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Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree

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The Giving Tree has been translated into 30 different languages over time. It is about a selfless tree who loves a boy and always wants to give him everything even when she has nothing left to give. The book symbolizes the relationship between a mother and her child with the characters of the tree and the boy.
The tree liked it a lot when the boy was little because they spent lots of time with each other, like a mother she liked seeing him play. She never wants the boy to leave because that will make her sad and feel lonely. In the book there is one time where the tree wasn’t really happy. And this was when the boy makes a boat from the tree's trunk and sails away."And the tree was happy....but not really."(46 )The tree is always happy
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Shel Silverstein is telling his reader's a lesson that giving is better than taking, because the boy took advantage of the tree.The tree loves the boy so much that she'll give him everything she's got.The tree let the boy sell all her apples for money, use her branches to build a house, and use her trunk to build a boat and sail away (pg44).She is always the one sacrificing everything for the boy because she loves him so much. So the tree giving is better than the boy taking.
Even though the tree gave and the boy took they still loved each other very much.You can already see that the tree loved the boy but the boy loved the tree to because, even though he was going to her for wants and needs he still loved her. She basically raised him even though they didn’t see each other that often.I know this because throughout the whole book you can see the heart on the tree that says "M.E+T" (23-

end#) and it never goes away.The heart symbolizes their love since it stays their throughout the story.(pages 12-end)A mother will still love her child to end.
The key to happiness is making your loved ones happy. They might not always they

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