text:
The Cat in the Hat
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This article is about the book written by Dr. Seuss. For other uses, see The Cat in the Hat (disambiguation).
The Cat in the Hat
Book cover
Author
Dr. Seuss
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Children's literature
Publisher
Random House, Houghton Mifflin
Publication date
March 12, 1957
ISBN
978-0-7172-6059-1
OCLC
304833
Preceded by
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Followed by
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
The Cat in the Hat is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and first published in 1957. The story centers on a tall anthropomorphic cat, who wears a red and white-striped hat and a red bow tie. The Cat shows up at the house of Sally and her brother one rainy day when their mother is away. Despite the repeated objections of the children's fish, the Cat shows the children a few of his tricks in an attempt to entertain them. In the process he and his companions, Thing One and Thing Two, wreck the house. The children and the fish become more and more alarmed until the Cat produces a machine that he uses to clean everything up and disappears just before the children's mother comes home.
Geisel created the book in response to a debate in the United States about literacy in early childhood and the ineffectiveness of traditional primers such as those featuring Dick and Jane. Geisel was asked to write a more entertaining primer by William Spaulding, whom he had met during World War II and who was then director of the education division at Houghton Mifflin. However, because Geisel was already under contract with Random House, the two publishers agreed to a deal: Houghton Mifflin published the education edition, which was sold to schools, and Random House published the trade edition, which was sold in bookstores.
Geisel gave varying accounts of how he created The Cat in the Hat, but in the version he told most often he was so frustrated with the word list from which he could choose words to write his story that he decided to scan the list and create a story based on the first two words he found that rhymed. The words he found were cat and hat. The book was met with immediate critical and commercial success. Reviewers praised it as an exciting alternative to traditional primers. Three years after its debut, the book had already sold over a million copies, and in 2001 Publishers Weekly listed the book at number nine on its list of best-selling children's books of all time. The book's success led to the creation of Beginner Books, a publishing house centered on producing similar books for young children learning to read. In 1983, Geisel said, "It is the book I'm proudest of because it had something to do with the death of the Dick and Jane primers." The book was adapted into a 1971 animated television special and a 2003 live-action film.
Contents
1 Plot
2 Background
3 Creation
4 Publication history
5 Reception
6 Analysis
7 Legacy
8 Adaptations
9 See also
10 References
10.1 Bibliography
Plot[edit]
The story begins as a girl named Sally and her brother, who serves as the narrator of the book, sit alone in their house on a cold, rainy day, staring wistfully out the window. Then they hear a loud bump which is quickly followed by the arrival of the Cat in the Hat, a tall anthropomorphic cat in a red and white striped hat and a red bow tie. The Cat proposes to entertain the children with some tricks that he knows. The children's pet fish refuses, insisting that the Cat should leave. The Cat responds by balancing the fish on the tip of his umbrella. The game quickly becomes increasingly trickier, as the Cat balances himself on a ball and tries to balance lots of household items on his limbs until he falls on his head, dropping everything he was holding. The fish admonishes him again, but the Cat in the Hat just proposes another game.
The Cat brings in a big red box from outside, from which he releases two identical creatures with blue hair and red suits called Thing One and Thing Two. The Things cause more trouble, such as flying kites in the house, knocking pictures off the wall and picking up the children's mother's new polka-dotted gown. All this comes to an end when the fish spots the children's mother out the window. In response, Sally's brother catches the Things in a net, and the Cat, apparently ashamed, stores them back in the big red box. He takes it out the front door as the fish and the children survey the mess he has made. But the Cat soon returns, riding a machine that picks everything up and cleans the house, delighting the fish and the children. The Cat then leaves just before their mother arrives, and the fish and the children are back where they started at the beginning of the story. As she steps in, the mother asks the children what they did while she was out, but the children are hesitant and do not answer. The story ends with the question, "What would you do if your mother asked you?"
Background[edit]
An article by John Hersey about literacy in early childhood provided inspiration for The Cat in the Hat.
Theodor Geisel, writing as Dr. Seuss, created The Cat in the Hat partly in response to the May 24, 1954, Life magazine article by John Hersey titled "Why Do Students Bog Down on First R? A Local Committee Sheds Light on a National Problem: Reading".[1][2] In the article, Hersey was critical of school primers like those featuring Dick and Jane:
In the classroom boys and girls are confronted with books that have insipid illustrations depicting the slicked-up lives of other children... All feature abnormally courteous, unnaturally clean boys and girls.... In bookstores anyone can buy brighter, livelier books featuring strange and wonderful animals and children who behave naturally, i.e., sometimes misbehave... Given incentive from school boards, publishers could do as well with primers.[3]
After detailing many issues contributing to the dilemma connected with student reading levels, Hersey asked toward the end of the article:
Why should [school primers] not have pictures that widen rather than narrow the associative richness the children give to the words they illustrate—drawings like those of the wonderfully imaginative geniuses among children's illustrators, Tenniel, Howard Pyle, "Dr. Seuss", Walt Disney?[4]
This article caught the attention of William Spaulding, who had met Geisel during the war and who was then the director of Houghton Mifflin's education division.[5] Spaulding had also read the best-selling 1955 book Why Johnny Can't Read by Rudolf Flesch.[6] Flesch, like Hersey, criticized primers as boring but also criticized them for teaching reading through word recognition rather than phonics.[7] In 1955, Spaulding invited Geisel to dinner in Boston where he proposed that Geisel create a book "for six- and seven-year-olds who had already mastered the basic mechanics of reading".[5] He reportedly challenged, "Write me a story that first-graders can't put down!"[5]
