The Amigurumis Christmas (Part 2)

Part two of the Christmas story, where what was left open gets resolved. The Amigurumis end up putting together a celebration that belongs to none of the four but is a new one, made of pieces of all four, and that is the whole point of the story. The resolution comes by addition rather than sacrifice: nobody loses their way of celebrating, all of them get added. Ending that way, rather than with someone giving in, is what lets the story be watched again the following year without the moral sounding like a telling off.

What this piece works on

• •That adding can beat choosing, when the disagreement is about taste and not about right and wrong.
• •Narrative closure: recognising when a story has ended, and why.
• •Spotting, in a story split in two, what was left hanging from the first part.