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4.29 AVERAGE
4.29 AVERAGE
Makes me cry every time, because the tree should not give her all to someone who doesn't care. The tree is like a woman in an abusive relationship, and the boy keeps taking until she's given everything without ever once appreciating her. I find this book really tragic.
A sad book for more reasons that I can state. I kept wondering, "What does this teach children?"
Overview:
This book is about a tree and a boy. And things were good and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older, the tree saw him less and every time the boy came back to the tree he asked for something and the tree gave and gave and gave.
Thoughts:
I remember growing up with this book and every time I finished it, it made me think. Why would this amazing tree give this boy so much? Why does this boy ask for so much?
Without looking it up and seeing other peoples comments on it. This is my interpretation on it.
Overall this book is beautifully written and I love how simple the art but it's a nice kind of simple.
This book is about a tree and a boy. And things were good and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older, the tree saw him less and every time the boy came back to the tree he asked for something and the tree gave and gave and gave.
Thoughts:
I remember growing up with this book and every time I finished it, it made me think. Why would this amazing tree give this boy so much? Why does this boy ask for so much?
Without looking it up and seeing other peoples comments on it. This is my interpretation on it.
Spoiler
When we are young (and this isn't talking about every kid because everyone is different) we have a lot of curiosity and we are adventurous and want to see the world and everything is new to us. And this boy played and hung out with the tree. As we grow older though, we start to loose that curiosity and everything being new because we have seen a lot of it at this point in our life. And days go by quicker and so does time. We get caught up in life. And so this connects in the story when the boy isn't a kid anymore and doesn't come as often to visit the tree. Throughout this book the boy is greedy. He shows no sign of appreciation or respect to the tree. He just takes. And I wonder if that connects with society. We tend to take things and we are heavy consumers. And most people don't care or second guess where their stuff is coming from. Again this could well be incorrect or I might have missed the point of the story completely. But that's what I got from this book.
Always ambivalent about this story. Never read it to a class because I felt it said it is great to take advantage of people who love you. As I've grown older, I've viewed it somewhat differently, but not entirely.
Downloaded this and read it to my niece one night. She enjoyed it by quickly falling asleep (which I call an ABSOLUTE WIN,)
And it’s stil one of my favorite books.
And it’s stil one of my favorite books.
This book was given to me by my orchestra teacher. It is story about a tree that gives everything for friendship with a little boy all the way until be became an old man. This story is a lesson about unconditional love throughout the years.