At the back of Why Johnny Can't Read, Flesch had included 72 lists of words that young children should be able to read, and Spaulding provided Geisel with a similar list.[7] Geisel later told biographers Judith and Neil Morgan that Spaulding had supplied him with a list of 348 words that every six-year-old should know and insisted that the book's vocabulary be limited to 225 words.[5] However, according to Philip Nel, Geisel gave varying numbers in interviews from 1964 to 1969.[8] He variously claimed that he could use between 200 and 250 words from a list of between 300 and 400; the finished book contains 236 different words.[8]
Creation[edit]
Geisel gave varying accounts of how he conceived of The Cat in the Hat. According to the story Geisel told most often, he was so frustrated with the word list that William Spaulding had given him that he finally decided to scan the list and create a story out of the first two words he found that rhymed. The words he found were cat and hat.[8] Near the end of his life, Geisel told his biographers, Judith and Neil Morgan, that he conceived the beginnings of the story while he was with Spaulding, in an elevator in the Houghton Mifflin offices in Boston.[9] It was an old, shuddering elevator and was operated by a "small, stooped woman wearing 'a leather half-glove and a secret smile'".[9] Anita Silvey, recounting a similar story, described the woman as "a very elegant, very petite African-American woman named Annie Williams".[10] Geisel told Silvey that, when he sketched the Cat in the Hat, he thought of Williams and gave the character Williams' white gloves and "sly, even foxy smile".[10]
According to Geisel, one of the stories he pitched before The Cat in the Hat involved scaling Mount Everest.
Geisel gave two conflicting, partly fictionalized accounts of the book's creation in two articles, "How Orlo Got His Book" in The New York Times Book Review and "My Hassle with the First Grade Language" in the Chicago Tribune, both published on November 17, 1957.[8] In "My Hassle with the First Grade Language", he wrote about his proposal to a "distinguished schoolbook publisher" to write a book for young children about "scaling the peaks of Everest at 60 degrees below".[11] The publisher was intrigued but informed him that, because of the word list, "you can't use the word scaling. You can't use the word peaks. You can't use Everest. You can't use 60. You can't use degrees. You can't..."[11] Geisel gave a similar account to Robert Cahn for an article in the July 6, 1957, edition of The Saturday Evening Post.[8] In "My Hassle With the First Grade Language", he also told a story of the "three excruciatingly painful weeks" in which he worked on a story about a King Cat and a Queen Cat.[12] However, "queen" was not on the word list, nor did his first grade nephew, Norval, recognize it. So Geisel returned to the work but could then think only of words that started with the letter "q", which did not appear in any word on the list. He then had a similar fascination with the letter "z", which also did not appear in any word on the list. When he did finally finish the book and showed it to his nephew, Norval had already graduated from the first grade and was learning calculus. Philip Nel notes, in his dissection of the article, that Norval was Geisel's invention. Geisel's niece, Peggy Owens, did have a son, but he was only a one-year-old when the article was published.[13]
In "How Orlo Got His Book", he described Orlo, a fictional, archetypal young child who was turned off of reading by the poor selection of simple reading material.[14] To save Orlo the frustration, Geisel decided to write a book for children like Orlo but found the task "not dissimilar to... being lost with a witch in a tunnel of love".[14] He tried to write a story called "The Queen Zebra" but found that both words did not appear on the list. In fact, like Geisel wrote in "My Hassle with the First Grade Language", the letters "q" and "z" did not appear on the list at all. He then tried to write a story about a bird, without using the word bird as it did not appear on the list. He decided to call it a "wing thing" instead but struggled as he discovered that it "couldn't have legs or a beak or a tail. Neither a left foot or a right foot."[15] On his approach to writing The Cat in the Hat he wrote, "The method I used is the same method you use when you sit down to make apple stroodle [sic] without stroodles."[15]
Geisel variously stated that the book took between nine and 18 months to create.[16] Donald Pease notes that he worked on it primarily alone, unlike with previous books, which had been more collaborative efforts between Geisel and his wife, Helen.[17] This marked a general trend in his work and life. As Robert L. Bernstein later said of that period, "The more I saw of him, the more he liked being in that room and creating all by himself."[18] Pease points to Helen's recovery from Guillain–Barré syndrome, which she was diagnosed with in 1954, as the marker for this change.[18]
Publication history[edit]
Bennett Cerf, the head of Random House, negotiated a deal that allowed both Random House and Houghton Mifflin to publish versions of The Cat in the Hat.
Geisel agreed to write The Cat in the Hat at the request of William Spaulding of Houghton Mifflin; however, because Geisel was under contract with Random House, the head of Random House, Bennett Cerf, made a deal with Houghton Mifflin. Random House retained the rights to trade sales, which encompassed copies of the book sold at book stores, while Houghton Mifflin retained the education rights, which encompassed copies sold to schools.[5]
The Houghton Mifflin edition was released in January or February 1957, and the Random House edition was released on March 1.[19] The two editions featured different covers but were otherwise identical.[19] The first edition can be identified by the "200/200" mark in the top right corner of the front dust jacket flap, signifying the $2.00 selling price. The price was reduced to $1.95 on later editions.[20]
According to Judith and Neil Morgan, the book sold well immediately. The trade edition initially sold an average of 12,000 copies a month, a figure which rose rapidly.[21] Bullock's department store in Los Angeles, California, sold out of its first, 100-copy order of the book in a day and quickly reordered 250 more.[21] The Morgans attribute these sales numbers to "playground word-of-mouth", asserting that children heard about the book from their friends and nagged their parents to buy it for them.[21] However, Houghton Mifflin's school edition did not sell as well. As Geisel noted in Jonathan Cott's 1983 profile of him, "Houghton Mifflin... had trouble selling it to the schools; there were a lot of Dick and Jane devotees, and my book was considered too fresh and irreverent. But Bennett Cerf at Random House had asked for trade rights, and it just took off in the bookstores."[22] Geisel told the Morgans, "Parents understood better than school people the necessity for this kind of reader."[21]
