Symbolism In The Giving Tree By Shel Silverstein

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The phrase I chose from one of Shakespeare’s plays is “eating me out of house and home.” This phrase can be taken literal, in which someone is literally eating all of someone’s food in their home. However, I think it means someone is removing the nourishment and life from someone for their own benefit. This phrase reminds me of the children's book The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein in which the tree gives and gives to the man who grows old and all that is left of the tree is the stump. We all have a giving tree and for me is it my mom, she always does stuff for me over herself, and sometimes I am “eating” the nourishment away from her because I constantly want more. This phrase comes from Shakespeare play Henry The Fourth, believed to be written

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