Analysis Of The Giving Tree By Shel Silverstein

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How would your life be different if there wasn’t a mother there to support you? Many children rely on their mother to provide support, safety, and love. Throughout the story the boy goes to the tree for various things. In the Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein personifies the character of the treeto depict a mother figure.
A mother is always willing to help her child. The gives the bpy anything she can give him when he wants it to make him happy. She gave him apples when he wanted money and she gave him branches when he wanted a house. She helped him by giving him apples so he could sell them and have money and by giving hm branches because he can make a house. A mother will do whatever she can to help her child.
A child will take without reguard

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