After three years in print, The Cat in the Hat had sold nearly one million copies. By then, the book had been translated into French, Chinese, Swedish, and Braille.[21] In 2001, Publishers Weekly placed it at number nine on its list of the best-selling children's books of all time.[23] As of 2007, more than 10 million copies of The Cat in the Hat have been printed, and it has been translated into more than 12 different languages, including Latin, under the title Cattus Petasatus.[24][25] In 2007, on the occasion of the book's fiftieth anniversary, Random House released The Annotated Cat: Under the Hats of Seuss and His Cats, which includes both The Cat in the Hat and its sequel, with annotations and an introduction by Philip Nel.[19]
Reception[edit]
Geisel in 1957, holding a copy of The Cat in the Hat
The book was published to immediate critical acclaim. Some reviewers praised the book as an exciting way to learn to read, particularly compared to the primers that it supplanted. Ellen Lewis Buell, in her review for The New York Times Book Review, noted the book's heavy use of one-syllable words and lively illustrations.[26] She wrote, "Beginning readers and parents who have been helping them through the dreary activities of Dick and Jane and other primer characters are due for a happy surprise."[27] Helen Adams Masten of the Saturday Review called the book Geisel's tour de force and wrote, "Parents and teachers will bless Mr. Geisel for this amusing reader with its ridiculous and lively drawings, for their children are going to have the exciting experience of learning that they can read after all."[28] Polly Goodwin of the Chicago Sunday Tribune predicted that The Cat in the Hat would cause seven- and eight-year-olds to "look with distinct distaste on the drab adventures of standard primer characters".[29]
Both Helen E. Walker of Library Journal and Emily Maxwell of The New Yorker felt that the book would appeal to older children as well as to its target audience of first- and second-graders.[30] The reviewer for The Bookmark concurred, writing, "Recommended enthusiastically as a picture book as well as a reader".[31] In contrast, Heloise P. Mailloux wrote in The Horn Book Magazine, "This is a fine book for remedial purposes, but self-conscious children often refuse material if its seems meant for younger children."[32] She felt that the book's limited vocabulary kept it from reaching "the absurd excellence of early Seuss books".[32]
Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named The Cat in the Hat one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children".[33] In 2012 it was ranked number 36 among the "Top 100 Picture Books" in a survey published by School Library Journal – the third of five Dr. Seuss books on the list.[34] It was awarded the Early Readers BILBY Award in 2004 and 2012.[35]
The book's fiftieth anniversary in 2007 prompted a reevaluation of the book from some critics. Yvonne Coppard, reviewing the fiftieth anniversary edition in Carousel magazine, wondered if the popularity of the Cat and his "delicious naughty behavior" will endure another fifty years. Coppard wrote, "The innocent ignorance of bygone days has given way to an all-embracing, almost paranoid awareness of child protection issues. And here we have the mysterious stranger who comes in, uninvited, while your mother is out."[36]
Analysis[edit]
Philip Nel places the book's title character in the tradition of con artists in American art, including the title characters from Meredith Willson's The Music Man and L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.[37] Nel also contends that Geisel identified with the Cat, pointing to a self portrait of Geisel in which he appears as the Cat, which was published alongside a profile about him in The Saturday Evening Post on July 6, 1957.[37] Michael K. Frith, who worked as Geisel's editor, concurs, arguing that "The Cat in the Hat and Ted Geisel were inseparable and the same. I think there's no question about it. This is someone who delighted in the chaos of life, who delighted in the seeming insanity of the world around him."[37] Ruth MacDonald asserts that the Cat's primary goal in the book is to create fun for the children. The Cat calls it "fun that is funny", which MacDonald distinguishes from the ordinary, serious fun that parents subject their children to.[38] In an article titled "Was the Cat in the Hat Black?", Philip Nel draws connections between the Cat and stereotyped depictions of African-Americans, including minstrel shows, Geisel's own minstrel-inspired cartoons from early in his career, and the use of the term "cat" to refer to jazz musicians.[39] According to Nel, "Even as [Geisel] wrote books designed to challenge prejudice, he never fully shed the cultural assumptions he grew up with, and was likely unaware of the ways in which his visual imagination replicated the racial ideologies he consciously sought to reject."[39]
Geisel once called the fish in The Cat in the Hat "my version of Cotton Mather".
Geisel once called the fish "my version of Cotton Mather", the Puritan moralist who advised the prosecutors during the Salem witch trials.[40] Betty Mensch and Alan Freeman support this view, writing, "Drawing on old Christian symbolism (the fish was an ancient sign of Christianity) Dr. Seuss portrays the fish as a kind of ever-nagging superego, the embodiment of utterly conventionalized morality."[40] Philip Nel notes that other critics have also compared the fish to the superego. Anna Quindlen called the Cat "pure id" and marked the children, as mediators between the Cat and the fish, as the ego.[40] Mensch and Freeman, however, argue that the Cat shows elements of both id and ego.[40]
In her analysis of the fish, MacDonald asserts that it represents the voice of the children's absent mother.[41] Its conflict with the Cat, not only over the Cat's uninvited presence but also their inherent predator-prey relationship, provides the tension of the story. She points out that on the last page, while the children are hesitant to tell their mother about what happened in her absence, the fish gives a knowing look to the readers to assure them "that something did go on but that silence is the better part of valor in this case".[41] Alison Lurie agrees, writing, "there is a strong suggestion that they might not tell her."[42] She argues that, in the Cat's destruction of the house, "the kids—and not only those in the story, but those who read it—have vicariously given full rein to their destructive impulses without guilt or consequences."[42] For a 1983 article, Geisel told Jonathan Cott, "The Cat in the Hat is a revolt against authority, but it's ameliorated by the fact that the Cat cleans up everything at the end. It's revolutionary in that it goes as far as Kerensky and then stops. It doesn't go quite as far as Lenin."[43]
