I wonder what it would be like to want a friend so badly that you would give them everything you had so that you could be friends. Well that is what the tree in “The giving tree is doing.”
From what the book had said the tree desired to have someone to be friends with so she gave him everything to be friends. We all want something, whether it’s something simple or big. The tree wanted a friend to stay with her forever, so that she could be happy, but the boy grew older and he was often somewhere else. He could not keep her company forever.
The tree is like a mother so she doesn’t want her son to leave her. “The boy grew older.” “And the tree was often alone.”
The tree is lonely so the tree would give the boy things so that he …show more content…
I want some money. Can you give me some money?” “I am sorry,” said the tree “But I have no money. I only have leaves and apples.Take my apples and sell them in the city. Then you will have money and you will be happy.” The gifts are probably the only reason that the boy kept coming back so she gave him more stuff. The gifts are something to keep them together, but some relationships can be broken even when they were once really good friends.
Friendship is great to have while it lasts but it is often torn apart for several different reasons. friendship is a strong relationship between two or more people it can last for a very long time or very short.
“I am too busy to climb trees,” said the boy. “I want a house to keep me warm,” he said. “I want a wife and I want children, and so I need a house. Can you give me a house.”
He was too busy and too old to do the things they used to do. They were together for a while then he grew old and grew apart.
In conclusion the book is great at showing how the real world is, it shows that you can’t always have what you want and it shows also shows that other people get better or more stuff than you and you shouldn’t depend on people to give you everything you