The book The Giving Tree is a sad yet happy story. In the beginning of the book a young boy meets a special tree and they instantly become lifelong friends. The boy would eat the tree's apples, climb from it's branches, rest in the tree's shade, and play hide and seek hiding behind the tree's roots. The boy would come back to visit and play with the tree everyday for many years, but one day he didn't come back. Actually he didn't come back for a long time, practically 10 years. When the boy... when the man came back he told the tree," I have a wife now. I have a child now. I need a home of my own now." The tree offered him his trunk and the man accepted all that was left of the tree were branches, apples and a stump. Every few years the young man, the old man, and the senior came back and asked for something until all that was left of the tree was a stump. Finally the boy came back one last time. All he did was sit on the stump and talk to the tree, and with that the boy left the tree one last time.
I think the author, Shel Silverstein, used this book to symbolize the change in a person as they grow up, one minute their playing with you, and the next they are gone forever. Like I said in the beginning of my review, this book is very sad yet happy and heartfelt because of how happy the boy is in the beginning but how sad the tree is in the middle of the book. I wouldn't call the ending sad or happy, to me it's just... peaceful.
I would recommend this book for every age because this book only has things to teach you about. I would say that the theme of The Giving Tree is kindness because the tree was kind to the boy through thick and thin even the boy never once even thought about thanking the tree. That just goes to show that you may not ever get back what you have put out in the world.
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