Alli F.

The Giving Tree

The tree is weak. I think the tree is weak because the tree won't even bother to tell the boy no when he is taking all her leaves, branches, and her trunk. An example was when the boy ate all her apples she didn't tell him to pick up the cores off the ground. Lastly, when the tree started to talk about the boy she started to lean over.

All the things he did wrong were climbing up her trunk. That was really bad. Say the tree is your grandma- would you run up to them and climb them? Also, another wrong thing he did was he carved a heart that said Me + T in it. I know that seems cute but it is not. That is like putting a permanent tattoo on someone. When the boy was older the love when the boy was younger that love died.

The tree loved to see the boy every day. Every day the boy comes running with his hands in the air, but sometimes the boy can be mean to the tree. One time the boy ate apples from the tree and then just dropped it on the ground like it was a piece of trash.

In the beginning of the book, the tree wasn't talking about the boy. On the next page it talks about the boy and the tree is leaning. That shows the boy is weak. If the tree was strong it would have been up straight. The tree is weak because she didn't have the strength to tell him NO to the boy. Also, each page the tree was leaning more and more. Also she would have asked to call the boy to play with her.

I think the tree is weak. I think the tree is weak because the tree won’t even stand up for herself and say NO. Also, when the boy just threw the apples on the ground. When the tree talked about the boy she started to lean. I believe the tree is weak.