Personification In The Giving Tree

looking back at everything your mom has done for you, do you ever regret acting mean/ugly towards her? Well the boy in this story does not seem to regret anything even though he takes everything she is still happy.In The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein uses personification of the tree to illustrate the relationship of a mother.
the first time you see the boy and the tree acting in a relationship(mother to son) the boy is happy and cheerful.by doing little kid things they grew close.He would gather her leaves and jump in them, he would climb up her branches and swing from them like he didn't have a care in the world.she would say “come boy” like a mother would say to her son so they could play together.they would play hide and seek he would sleep

under her branches, like a mom and a son would do, except the branches would be the mother's arms.as the boy was little he loved being around the tree but when the boy gets older and turns into a ttenager and a adult thinngs change.
The boy is now starting to grow up and is slowly drifting away from the tree. as a daughter/son would do from its mom. the boy goes to the tree just to get things he doesn't want to play with the tree anymore he used its apples to get money and used its limbs and trunk to build a boat and a house.she would tell the boy “come boy come swing on my branches and the boy would say” no i'm to tired to swing on your branches”the boy needed money but the tree didn't have anything to give so the boy took the apples and sold them for money but the tree didn't care she was happy.now that the boy has gotten older he no longer wants to do anything with the tree he just uses it for things he needs in life.