Donald Pease notes that The Cat in the Hat shares some structural similarities with other Dr. Seuss books. Like earlier books, The Cat in the Hat starts with "a child's feeling of discontent with his mundane circumstances" which is soon enhanced by make believe.[44] The book starts in a factual, realistic world, which crosses over into the world of make believe with the loud bump that heralds the arrival of the Cat.[44] However, this is the first Dr. Seuss book in which the fantasy characters, i.e. the Cat and his companions, are not products of the children's imagination.[44] It also differs from previous books in that Sally and her brother actively participate in the fantasy world; they also have a changed opinion of the Cat and his world by the story's end.[44]
Legacy[edit]
Ruth MacDonald asserts, "The Cat in the Hat is the book that made Dr. Seuss famous. Without The Cat, Seuss would have remained a minor light in the history of children's literature."[45] Donald Pease concurs, writing, "The Cat in the Hat is the classic in the archive of Dr. Seuss stories for which it serves as a cornerstone and a linchpin. Before writing it Geisel was better known for the 'Quick, Henry, the Flit!' ad campaign than for his nine children's books."[46] The publication and popularity of the book thrust Geisel into the center of the United States literacy debate, what Pease called "the most important academic controversy" of the Cold War era.[46] Academic Louis Menand contends that "The Cat in the Hat transformed the nature of primary education and the nature of children's books. It not only stood for the idea that reading ought to be taught by phonics; it also stood for the idea that language skills—and many other subjects—ought to be taught through illustrated storybooks, rather than primers and textbooks."[47] In 1983, Geisel told Jonathan Cott, "It is the book I'm proudest of because it had something to do with the death of the Dick and Jane primers."[22]
A Cat in the Hat Christmas decoration in the White House, 2003
The book led directly to the creation of Beginner Books, a publishing house centered on producing books like The Cat in the Hat for beginning readers.[21] According to Judith and Neil Morgan, when the book caught the attention of Phyllis Cerf, the wife of Geisel's publisher, Bennett Cerf, she arranged for a meeting with Geisel, where the two agreed to create Beginner Books.[21] Geisel became the president and editor, and the Cat in the Hat served as their mascot. Geisel's wife, Helen, was made third partner. Random House served as distributor[21] until 1960, when Random House purchased Beginner Books.[48] Geisel wrote multiple books for the series, including The Cat in the Hat Comes Back (1958), Green Eggs and Ham (1960), Hop on Pop (1963), and Fox in Socks (1965).[49] He initially used word lists of limited vocabularies to create these books, as he had with The Cat in the Hat, but moved away from the lists as he came to believe "that a child could learn any amount of words if fed them slowly and if the books were amply illustrated".[50] Other authors also contributed notable books to the series, including A Fly Went By (1958), Sam and the Firefly (1958), Go, Dog. Go! (1961), and The Big Honey Hunt (1962).[49]
The book, or elements of it, has been mentioned multiple times in United States politics. The image of the Cat balancing many objects on his body while in turn balancing himself on a ball has been included in political cartoons and articles. Political caricaturists have portrayed both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush in this way.[51] In 2004, MAD magazine published "The Strange Similarities Between the Bush Administration and the World of Dr. Seuss", an article which matched quotes from White House officials to excerpts taken from Dr. Seuss books, and in which George W. Bush's State of the Union promises were contrasted with the Cat vowing (in part), "I can hold up the cup and the milk and the cake! I can hold up these books! And the fish on a rake!"[52] In 2007, during the 110th Congress, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid compared the impasse over a bill to reform immigration with the mess created by the Cat. He read lines of the book from the Senate floor.[53] He then carried forward his analogy hoping the impasse would be straightened out for "If you go back and read Dr. Seuss, the cat manages to clean up the mess."[54] In 1999, the United States Postal Service issued a stamp featuring the Cat in the Hat.[55]
The Cat in the Hat's popularity also led to increased popularity and exposure for Geisel's previous children's books. For example, 1940's Horton Hatches the Egg had sold 5,801 copies in its opening year and 1,645 the following year. In 1958, the year after the publication of The Cat in the Hat, 27,643 copies of Horton were sold, and by 1960 the book had sold a total of over 200,000 copies.[46]
Adaptations[edit]
The Cat in the Hat has been adapted for various media, including theater, television, film, and educational software. The animated musical TV special premiered in 1971 and starred Allan Sherman as the Cat. In 2003, a live-action film adaptation was released, starring Mike Myers as the Cat, Spencer Breslin as Conrad, and Dakota Fanning as Sally. Boxoffice.com reports that the film grossed $133,960,541 worldwide on an estimated $109 million budget.[56] In 2012, following the financial success of The Lorax, the animated film adaptation of the Dr. Seuss book of the same name, Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment announced plans to produce a CGI adaptation of the book.[57] Rob Lieber was set to write the script, with Chris Meledandri as producer, and Audrey Geisel as the executive producer. However, the project never came into fruition.[58] On January 24, 2018, it was announced that Warner Animation Group was in development of an animated Cat in the Hat film as part of a creative partnership with Seuss Enterprises.[59]
In 2009, the Royal National Theatre created a stage version of the book, adapted and directed by Katie Mitchell.[60] Seussical, a musical adaptation that incorporates aspects of many Dr. Seuss works, features the Cat in the Hat as narrator.[61] The musical received weak reviews when it opened, in November 2001, but eventually became a staple in regional and school theaters.[61] The Cat also stars in the 1982 television film The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat and the 2010 animated television series The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!. A ride at Universal Studios' Islands of Adventure park in Orlando, Florida, has a Cat in the Hat theme.[62]
See also[edit]
Dr. Seuss Memorial
Grinch
Horton the Elephant
References[edit]
Jump up ^ O'Brien, Anne. "An Educational Innovation: The Cat in the Hat". Learning First Alliance. Archived from the original on 2 November 2013. Retrieved 8 November 2013.
Jump up ^ Nel 2004, p. 29
Jump up ^ Hersey 1954, pp. 136-137
Jump up ^ Hersey 1954, p. 148
^ Jump up to: a b c d e Morgan 1995, pp. 153-154
Jump up ^ Menander 2002, p. 1
