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Book Title
The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein
Author
Shel Silverstein
Summary
The story started off with a young boy that had a favorite tree. He constantly was hanging out with the tree and playing with it. As the boy grew up, he started to stop visiting the tree and the tree often felt lonely. Then one day the “boy” went to go visit the tree and the tree asked him to play with him but he said he was too old to play. The tree then gave the “boy” its apples so that he could sell them to make money for himself, which made the tree happy again. Then the “boy” left again for a long time and the tree grew sad again. Then he visited again as a man and told the tree he still couldn't play and all he wanted was a house, so he let the man cut his branches to help build his house. Then he left again for a while and returned as an old man. He said that he wanted a boat so she told him to take its trunk to build his boat. The years later the man came back as an even older man and the tree had nothing left to give. The man aid he didn't want anything but a place to sit and the tree was happy to let him sit on that last part left of it.
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Favorite Part
My favorite part was when the boy came back only to sit on the tree like he did as a boy. He was so caught up in the fact of taking everything from the tree and leaving it, that he never realized he wasn't giving the tree anything in return to make it happy. He was taking everything and giving nothing. So it made me happy to see the boy as a man coming back only to hangout with the tree instead of taking from the tree.