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Meaning Of The Giving Tree By Shel Silverstein

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Elbert Hubbard once said “Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to”. This quote relates to the poem “The giving tree” by Shel Silverstein. In this poem the tree loves the little boy so much that she gives him the ability to physically destroy her, while the boy grows to be more concerned in himself.
Saying please and thank you is a major consequence to success. Even though now days we only do things in our favor, saying please and thank you (in general having manners) cost nothing, while in other ways makes the other person feel better as a person. The little boy in the poem never seems to say either of those two words.
Just be there, you can not love someone, while never being there for them. When someone

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