^ Jump up to: a b Menand 2002, p. 2
^ Jump up to: a b c d e Nel 2007, pp. 24-26
^ Jump up to: a b Morgan 1995, p. 153
^ Jump up to: a b Silvey, Anita (March 1, 2007). "How the Cat Got His Smile". Listen Morning Edition. NPR.
^ Jump up to: a b "My Hassle With the First Grade Language" 1957, p. 171
Jump up ^ "My Hassle With the First Grade Language" 1957, p. 173
Jump up ^ "My Hassle With the First Grade Language" 1957, p. 170
^ Jump up to: a b "How Orlo Got His Book" 1957, p. 167
^ Jump up to: a b "How Orlo Got His Book" 1957, p. 169
Jump up ^ Nel 2004, p. 30
Jump up ^ Pease 2010, pp. 112–115
^ Jump up to: a b Pease 2010, p. 114
^ Jump up to: a b c Neary, Lynn. "Fifty Years of 'The Cat in the Hat'". NPR. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
Jump up ^ Nel 2007, p. 20
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Morgan 1995, pp. 156–157
^ Jump up to: a b Cott 1983, p. 115
Jump up ^ "All-Time Bestselling Children's Books". Publishers Weekly. 17 December 2001. Archived from the original on December 25, 2005.
Jump up ^ Horrigan, Kevin. "The Cat at 50: Still lots of good fun that is funny". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
Jump up ^ Dr. Seuss; Jennifer Morrish Tunberg; Terence Tunberg (2000). Cattus petasatus: The cat in the hat in Latin (in Latin). Bolchazy-Carducci. p. 75. ISBN 9780865164710. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
Jump up ^ Buell, Ellen Lewis (17 March 1957). "High Jinks at Home". The New York Times Book Review, as quoted in Fensch 2001, pp. 124–125. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Jump up ^ Buell, Ellen Lewis (17 March 1957). "High Jinks at Home". The New York Times Book Review, as quoted in Nel 2007, pp. 9–10. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Jump up ^ Masten, Helen Adams (11 May 1957). "The Cat in the Hat". Saturday Review, as quoted in Nel 2007, pp. 9–10. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Jump up ^ Goodwin, Polly (12 May 1957). "Hurray for Dr. Seuss!". Chicago Sunday Tribune. Chicago IL, as quoted in Nel 2007, pp. 9–10. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Jump up ^ Nel 2007, pp. 9–10
Jump up ^ "Some Early Spring Books for Children and Young People". The Bookmark. April 1957, as quoted in Fensch 2001, pp. 124–125 |access-date= requires |url= (help)
^ Jump up to: a b Mailloux, Heloise P. (June 1957). "Late Spring Book List". The Horn Book Magazine, as quoted in Nel 2007, pp. 9–10. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Jump up ^ National Education Association (2007). "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". Retrieved August 19, 2012.
Jump up ^ Bird, Elizabeth (July 6, 2012). "Top 100 Picture Books Poll Results". A Fuse #8 Production. Blog. School Library Journal (blog.schoollibraryjournal.com). Retrieved August 19, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Previous Winners of the BILBY Awards: 2001 to date" (PDF). www.cbcaqld.org. The Children's Book Council of Australia Queensland Branch. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 November 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
Jump up ^ Coppard, Yvonne (Autumn 2007). "The Cat in the Hat Review". Carousel (37).
^ Jump up to: a b c Nel 2004, p. 118-119
Jump up ^ MacDonald 1986, pp. 110–111
^ Jump up to: a b Nel, Philip (2014). "Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: Exploring Dr. Seuss's Racial Imagination". Children's Literature. 42 (1): 71–98. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
^ Jump up to: a b c d Nel 2007, 40
^ Jump up to: a b MacDonald 1986, pp. 114–115
^ Jump up to: a b Lurie 1992, p. 70
Jump up ^ Cott 1983, p. 117
^ Jump up to: a b c d Pease 2010, pp. 103–105
Jump up ^ MacDonald 1988, p. 105
^ Jump up to: a b c Pease 2010, pp. 111–112
Jump up ^ Menand 2002, p. 3
Jump up ^ Morgan 1995, p. 167
^ Jump up to: a b "First Edition Beginner Books". 1stedition.net. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
Jump up ^ "Somebody's Got to Win" 1986, p. 126
Jump up ^ Nel 2007, p. 48
Jump up ^ MAD Magazine #447, November 2004, Drucker/Devlin
Jump up ^ Dana Milbank (June 8, 2007). "Snubbing the White House, Without Snubbing the White House". The Washington Post.
Jump up ^ Stephen Dinan (June 6, 2007). "Senate tries to cool immigration bill heat". The Washington Times.
Jump up ^ Fensch 2001, p. 176
Jump up ^ "Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat". Boxoffice.com. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
Jump up ^ Minovitz, Ethan (March 18, 2012). "The Cat In The Hat comes back as animated feature". Big Cartoon News. Archived from the original on December 3, 2012. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
Jump up ^ Kit, Borys (January 24, 2018). "New 'Cat in the Hat' Movie in the Works From Warner Bros". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
Jump up ^ https://www.thewrap.com/cat-in-the-hat-animated-film-dr-seuss-franchise-warner-bros/
Jump up ^ Spencer, Charles (17 December 2009). "The Cat in the Hat at the National Theatre, review". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b Connema, Richard. "Seussical is a Charming Musical". Talkin Broadway. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
Jump up ^ "Cat in the Hat at Universal's Islands of Adventure". Orlando Informer. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
Bibliography[edit]
Cott, Jonathan (1983). "The Good Dr. Seuss". In Fensch, Thomas. Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays on the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel. McFarland & Company. pp. 99–123. ISBN 0-7864-0388-8.
Fensch, Thomas (2001). The Man Who Was Dr. Seuss. Woodlands: New Century Books. ISBN 0-930751-11-6.
Fensch, Thomas, ed. (April 14, 1986). "'Somebody's Got to Win' in Kids' Books: An Interview with Dr. Seuss on His Books for Children, Young and Old". Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays on the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel. McFarland & Company. pp. 125–127. ISBN 0-7864-0388-8.
Hersey, John (24 May 1954). "Why Do Students Bog Down on First R?". Life. Retrieved 8 November 2013.
Lurie, Alison (1992). "The Cabinet of Dr. Seuss". Popular Culture: An Introductory Text. ISBN 978-0-87972-572-3.
MacDonald, Ruth (1988). Dr. Seuss. Twayne Publishers. ISBN 0-8057-7524-2.
Menand, Louis. "Cat People: What Dr. Seuss Really Taught Us". The New Yorker. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
Morgan, Judith; Neil Morgan (1995). Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel. Random House. ISBN 0-679-41686-2.
Nel, Philip (2007). The Annotated Cat: Under the Hats of Seuss And His Cats. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-375-83369-4.
Nel, Philip (2004). Dr. Seuss: American Icon. Continuum Publishing. ISBN 0-8264-1434-6.
Pease, Donald E. (2010). Theodor Seuss Geisel. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-532302-3.
