Theme 2: In life it's important to respect his surroundings. A reason to support this theme is the quote “He liked the red jelly from his fingers. Then he crumbled up the empty bag and threw it at a fire hydrant” this quote was from page 1. And the last reason why he doesn't respect the earth is that he didn't separate the cans in the garbage. This was on page 4. 

Theme 3: In life it's important to be kind to the planet. A reason to support this is that he looked at all the futures with the protagonist being lazy and saw how it would affect the earth, thus he began treating the earth properly and saw a bright future. A quote to support this is that “ Walter looked up at the leaves, too and realized where his bed had taken him. This was the future after all, a different kind of future. There were still no robots or tiny airplanes.” 

The tone of this story in the beginning Walter is mean,disrespectful, lazy, and apathetic. A quote to support this “After dinner Walter took out the trash. Three cans stood next to the garage, one for bottles, one for cans and one for everything else. As usual Walter dumped everything in one can.” At the end of the story Walter changed his personality by sorting the cans and planted a tree and this shows that he was more respectful to the earth now. Walter was careless because in the text it articulates “You must need this tree for something important “oh yes” they said then walter noticed the letters on the woodcutters jackets he could just make out the words quality toothpick company.” This is very careless because he just goes right back to sleep. Walter was peaceful nearing the end of the book when he said, “there was something very peaceful about the huge tree next to his bed.” This shows his peaceful attitude when he saw the nearing future of the world. His personality changed from the beginning to the end by his tone changing because at the beginning of the story he was reckless and didn't care about his surroundings. A supporting detail to this is when he littered. When he went to the future he was caring, respectful,l and he was filled with gratitude towards the earth. A supporting detail to this is when he fixed all the mistakes he made the previous day.