One of the main ideas in "A Christmas Memory" is that true goodness and kindness are often practiced by people who society deems as lesser or unfit. Buddy's "friend," as he calls her (and who is his older cousin), is poor and an alcoholic, but she makes fruitcakes for people she has never met. Sacrificing what little she has and showing Buddy the wonderful gift of giving to others, she spends much of the Christmas season making cakes for President Roosevelt and other people to whom she wants to show kindness. The presents they make for each other, such as kites, are simple but inspired by love. In the end, the relatives who feel that they know better decide that Buddy has to be taken away from his elderly cousin and sent to military school, as they don't really understand the kindness and love that she has shown him and the valuable lessons about love that she has taught him.
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