The Giving Tree Symbolism

There comes a time in every person's life where they learn to appreciate people who have helped them in the past. Whether their help made a big or small contribution to your life, you learn to appreciate it and them. It is that epiphany that I makes me connect with “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein so much. This age old tale about a tree and it lifelong adventure with her little boy. “The Giving Tree” proved such strong emotions from me because it makes me realize how blessed I am.
The strong symbolism in the book is easy to read and easily relatable. In “The Giving Tree” the strongest symbol is the tree. The tree in this book is the provider upon reading the book I associated the tree with mothers. In the book when the tree talks it is referred to as she. “Come, Boy,’ she whispered, ‘come and play.”(Silverstein) The tree also talks to the boy in a in a motherly manner by telling him to come and play. This shows she always wants him to be happy like any mother. Also when I think of trees I think of mother nature …show more content…
I will soon be going off to college and starting a life of my own so I probably won't have that much time with my mom any more. So that is why I should make this a special one for both me and my mom so we both have memories to cherish. I also want to try to keep good contact with her throughout my college career because she is the most important person in my life. Also I am her only child and once I am gone she could feel lonely and I wouldn’t want that to happen if I could prevent it by giving her a call. I love my mom and I never want to take advantage of her like the boy in the story did. That why I feel as though this book has let to my own metamorphosis in not only the way I treat my mom but people who have help med in life in general. This is the point I that Silverstein was trying to make and I am glad I discovered this before it was too