Earthbound story
When a family of benevolent humanoid aliens is stranded in the Midwestern United States after their spaceship crashes, a kind innkeeper and his grandson takes them in. Once word gets out that aliens have landed, Sheriff De Rita and Deputy Sweeney prove unable to handle the crowds. A government agent arrives who wants to assure that the aliens cannot intermingle with humankind.
22 total · 8 major · 14 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| alien living secretly among us | major | A grandfather and grandson helped conceal a family of four aliens from the public while they figured out how to repair they flying saucer and leave Earth. The aliens pretended to be relatives from Kansas City. |
| alien point of view | major | A family of four aliens saw humanity from an outside perspective. |
| facing organized pursuit | major | The feds were hot on the trail of a family of four aliens who had made an emergency landing near the town of Goldrush, California. |
| flying saucer theory of UFOs | major | A UFO was sighted and it turned out to be a flying saucer. It made a landing near the town of Goldrush, California. |
| friendship | major | Tommy befriended the alien boy Dalem. The teenage alien girl Teva befriended befriended human teenage female Rosie. |
| grandfather and grandson | major | The story centered around an old man named Ned and his grandson Tommy playing host to a family of stranded aliens. |
| telekinetic ability | major | The aliens regularly levitated objects, like pots, and even operated machines, like cars, using their minds. |
| what if I found myself in a strange place | major | A family of four aliens became stranded on Earth and had to work hard to repair their flying saucer and escape before the feds apprehended them. |
| brother and sister | minor | Dalem quarreled off and on with his older sister. |
| coping with the death of a parent | minor | Tommy's parents had recently died in an automobile crash. |