"Maybe I am" says Stanley. "Is it because you're an odd si…

"It's all about attitude! That's the key to success!" says the guide. Then he pulls out paint and a brush and paints a door to another cartoon.

So far, we have learned that the guide is extremely volatile, particularly around what he calls "negative thinking", which refers to the nasty names that the other children use on Stanley. This, of course, is not a very good way of handling intrusive thoughts. Stanley would be expected to become anxious around these names and repress thoughts about them in order to avoid the guide's anger. Repressed thoughts do not go away, however. Instead they return as projections. Thus, Stanley will start to read thoughts of him as a monster into innocent peoples' turn of phrase.

However, is negative thinking really Stanley's problem? Has Stanley, in fact, internalized the idea that he is a monster or is he just unhappy with the way he was treated? Stanley has said that "maybe" he is a monster, but overall his problem is much better identified with the other children than with his attitude.

The cartoon turns out to be an adaptation of Creole, the Serendipity book.

Creole is an ugly creature who hatched from an egg in a swamp with no known parents.

Her mind has nothing but thoughts of love and friendship, but the other creatures are terrified of her.

Her tears of sadness at being rejected wake up a sleeping alligator below her, who was the only one who didn't run away.

"Why didn't you run away like everyone else?" asks Creole?
"Because I hoped, " said the alligator, "that is, I mean, I was thinking... it would be nice.. gosh! If you... if you would be my, you know, friend! The other alligators all laugh at me because I, well, you know, I can't talk straight!"

"Oh that's just because you have too many ideas in your head at once," says Creole. "If you'll just concentrate on one thing at a time, you'll find you can talk straight just like everybody else." The two shared a friendship from then on.