Analyzing Shel Silverstein's 'The Giving Tree'

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Who takes care of you? Your mother, father, grandma, grandfather, etc. Your guardians will do whatever it takes to keep you safe, fed, clothed because you are their first priority in any situation whatsoever. As kids you can be blinded by how much your parents do for you. In The Giving Tree, Shel silverstein uses personification to show the relationship between a mother and son.

One way that the tree acts like a mother to the boy is by providing the boy with money. The tree gave the boy apples for money.Since the boy got older he got bigger and he wanted to do different things such as wanting to buy stuff with money, so the tree(mother) provided the boy money to buy something."I am too big to climb and play" said the boy .I have only leaves and apples. Take my apples, Boy, and sell them in the city. Then you will have money and you will be happy said the tree." This shows that the tree(mother) cares for the boy and will do anything for him if he is in need. The boy is getting older and bigger so he can’t do the things that he could do when he was younger.The tree(mother) gives the boy apples because …show more content…

The boy is getting older again and he needs bigger stuff than just money for little stuff."I want a house to keep me warm," he said. "I want a wife and I want children,and so I need a house the boy said”."The forest is my house,but you may cut off my branches and build a house” the tree said.So the boy wanted family and a house to keep his family warm. The tree had no house, but the tree did have branches so he let the boy take her branches and use them to build a house.The tree gives her branches to the boy because he wants a family and house to keep warm. The tree shows the relation between a mother and son by providing things when he is in

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