Seuss, Dr. (17 November 1957). "How Orlo Got His Book". In Nel, Philip. The Annotated Cat: Under the Hats of Seuss And His Cats. Random House. pp. 167–169. ISBN 978-0-375-83369-4.
Seuss, Dr. (17 November 1957). "My Hassle With the First Grade Language". In Nel, Philip. The Annotated Cat: Under the Hats of Seuss And His Cats. Random House. pp. 170–173. ISBN 978-0-375-83369-4.
show
v
t
e
Dr. Seuss
Characters
The Cat in the Hat
The Grinch
Horton the Elephant
Bartholomew Cubbins
Bibliography
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
The King's Stilts
The Seven Lady Godivas
Horton Hatches the Egg
McElligot's Pool
Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose
Bartholomew and the Oobleck
If I Ran the Zoo
Scrambled Eggs Super!
Horton Hears a Who!
On Beyond Zebra!
If I Ran the Circus
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
The Cat in the Hat
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
Happy Birthday to You!
Green Eggs and Ham
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
The Sneetches and Other Stories
Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book
Dr. Seuss's ABC
Hop on Pop
Fox in Socks
I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew
I Wish That I Had Duck Feet 1
Come over to My House 1
The Foot Book
I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories
My Book about ME
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?: Dr. Seuss's Book of Wonderful Noises!
The Lorax
Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!
Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
The Shape of Me and Other Stuff
There's a Wocket in My Pocket
Great Day for Up!
Wacky Wednesday 1
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
The Cat's Quizzer
I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
Oh Say Can You Say?
Hunches in Bunches
The Butter Battle Book
You're Only Old Once!
I Am Not Going to Get Up Today!
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Daisy-Head Mayzie 2
My Many Colored Days 2
Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! 2
The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories 2
Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories 2
What Pet Should I Get? 2
Adaptations
Television series
The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show (1956–57)
The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss (1996–98) (episodes)
Gerald McBoing-Boing (2005–07)
The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! (2010–present) (episodes)
Green Eggs and Ham (2018)
Television specials
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
Horton Hears a Who! (1970)
The Cat in the Hat (1971)
The Lorax (1972)
Dr. Seuss on the Loose (1973)
The Hoober-Bloob Highway (1975)
Halloween Is Grinch Night (1977)
Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You? (1980)
The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat (1982)
The Butter Battle Book (1989)
In Search of Dr. Seuss (1994)
Daisy-Head Mayzie (1995)
Film
Horton Hatches the Egg (short; 1942)
Gerald McBoing-Boing (short; 1950)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
The Cat in the Hat (2003)
Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
The Lorax (2012)
The Grinch (2018)
The Cat in the Hat (TBA)
Other media
Welcome (Russian short film)
Seussical (musical)
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical
The Grinch (video game)
Dr. Seuss: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (video game)
"You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" (song)
The Lorax (play)
Other works
Private Snafu
The Pocket Book of Boners
Your Job in Germany
Our Job in Japan
Design for Death
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Hejji
Society of Red Tape Cutters
Flit
Related
A Fish out of Water
Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum
Beginner Books
Dr. Seuss Goes to War
The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss National Memorial
Geisel Award
Geisel Library
Geisel School of Medicine
Helen Palmer
PM
Political messages of Dr. Seuss
Read Across America
Seuss Landing
1 as "Theo. LeSieg". 2 Posthumous.
show
v
t
e
Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (1957)
Live-action film
The Cat in the Hat (2003)
Television
The Cat in the Hat (1971)
Dr. Seuss on the Loose (1973)
The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat (1982)
In Search of Dr. Seuss (1994)
The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! (2010–present)
episodes
Books
The Cat in the Hat
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
The Cat's Quizzer
I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
Daisy-Head Mayzie
Stage
Seussical
Related
Dr. Seuss Memorial
I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories
In Search of Dr. Seuss (1994)
show
v
t
e
Books I Love Best Yearly: Early Readers Award
Superfudge by Judy Blume (1990)
The BFG by Roald Dahl (1991)
Unreal! by Paul Jennings (1992)
The Witches by Roald Dahl (1993)
Undone! by Paul Jennings (1994)
The Lion King by Gina Ingoglio (1995)
Where's Wally? by Martin Handford (1996)
Bamboozled by David Legge (1997)
The Midnight Gang by Margaret Wild and Ann James (1998)
Gasp! by Terry Denton (1999)
Grandad's Teeth by Rod Clement (2000)
Where's Wally? by Martin Handford (2001)
Buffy - An Adventure Story by Bob Graham (2002)
The Very Blue Thingamajig by Narelle Oliver (2003)
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss (2004)
Old Tom's Holiday by Leigh Hobbs (2005)
Baby Boomsticks by Margaret Wild (2006)
Children's literature portal
1950s portal
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Cat_in_the_Hat&oldid=853743768"
Categories:
1957 children's books
Books by Dr. Seuss
Fictional cats
Literature featuring anthropomorphic characters
Dr. Seuss characters
Fictional characters introduced in 1957
BILBY Award-winning works
Cat mascots
American picture books
Cats in literature
Books adapted into films
Hidden categories:
CS1 Latin-language sources (la)
Pages using citations with accessdate and no URL
Good articles
Navigation menu
Personal tools
Not logged in
Talk
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Namespaces
Article
Talk
Variants
Views
Read
Edit
View history
More
Search
Navigation
Main page
Contents
Featured content
Current events
Random article
Donate to Wikipedia
Wikipedia store
Interaction
Help
About Wikipedia
Community portal
Recent changes
Contact page
Tools
What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Wikidata item
Cite this page
Print/export
Create a book
Download as PDF
Printable version
In other projects
Wikimedia Commons
Languages
Afrikaans
العربية
Asturianu
Bân-lâm-gú
Башҡортса
Čeština
Cymraeg
Español
Français
Galego
Bahasa Indonesia
Italiano
עברית
Latina
Malagasy
മലയാളം
Norsk
Polski
Português
Русский
Simple English
Svenska
Türkçe
Українська
ייִדיש
中文
17 more
Edit links
This page was last edited on 6 August 2018, at 18:50 (UTC).
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
Privacy policy
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Contact Wikipedia
Developers
Cookie statement
Mobile view
Enable previews

