The Thanksgiving Visitor

"The Thanksgiving Visitor" is a story by Truman Capote about a boy and his bully problem. The book has a moral related to revenge.

Plot

10-year-old Buddy, whose aunt is his best friend, gets stopped on the way to school every day by local bully Odd Henderson. Odd pins him to the ground and then rubs burrs into Buddy's head because "he's a sissy", an appellation to which Buddy, who is the narrator, admits. To stop this problem, his aunt, Miss Sook, invites Odd to her big Thanksgiving party. During the party, when Buddy is sulking in his bathroom cupboard, he spots Odd stealing a precious cameo. When Odd leaves the bathroom, Buddy leaves and claims in front of the whole party that Odd has stolen the cameo. Miss Sook goes to check, and she claims that the cameo is in place, but then Odd admits to stealing the cameo, lays it on a table, and walks out. Buddy then runs out and sulks in the barn, until the afternoon, when Miss Sook teaches him that he shouldn't have publicly humiliated Odd.