The Giving Tree By Shel Silverstein

As kids, just about everyone can remember their favorite book or story. I grew up loving nursery rhymes about Humpty Dumpty and How the Cow Jumped Over the Moon, because they were funny. Whether they tell real or fictional stories, most children’s books often try to teach a meaningful lesson. Some children books teach about friendship, bravery, and diversity. While others tell us it’s important to love. In The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein tells a fictional story about a tree and young boy’s relationship. The tree and young boy established a very close connection, as the boy got older he began separating from the tree. Even though he separated from the tree, the tree still gave the young boy her last without question. This paper shows that this short story is a commentary about people’s transition from childhood to adulthood and the complicated choices or mistakes
The consequences not only harm the parent but affect the child as well. Loving unconditionally sometimes leads to enabling by giving the child so much they would not know how to handle problems on their own. All of the tree actions when she continuously gives to the little boy correlates to today’s parents who buy their kids things when they do not deserve it. In the story, the tree showed genuine love when she regularly gave items to the boy. On the other hand, the tree’s actions are similar to parents who are not in their child life but tends to buy gifts to make up for their absence. The book not only teaches parents but teaches children as well. Some of today’s kids have the same self-centered mentality as the boy. Kids are taught that their parents provide for them which makes them used to receiving so much they become less focused on being grateful. The book reminds kids to be appreciative of their parents not knowing what their parents go through to make sure they have what they want and