
The book indeed is an allegory about religious beliefs and a window into that fact that we, no matter how small, have been created in the Imago Dei. I would strongly recommend this movie.