A lot of people have at least heard of The Giving Tree, if they haven't read it. I read it for the first time at a friend's house, when I was about 6-8 years old. Most people love the book, I just felt really depressed after reading it.
The Giving Tree is a story of a boy who "befriends" a tree, who loves him very much. As a boy, he eats its apples and plays on it. As he grows older, he uses the rest of the parts of the tree (branches, etc.) as resources, which the tree happily lends over, until he is finally so old and uses the stump remaining to sit on. The illustrations were all very done, but even as a child, I felt the ending was unfair. How come the boy didn't even pay back the tree for all she gave to him? And the tree herself ended in such a sorry state, all chopped up and gone to the boy!
What do you guys think of The Giving Tree? Do you agree that it's a good story but a sad ending?
The Giving Tree is a story of a boy who "befriends" a tree, who loves him very much. As a boy, he eats its apples and plays on it. As he grows older, he uses the rest of the parts of the tree (branches, etc.) as resources, which the tree happily lends over, until he is finally so old and uses the stump remaining to sit on. The illustrations were all very done, but even as a child, I felt the ending was unfair. How come the boy didn't even pay back the tree for all she gave to him? And the tree herself ended in such a sorry state, all chopped up and gone to the boy!
What do you guys think of The Giving Tree? Do you agree that it's a good story but a sad ending?
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