History Literature / ThidwickTheBigHeartedMoose

* AssholeVictim: At the end, the hunters decide to kill and stuff the guests once Thidwick leaves them behind. The book thinks they deserved it.

* AssholeVictim: At the end, the hunters decide to kill and stuff the guests once Thidwick leaves them behind. The book thinks they deserved it, and it's very hard to disagree.

* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Thidwick lets other animals live on his antlers. Unfortunately, these animals - who increase in number - take advantage of his hospitality, and refuse to leave. When Thidwick's herd gives him an ultimatum - get rid of them or be left behind - he still can't bring himself to be rude to his guests, and leaves. Still, the guests grow in number and size, inviting more guests, and refusing to consider the increasing physical and psychological load they're putting on their host. Finally, when a group of hunters comes after Thidwick, he decides to stand up for himself, and sheds his antlers, fleeing to safety and leaving his inconsiderate guests behind. The last page of the book shows them made into taxidermy specimens, still on the shed antlers.

* WalkingSpoiler: The Harvard Club hunters don't show up until the climax.

* TeensAreShort: The Zinn-a-zu Bird (implied to be a teenager) and the woodpecker (implied to be middle-aged) are implied to be the same species. Despite this, the woodpecker is much bigger.

* AssholeVictim: At the end, the hunters decide to stuff the guests once Thidwick leaves them behind. The book thinks they deserved it, and it's very hard to disagree.

* SurpriseCreepy: Most of the book is a standard Seuss story, but it ends in the guests being made into taxidermy.

* AssholeVictim: At the end, the hunters decide to stuff the guests once Thidwick leaves them behind. The book thinks they deserved it, and it's not very hard to disagree.

* LaserGuidedKarma: A rare Seuss comeuppance story. Multiple animals take advantage of Thidwick and locate to his horns, apathetic to the discomfort it causes and the potential of him starving to death. He eventually sheds his antlers, just as a pack of hunters pursue him, leaving him free to escape and all the animals on the horns caught and stuffed.
* LoopholeAbuse: Thidwick's guests argue that his horns are their home now and he can't relocate their home to the other side of the lake. At the end, Thidwick realises that this is the time of year moose lose their horns, so he simply tosses the horns off his head and says his "guests" are welcome to keep them while he goes to join his herd.

* TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: The bug asks Thidwick if he can ride on his horns, which Thidwick allows. Then the bug lets on another "guest", and they bring in more, until poor Thidwick is supporting a huge number of animals. Furthermore, they will not allow him to go to the other side of the lake with the rest of the herd so he can get the food he needs.

* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Thidwick lets other animals live on his horns. Unfortunately, these animals - which increase in number - take advantage of his hospitality, and refuse to leave. When Thidwick's herd gives him an ultimatum - get rid of them or leave the herd - he still can't bring himself to be rude to his guests, and leaves. Still, the guests grow in number and size, inviting more guests, and refusing to consider the increasing physical and psychological load they're putting on their host. Finally, when a group of hunters comes after Thidwick, he decides to stand up for himself, and sheds his antlers, fleeing to safety and leaving his inconsiderate guests behind. The last page of the book shows them made into taxidermy specimens, still on the shed antlers.

''Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose'' is a picture book written and illustrated by Creator/DrSeuss. It was published in 1948.

Thidwick the moose lets a bug ride on his horns while he browses the grass. Unfortunately, this one act of generosity spreads into Thidwick having to put up with an increasing number of "guests", who make increasingly troublesome demands. Can the moose use his head to find some way out of the problem created by his big heart?

A Russian AnimatedAdaptation, ''Welcome'' was made in 1986.

* SacredHospitality: Thidwick puts up with an increasing number of creatures on his horns without complaining solely because they are guests, even though he didn't even invite most of them.

* RealityEnsues: Thidwick's guests can't stay on his antlers forever because he will eventually shed them.

* SacredHospitality: Thidwick puts up with an increasing number of creatures on his horns without complaining solely because they're guests, even though he didn't even invite most of them.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Thidwick at the end.

* {{Disneyfication}}: ''Welcome'' does not feature hunters and instead Thidwick just leaves the guests dazed and bewildered on his discarded antlers.

* WalkingSpoiler: The hunters don't show up until the climax.

* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Thidwick lets other animals live on his horns. Unfortunately, these animals - which increase in number - take advantage of his hospitality, and refuse to leave. When Thidwick's herd gives him an ultimatum - get rid of them or leave the herd - he still can't bring himself to be rude to his guests, and leaves. Still, the guests grow in number and size, inviting more guests, and refusing to consider the increasing physical and psychological load they're putting on their host. Finally, when a group of hunters comes after Thidwick, he decides to stand up for himself, and sheds his antlers, fleeing to safety and leaving his inconsiderate guests behind. The last page of the book shows them made into taxidermy specimens, still on the shed antlers.

* LoopholeAbuse: Thidwick's guests argue that his horns are their home now and he can't relocate their home to the other side of the lake. At the end, Thidwick realizes that this is the time of year moose lose their horns, so he simply tosses the horns off his head and says his "guests" are welcome to keep them while he goes to join his herd.

* AnAesop: Two for the price of one story. Through Thidwick, we learn that if you let someone [[TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity take advantage of your generosity,]] it can lead to your destruction. Through his guests, we learn that if you take advantage of someone else's generosity, they might stop being generous to you.

* {{Deuteragonist}}: Thidwick's guests all share this role to Thidwick's protagonist. This is how we learn two different aesops.

''Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose'' is a picture book written by Dr. Seuss. It was published in 1948.