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The Giving Tree
Its about a boy who can talk to a tree, wealthy and rich and bountiful. And at first the boy just likes to play on the tree
--- then he starts asking the tree for crap
---asks for an apple to make money
--- asks for branches to make a house
--- asks for the trunk to make a boat
---asks for a stump to sit on
and this kid never says thank you, not even once.
----but the tree was happy in the end
is this story supposed to be an allegory for the relationship between Israel and America.? Or the "you will own nothing and be happy" crap?
It's so simple that you can read anything you want into it.
Parenthood, Jesus, men giving their all to country, anything that involves a positive take on self-sacrifice. Or just take it as a pro-industrial allegory. Natural resources want to be used by mankind. The tree takes joy in being harvested. The ore takes joy in being smelted. They exist for mankind's benefit and are fulfilled by their purpose.
If Impy weren't banned, he could tell you that the child represents women and the tree is a simp.
it is a metaphor for parenthood
Yes, yes, I know. Silverstein's work was pretty unique, and clearly more personal artistic expression than the agenda pushing that became ubiquitous during his generation. Frankly I view all the controversy and attempts at literally criticism around "The Giving Tree" and his other works to be a bunch of fart sniffing. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. There's not a whole lot of space for Jewish or communist propaganda in a body of work that seems like a sometimes macabre combination of fairy tales, Belloc's children's tales, and Dr. Seuss.
Edit: Except when you make it like OP's post.
Sounds like a shitty story that conditions kids to give away everything they have to that one fucking neighbour that does nothing but mooch around the neighbourhood.
Unending demands for things they didn't earn, as per tradition