The Giving Tree was published in October 7, 1964. This book is fifty-three years old.
The Giving Tree is about a boy who goes to the tree very often when he was young and when he gets older he goes to the tree less often. Every time the boy went to the tree he always asked for something and the tree gave the boy something always and always shared stuff while the boy did not. In the Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein uses personification to show that to give is more than to receive.
Tree is personified to show that the tree is like a parent.The tree is being personified to show that the tree is like a parent because when the boy comes to the tree the boy wants something and the tree gives the boy what he wants or the necessary stuff to reach his …show more content…
The tree continuously gives to the boy until she has nothing left.This paragraph is about the tree helping the boy all the time even if the tree did not have what the boy exactly wanted and helped the boy.An example is when the boy is a old man and he wants a boat and the tree gives the boy wood to build the boat and after giving the boy the tree, the tree does not have anything left and could not help the boy anymore.The example connects to the topic sentence because the tree would not stop helping the boy until he did not have anything left and gave out all of his branches, apples, and the trunk are gone.This is the reason why the tree gives the boy everything he has until the tree does not have anything left.
Shel Silverstein, in the Giving Tree, uses personifications to illustrate to all of us that to give is more than what you receive.The book is connected to the thesis statement because every time the boy went up to the tree, the tree made him happy every time the tree gave the boy something he could use to reach his goal.The tree is like a parent and the boy is like a child.
The boy cares more when he receives something and he does not want to give the tree and the tree cares more about helping than to