The Giving Tree By Shel Silverstein

Carmen King is a performer who demonstrated us the story named “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein in our class with American Sign Language.Through Philip Wilson’s translate, we can clearly understand what is going on that story. Carmen King is an adjunct ASL instructor New York University, Columbia University, Sign Language Center, and LaGuardia. Active in Deaf Women United, Metropolitan Asian Deaf Association, and New York Deaf Theatre. Even Philip Wilson and Carmen King were meet in Sign Language Center. The best gift is language, You Say It Best, When You Say Nothing At All.

Firstly, this is to say, the most quiet class compare to classes I have ever experienced. Everyone in the class, they might not be aware of it, they were holding their breath. Until the whole performance was ended. Carmen King used sign language lead us into the story, somehow, you will experience from joyful to melancholy. The feeling from acting is more powerful than reading by yourself.
Throughout whole story, not to mention it’s an apple tree. Apple tree has only one friend, and when her friend was a boy, he used to play with her everyday. At this point, the accordatura should be cheerful and easy. However, time went by, little boy has more responsibility other than play with apple tree, but he usually comes with needs nevertheless. The apple as a giving tree, she was becoming weak and dispirited. In order to satisfy the request from little boy, apple gave up her apples, her branches, her trunk and left only the stump. The picture fixed at the moment when the boy sit down on the old trump and rest. Similarly, this story remind me of my parents, they are my giving tree, coupled with the emotion inside of story, my eyes were filled with