Thanksgiving story
On Thanksgiving, the mean-spirited Calvin and his stepdaughter Dora find treasure in a dry well which is believed to be inhabited by a race of "hole people", which trade this treasure in exchange for things, specifically food. Directed by: Todd Holland. Story by: Harold Rolseth, Pierre R. Debs & Robert C. Fox.
5 total · 1 choice · 4 major
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| greed for riches | choice | Calvin and Dora discovered that they could get valuables by sending everyday things down to the hole people. Calvin's greed for gold got the better of him. |
| aliens eating people | major | The story culminated with Dora discovering that Calvin had been eaten by the hole people. |
| anger | major | Calvin had an extraordinarily short fuse. Among other things, he cut Dora's guitar strings in a fit of anger, denying her the pleasure of playing along on her guitar while she sang to alleviate the boredom. Calvin felt slighted by the hole people and subsequently went down to confront them with shotgun in hand. |
| father and daughter | major | The mean-spirited Calvin and his stepdaughter Dora established a line of communication with a strange race of beings that lived underground. |
| subterranean being | major | Calvin and Dora discovered a very deep hole that was apparently inhabited by some sort of intelligent life with which they communicated and bartered. Dora casually named them "hole people". |