Resumo de The Hundred And One Dalmatians - 101 Dalmatians

The Hundred and One Dalmatians is a beautiful and movingtale of human and especially, animal bravery and love.

Pongo and Missis Pongo (or just Missis) are a pair of dalmatians. They live with the newly married Mr and Mrs Dearly, whom they also refer to as their "pets",and their two nannies, Nanny Cook and Nanny Butler. Mr Dearly has recently become quite wealthy, after getting the government out of debt and in return being exempt from payingincome taxes, and being given a house to live in.Quite soon after the marriage - Pongo and Missis were married at the same time, Missis gives birth to a litter of 15 puppies, including Cadpig, Lucky and Patch. The Dearlys are concerned that Missis will not be able to feed them all and the humans join in to feed them. Mrs Dearly looks for another dog to act as a wet nurse and by chance finds an abandoned dalmatian mother in the middle of the road in the pouring rain. She has the dog treated by a vet and gives her the name Perdita, from the Latin for "lost". Later Perdita tells Pongo about her lost love and the circumstances that led to her being abandoned in the middle of the road.Mr and Mrs Dearly are invited to a dinner party hosted by Cruella de Vil, an intimidating woman with one side of her hair coloured white and the other side coloured black. They meet her furrier husband and her cat,and are verydisconcerted by her suggestion that animals which are not valuable should be drowned, including her own cat's kittens. On top of that, she expresses an interest in having a dalmatian fur coat.Shortly after the dinner party the puppies disappear. The humans fail to trace them but through the "Twilight Barking", a form of communication by which dogs can relay messages to each other across the country, the dogs manage to track them down to Hell Hall, the ancestral home of the de Vil family in Suffolk.Pongo and Missis try to explain to the Dearlys where the puppies are but fails. The dogs then take the decision to run away and find them. They explain to Perdita that she should stay behind and look after the Dearlys.After a journey cross country they are met by the Colonel, an Old English Sheepdog who shows them Hell Hall and tells them its history. He tells them to rest overnight and that they will see their puppies the next day. They then discover there are 97 puppies including their own 15 and many others who later turn out to have been legally bought. They also discover Cadpig's love of television.When Pongo and Missis are already inside Hell Hall, Cruella de Vil appears and tells the crooks in charge of Hell Hall that the dogs must be slaughtered and skinned as soon as possible because of the publicity surrounding the theft of the Dearlys' pups. Pongo and Missis devise an escape plan and agree that they must take all the puppies with them, not just their own 15. They escape on the day before Christmas Eve.Cadpig is too weak to walk the long distance from Suffolk to London so she is lent a toy carriage by Tommy, the Colonel's 2 year old "pet". When the cart loses a wheel, they have a rest on the hassocksof a country church to escape the cold. The group almost meet Cruella as she drives towards a burning building; Pongo says that they need a miracle and find one when they are offered a lift in a removal van. Having previously rolled in soot to disguise their white hair, they are able to hide in the darkness of the removal van with the help of a Staffordshire terrier whose pets are the movers.When they arrive back in London they find Cruella's (empty) house. Her cat is still there and invites them in to destroy Cruella's collection of animal skins and fur coats. She gladly joins in as revenge for her lost kittens.The Dalmatians then return to the Dearlys' house where they are not recognised due to being covered in soot. They try again, bursting through the door and rolling around on the floor to get rid of the soot. Mr Dearly then recognises them and sends out for steaks to em.Later the cat drops by to tell them Cruella has fled.Also, she has also abandoned Hell Hall. It has been put up for sale and Mr Dearly buys it with a sum of money he has been given by the government for sorting out another tax problem. He renames it to Hill Hall and intends to use it to start a "dynasty of Dalmatians" , and a "dynasty of Dearlys" to take care of them.Finally, Perdita's lost love, Prince (the 101st dalmatian) visits. His "pets" can clearly see that the two wish to be together and allow him to stay with the Dearlys.

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