Quotes From 'The Giving Tree' By Shel Silverstein

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The Giving Tree of Morals Learning brought me joy up until fourth grade because it seemed like after third grade things started going downhill. At Christmas that year I got a book from my Aunt Sue called The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. Little did I know that a book for Christmas would change my point of view on many things in my life. This book to me, the relationship between children and their parents. But, The Giving Tree also represent any relationship between two beings. There is a saying “give what you take”, but the boy in the story just took and never gave. The childhood book is hard for children to understand at the time, but parents tear up every time they read it, at least mine do. The Giving Tree talks about how a little boy would play with a tree. The little boy started to grow up and would want more from the tree every time that he saw the tree. The boy does this until the tree is just a stump that cannot give anymore to the boy. The tree tries to please the boy no matter what, while the boy doesn’t …show more content…
I wish that I could give you something… but I have nothing left. I am just an old stump. I am sorry” the boy replies with “I don’t need very much now said the boy.” This quote has an impact because to me it says that one should not take things for granted because it may be too late before one may know it. Such as parents, they can be taken for granted. Some children do not have parents that support them. Parents try to give all that they can to their children to help them with their future such as how the tree gave all it could to the little boy. Parents can run out of things to give but they always try to be there for their child. My favorite childhood book was called The Giving Tree. The novel was my favorite because it taught me a good moral. That moral is give what you can take. Follow this moral because one may never know how fast life can
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