5 Paragraph Essay: The Giving Tree

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Imagine what it would be like to have an actual living tree giving you things to help you live your life. To get money or to build things. “The Giving Tree” was about was that the tree was supposed to be your mother and or father and that they’d do anything for they’re child to grow up and live a good life The tree in the “giving tree” has to be about how the tree supports him and helps him live his life. How the tree gives him thing’s to run a business or to give him money to afford all the things he wants That the tree represents your mother and how she supports the boy throughout his life. She gave him apples to sell and get himself some money. She gave him her branches so he can build a house and have a family. She gave him her trunk so he can make a boat and sail away. All these thing’s are the reason I think it is supposed to represent a mother, because all through your life …show more content…

Your mother would either give you money or help you earn some so you could buy what you want. Wouldn’t your mother give you some money so you could buy yourself something you really wanted? If she never gave you any money should at least help you work for some, like what the tree did by giving the boy apples so he can sell them and get some money to spend and have some fun. She acts almost exactly like a mother because she’d give the boy anything he wanted. Gave him everything she could give so he could live his life. The tree is like a mother by sacrificing the things she had so the boy can live his life how he wanted to live it. That the giving tree is lonely, that she has no one there with her like the boy was when he was a child Every single time the boy visited when he was older. He only asked for thing’s. He never spent time with the tree. All he did was take. He only took for the good of himself. He never did anything for the tree or give her anything in

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