Do you ever think that the book presents bigger ideas than what the reader thinks about it. Books can have different means that what you think about the book is really about. The tree and the boy is more than what seem to know about the characters and the book. The tree is like the mom/ parent figure of the boy and the boy is the son/ child of the tree.
Some evidence of this is, well all over the book in about every paragraph there’s evidence on both sides. Here are the couple of examples of some text evidence, “ i’m too big to climb and play’ said the boy. ‘’ I want to buy things and have fun’ do you have money? said the boy.” This shows that the mom just wants the boy to be happy and that she's acting like