A dog runs away with Ben's hat and Ben, thinking Amos is still inside, runs after it to rescue him. Amos, who disdains it, stays on the bank. Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen: In one story, Ben goes swimming.When Ben asks why, Amos points out that not everyone feels satisfied with inventing without some food to go along with it. Forgets to Eat: In the middle of Ben's excited rush to finish with the stove prototype, Amos asks him if he goes past the pantry on his way back from the woodpile.Fiery Redhead: Red, a mouse who accompanies Thomas Jefferson in the same way Amos does Benjamin Franklin, has reddish fur and a passionate temperament that can erupt in rhetoric or in physical confrontation.Didn't Think This Through: When Amos and Ben first talk to each other, Ben defends the meager fueling on the fire with the maxim 'waste not, want not.' Amos points out that getting sick from exposure to the cold could result in wastes of time (in bed) and money (for doctors).Delicious Distraction: During the mission to defeat the aristocrats and rescue Sophia's children, the peasant mice see the luscious French food on the table and abandon the fight to eat it.Damsel in Distress: Sophia, a mouse Amos meets during his and Ben's stay in France, was chased from her home at court and separated from her husband and children, the latter of whom are in captivity.This solves the problem without putting anyone else in the electricity's way. However, Amos, realizing it's a bad idea to touch anything that might make them part of the circuit, nips him on the ear and tells him to stop the apprentice who's been turning the wheel instead. Cut the Juice: A variant when Ben's demonstration of electricity starts to go awry and electrify some of the spectators, Ben starts forward to do something.Babies Ever After: Multiple of Amos' siblings have families of their own by the end of the book.Asleep for Days: Amos sleeps for two days following the kite-flying incident.Absent-Minded Professor: Amos mentions that a hole Ben made in the front of the hat came in useful for Amos warning him about obstacles right ahead of him that he didn't notice.This book includes examples of the following tropes: Revere and I, by the same author, repeats the premise with Paul Revere and his horse. Amos stays with Ben through most of the exploits that made him famous, helping him and sometimes getting the wrong end of Franklin's adventurousness and insatiable curiosity. Bill Peet, who was working at Disney at the time, adapted it into a short feature for them in 1953, with Sterling Holloway providing narration and giving a voice to Amos.īen and Me chronicles the life of the famous Benjamin Franklin - from the perspective of a mouse, Amos, who lives in his coonskin hat. Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos is a 1939 book by Robert Lawson.

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