https://padlet.com/ff67256p/49qn842kjop8 en-us 2017-11-22 00:08:08 UTC 2025-10-02 02:33:25 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Xmastree.png ff67256p https://padlet.com/ff67256p/49qn842kjop8/wish/209299548 The Giving Tree is about a relationship between a boy and a tree. When the boy is young and free he comes to the tree to play and eat apples and swing from its branches. As the boy grows older, he finds different uses for the tree, and sees the tree much less often. When the boy needs money, the tree tells the boy to sell her apples. When the boy needs a warm place to put his family, the tree tells the boy to use his branches to build a house. When the boy wants to just leave and go somewhere far away, the tree tells the boy to use its trunk and build a boat. Now the tree was just a small stump with nothing to offer, or so the tree thought. The boy was an old man now, and all he wanted was a place to rest. So in the end, the old man sits on the stump, and the tree was happy.]]> 2017-11-22 00:13:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ff67256p/49qn842kjop8/wish/209299548 ff67256p https://padlet.com/ff67256p/49qn842kjop8/wish/209299841 The Gift of Giving.
Can you see how the tree is happy but the boy is not? The tree is happy because she is able to give the boy what he wants. The boy gets what he wants and at first he may be happy. However, in the end these gifts do not manage to keep him happy. Giving, and making people that you love happy, can be more rewarding than receiving any gift.

]]> 2017-11-22 00:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ff67256p/49qn842kjop8/wish/209299841 ff67256p https://padlet.com/ff67256p/49qn842kjop8/wish/209300053 Unconditional love knows no bounds. 

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.” “... and she loved a boy very, very much-- even more than she loved herself.” 

No matter what the boy did or how selfish he acted, the tree loved him despite it and tried to make him happy. Her love for him ultimately brought him back to her.]]> 2017-11-22 00:17:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ff67256p/49qn842kjop8/wish/209300053 ff67256p https://padlet.com/ff67256p/49qn842kjop8/wish/209300656 Greed 

Even though the tree is willing to give the boy what he wants, the boy should not have taken it. In the end the tree is left as nothing more than a stump. We should think carefully before taking what people offer us. They might be sacrificing too much in order to try to make us happy.

]]> 2017-11-22 00:22:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ff67256p/49qn842kjop8/wish/209300656 ff67256p https://padlet.com/ff67256p/49qn842kjop8/wish/209301218 2017-11-22 00:27:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ff67256p/49qn842kjop8/wish/209301218 ff67256p https://padlet.com/ff67256p/49qn842kjop8/wish/209301548 By Shel Silverstein]]> 2017-11-22 00:30:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ff67256p/49qn842kjop8/wish/209301548 ff67256p https://padlet.com/ff67256p/49qn842kjop8/wish/209301763 Shel Silverstein was an American poet, singer-songwriter, cartoonist, and author of children’s books. He wrote and illustrated The Giving Tree and did it in such an artful, yet simple way so the children could understand the pictures they were looking at. He was tremendously talented in both writing and illustrating this book, and other books, poems, and pieces. Silverstein died in 1999 from a massive heart attack. He is still known for writing and illustrating The Giving Tree which has been translated to many different languages and is widely popular throughout the world.]]> 2017-11-22 00:32:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ff67256p/49qn842kjop8/wish/209301763 ff67256p https://padlet.com/ff67256p/49qn842kjop8/wish/209302363 There are many conflicts in the story which arise. They include:
1. Man Vs. Society: The boy needs to keep up with other people around him to have the things they have.
2. Man vs. Self: The tree is lonely and sad without the boy.
3. Man vs. Self: The man realized all he did was take from the tree.

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