key: html

type: local

value: div

attrs: id class

values: mw-page-base noprint

values: mw-head-base noprint

value: a

value: img

attrs: alt src width height srcset data-file-width data-file-height

values: This is a good article. Follow the link for more information.

attrs: href title

attrs: class id

value: i

attrs: id class lang

values: firstHeading firstHeading en

values: siteSub noprint

attrs: class href

values: mw-jump-link #mw-head

values: mw-jump-link #p-search

attrs: role class

values:
note
hatnote navigation-not-searchable

value: p

value: span

attrs: class title

value: caption

attrs: href class

value: td

value: tr

values:
/wiki/Houghton_Mifflin
mw-redirect
Houghton Mifflin

values:
nofollow
external text
https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/304833

values:
/wiki/Children%27s_book
mw-redirect
Children's book

values: checkbox button toctogglecheckbox toctogglecheckbox display:none

attrs: alt src width height class srcset data-file-width data-file-height

values:
/wiki/Helen_Palmer_Geisel
mw-redirect
Helen Palmer Geisel

values:
/wiki/Minstrel_shows
mw-redirect
Minstrel shows

values:
/wiki/Illumination_Entertainment
mw-redirect
Illumination Entertainment

values:
/wiki/Audrey_Geisel
mw-redirect
Audrey Geisel

values: The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!

values:
/wiki/Islands_of_Adventure
mw-redirect
Islands of Adventure

values:
nofollow
http://www.nea.org/grants/13154.htm/
external text

values: Continuum International Publishing Group

values: I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew

values: Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!

values: List of The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss episodes

values: List of The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! episodes

values: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (TV special)

values: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000 film)

values: Dr. Seuss: How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

values: nowraplinks hlist collapsible collapsed navbox-inner mw-collapsible mw-collapsed mw-made-collapsible

values: nowraplinks collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner mw-collapsible mw-made-collapsible mw-collapsed

values:
/wiki/Bob_Graham_(author_/_illustrator)
mw-redirect
Bob Graham (author / illustrator)

values:
noprint metadata navbox
navigation
Portals
font-weight:bold;padding:0.4em 2em

values: Category:Literature featuring anthropomorphic characters

values: Category:Fictional characters introduced in 1957

values: Category:CS1 Latin-language sources (la)

values: Category:Pages using citations with accessdate and no URL

values: Discussion about edits from this IP address [ctrl-alt-n]

values: A list of edits made from this IP address [ctrl-alt-y]

values: You are encouraged to create an account and log in; however, it is not mandatory

values: You're encouraged to log in; however, it's not mandatory. [ctrl-alt-o]

values:
/wiki/The_Cat_in_the_Hat
View the content page [ctrl-alt-c]
c

values: Discussion about the content page [ctrl-alt-t]

values: p-namespaces navigation vectorTabs p-namespaces-label

values:
p-variants
navigation
vectorMenu emptyPortlet
p-variants-label

values: Past revisions of this page [ctrl-alt-h]

values: p-views navigation vectorTabs p-views-label

values:
p-cactions
navigation
vectorMenu emptyPortlet
p-cactions-label

values:
mw-wiki-logo
/wiki/Main_Page
Visit the main page

values:
/wiki/Main_Page
Visit the main page [ctrl-alt-z]
z

values: Featured content – the best of Wikipedia

values: portal navigation p-wikibase-otherprojects p-wikibase-otherprojects-label

values:
interlanguage-link interwiki-af
display: none;

values: القط ذو القبعة (رواية) – Arabic

values:
interlanguage-link interwiki-ast
display: none;

values:
interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan
display: none;

values: Ҡалпаҡлы Бесәй – Bashkir

values:
interlanguage-link interwiki-ba
display: none;

values:
interlanguage-link interwiki-cs
display: none;

values:
interlanguage-link interwiki-cy
display: none;

values:
interlanguage-link interwiki-gl
display: none;

values: חתול תעלול – Hebrew

values:
interlanguage-link interwiki-he
display: none;

values:
interlanguage-link interwiki-la
display: none;

values:
interlanguage-link interwiki-mg
display: none;

values: ദി ക്യാറ്റ് ഇൻ ദി ഹാറ്റ് – Malayalam

values:
interlanguage-link interwiki-ml
display: none;

values:
interlanguage-link interwiki-no
display: none;

values:
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kot_Prot
Kot Prot – Polish
pl
pl
interlanguage-link-target

values:
interlanguage-link interwiki-pl
display: none;

values: Кот в шляпе – Russian

values:
interlanguage-link interwiki-simple
display: none;

values:
interlanguage-link interwiki-sv
display: none;

values: Кіт у капелюсі – Ukrainian

values:
interlanguage-link interwiki-uk
display: none;

values: די קאץ דער פאיאץ – Yiddish

values:
interlanguage-link interwiki-yi
display: none;

values: All languages (initial selection from common choices by you and others)

values: /static/images/wikimedia-button-1.5x.png 1.5x, /static/images/wikimedia-button-2x.png 2x

values: /static/images/poweredby_mediawiki_132x47.png 1.5x, /static/images/poweredby_mediawiki_176x62.png 2x

values:
suggestions
display: none; font-size: 13px;

values: mediawiki ltr sitedir-ltr mw-hide-empty-elt ns-0 ns-subject page-The_Cat_in_the_Hat rootpage-The_Cat_in_the_Hat skin-vector action-view


