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What is "The Giving Tree" about?

Started by Savonarola, December 14, 2015, 02:04:57 PM

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What is the meaning of Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree"

It's a parable of Christian love
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It's an allegory of man's relationship with the environment
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It's an allegory about friendship
2 (11.1%)
It's an allegory about a parent-child relationship
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It's a satire
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The story has no meaning, it's nihilistic children's literature
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Valmy

#30
December 14, 2015, 04:42:47 PM
Quote from: katmai on December 14, 2015, 04:35:55 PM
It is about a tree that gives, sheesh why do you people have to find any other meaning to it.

That tree had issues. Co-dependency issues.
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Razgovory

#31
December 14, 2015, 04:45:09 PM
Trees are not known for their robust decision making skills
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Admiral Yi

#32
December 14, 2015, 04:46:07 PM
It's an allegory about Jewish parental guilt-tripping.

The Brain

#33
December 14, 2015, 04:49:38 PM
What is The Bloated Meskimo about?
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Barrister

#34
December 14, 2015, 05:02:06 PM
Quote from: The Brain on December 14, 2015, 04:49:38 PM
What is The Bloated Meskimo about?

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mongers

#35
December 14, 2015, 05:05:50 PM
What about 'The Singing Ringing Tree'?



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The Brain

#36
December 14, 2015, 05:13:44 PM
Quote from: Barrister on December 14, 2015, 05:02:06 PM
Quote from: The Brain on December 14, 2015, 04:49:38 PM
What is The Bloated Meskimo about?

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garbon

#37
December 14, 2015, 06:39:52 PM
Quote from: katmai on December 14, 2015, 04:35:55 PM
It is about a tree that gives, sheesh why do you people have to find any other meaning to it.

Well presumably it was read at the first funeral I ever attended for a reason.
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MadImmortalMan

#38
December 14, 2015, 07:38:34 PM
It means that some people are never happy and if you keep making sacrifices to make them happy, they'll eventually make a boat out of you and you'll die.
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Admiral Yi

#39
December 14, 2015, 07:47:31 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on December 14, 2015, 07:38:34 PM
they'll eventually make a boat out of you

I hate it when that happens.

CountDeMoney

#40
December 14, 2015, 08:29:00 PM
Quote from: Valmy on December 14, 2015, 04:42:15 PM
My Dad made fun of this book so much reading it to me as a kid that I find it hard to take seriously now.

Now that explains so much, like why you became a pole dancer.

Ed Anger

#41
December 14, 2015, 08:34:10 PM
That avatar.  :lmfao:
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Scipio

#42
December 14, 2015, 09:34:02 PM
I hate that fucking book. Nihilism is a bitch.
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Siege

#43
December 14, 2015, 09:38:44 PM
You don't understand.


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#44
December 14, 2015, 10:56:33 PM
Quote from: mongers on December 14, 2015, 05:05:50 PM
What about 'The Singing Ringing Tree'?



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