text:
Rick Deckard
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Rick Deckard
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? character
Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard in the 1982 film
First appearance
Novel:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
Film:
Blade Runner (1982)
Last appearance
Novel:
Eye and Talon (2000)
Film:
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Created by
Philip K. Dick
Portrayed by
Harrison Ford
Voiced by
James Purefoy (radio)
Information
Gender
Male
Occupation
Police officer / bounty hunter
Affiliation
San Francisco Police Department (Book)
Los Angeles Police Department (Film)
Family
Ana Stelline (daughter, with Rachael)
Spouse(s)
Iran Deckard
Significant other(s)
Rachael
Homeworld
Earth
Rick Deckard is a fictional character, the protagonist of Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Harrison Ford portrayed the character in the 1982 film adaptation, Blade Runner, and reprised his role in the 2017 sequel, Blade Runner 2049. James Purefoy voiced the character in the 2014 BBC Radio 4 adaptation.[1]
Contents
[hide]
1 Overview
2 Adaptation
2.1 Blade Runner
2.2 Blade Runner 2049
3 References
Overview[edit]
Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter who becomes a specialist plainclothes police officer with the San Francisco Police Department in the early 21st century, responsible for killing (euphemistically, "retiring") androids that escape from off-world colonies. In the film adaptation, he was/is with the Replicant Detection Division (i.e. Blade Runner unit) of the Los Angeles Police Department. In both novel and film versions, he begins the story as a selfish, self-involved cop who seemingly sees no value in android life. In the novel, his experiences cause him to develop empathy toward androids and all living things. It is implied in the film that he had already begun to undergo this change prior to the start of the film, causing his original resignation some time (around May 2019) before its opening.
Deckard is married to Iran, one of the more empathetic characters in the novel. She descends into a depression over the state of humanity, and is able to find the empathy necessary to care for an electric toad at the end of the novel.[2]
Adaptation[edit]
Blade Runner[edit]
Harrison Ford portrayed Deckard in the 1982 film. In the film, the bounty hunters are replaced by special police personnel called "Blade Runners", and the androids are called "replicants", terms not used in the original novel. The novel depicts Deckard as an obsequious and officious underling who is human and has a wife, but because of the many versions of the film and because of script, the backstory of the movie version of Rick Deckard becomes unclear. Viewers have to make up their own minds as to whether Deckard is a human or replicant and therefore has a past. The voice-over in the theatrical release indicates Deckard is divorced, as it mentions an ex-wife. However the voice-over has been removed from subsequent versions and so this detail is not mentioned. If the viewer takes the perspective that Deckard is a replicant then the "ex-wife" only becomes an implanted memory.
Blade Runner 2049[edit]
Ford reprised the role for the sequel, portraying an older Deckard who is hiding in the radioactive ruins of Las Vegas, violently resisting intrusion. Prior to the events of the film, Deckard’s replicant lover Rachael became pregnant with his child, which she died giving birth to. Deckard was forced to leave the child, a girl, with a replicant freedom movement and scrambled the child’s birth records to protect her before disappearing. The pursuit of the child by different groups is the main driving force of the plot. At the end of the film, Deckard finally meets his daughter Ana Stelline, a scientist who designs memories for replicants.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b047cz98
Jump up ^ "Novel Character Summaries". GradeSaver LLC. Retrieved 2012-10-11.
[hide]
v
t
e
Blade Runner
Adaptation of a work by Philip K. Dick
Novels
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Edge of Human
Replicant Night
Eye and Talon
Feature films
Blade Runner
themes
versions
soundtrack
tears in rain monologue
Blade Runner 2049
soundtrack
Short films
2036: Nexus Dawn
2048: Nowhere to Run
Blade Runner Black Out 2022
Video games
Blade Runner (1985)
Blade Runner (1997)
Comics
A Marvel Comics Super Special: Blade Runner
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (comic book)
Dust to Dust
Characters
Rick Deckard
Replicants
Category
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rick_Deckard&oldid=838846574"
Categories:
Blade Runner
Characters in American novels of the 20th century
Characters in written science fiction
Fictional bounty hunters
Fictional characters from Los Angeles
Fictional characters from San Francisco
Fictional characters introduced in 1968
Fictional San Francisco Police Department detectives
Fictional Los Angeles Police Department detectives
Navigation menu
Personal tools
Not logged in
Talk
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Namespaces
Article
Talk
Variants
Views
Read
Edit
View history
More
Search
Navigation
Main page
Contents
Featured content
Current events
Random article
Donate to Wikipedia
Wikipedia store
Interaction
Help
About Wikipedia
Community portal
Recent changes
Contact page
Tools
What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Wikidata item
Cite this page
Print/export
Create a book
Download as PDF
Printable version
Languages
Español
Magyar
Polski
中文
Edit links
This page was last edited on 29 April 2018, at 17:29.
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
Privacy policy
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Contact Wikipedia
Developers
Cookie statement
Mobile view
Enable previews

values: mw-page-base noprint

values: mw-head-base noprint

values: firstHeading firstHeading en

values: siteSub noprint

values: jump-to-nav mw-jump

value: th

attrs: colspan style

value: b

values:
infobox
width:22em;border-spacing: 2px 5px;

values:
/wiki/Fictional_character
mw-redirect
Fictional character

attrs: alt src title width height srcset data-file-width data-file-height

values: nowraplinks hlist collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner

values: Category:Characters in American novels of the 20th century

values: Category:Characters in written science fiction

values: Category:Fictional characters from Los Angeles

values: Category:Fictional characters from San Francisco

values: Category:Fictional characters introduced in 1968

values: Category:Fictional San Francisco Police Department detectives

values: Category:Fictional Los Angeles Police Department detectives

values:
catlinks mw-normal-catlinks
catlinks mw-normal-catlinks
interface

values: Discussion about edits from this IP address [ctrl-alt-n]

values: A list of edits made from this IP address [ctrl-alt-y]

values: You are encouraged to create an account and log in; however, it is not mandatory

values: You're encouraged to log in; however, it's not mandatory. [ctrl-alt-o]

values:
/wiki/Rick_Deckard
View the content page [ctrl-alt-c]
c

values: Discussion about the content page [ctrl-alt-t]

values: p-namespaces navigation vectorTabs p-namespaces-label

values:
p-variants
navigation
vectorMenu emptyPortlet
p-variants-label

values: Past revisions of this page [ctrl-alt-h]

values: p-views navigation vectorTabs p-views-label

values:
p-cactions
navigation
vectorMenu emptyPortlet
p-cactions-label

values:
mw-wiki-logo
/wiki/Main_Page
Visit the main page

values:
/wiki/Main_Page
Visit the main page [ctrl-alt-z]
z

values: Featured content – the best of Wikipedia

values: Find background information on current events

values:
/wiki/Special:Random
Load a random article [ctrl-alt-x]
x

values: portal navigation p-navigation p-navigation-label

values: Guidance on how to use and edit Wikipedia

values: About the project, what you can do, where to find things

values: A list of recent changes in the wiki [ctrl-alt-r]

values: portal navigation p-interaction p-interaction-label

values: List of all English Wikipedia pages containing links to this page [ctrl-alt-j]

values: Recent changes in pages linked from this page [ctrl-alt-k]

values:
/wiki/Wikipedia:File_Upload_Wizard
Upload files [ctrl-alt-u]
u

values: A list of all special pages [ctrl-alt-q]

values: Permanent link to this revision of the page

values: Link to connected data repository item [ctrl-alt-g]

values: Printable version of this page [ctrl-alt-p]

values: mediawiki ltr sitedir-ltr mw-hide-empty-elt ns-0 ns-subject page-Rick_Deckard rootpage-Rick_Deckard skin-vector action-view