Title: This book can perpetuate disrespect for nature and women!
Review: Although the story has a certain charming loving relationship between the boy/man and the tree, the details of the simplistic analogy are horrifying. As the male takes and takes from the giving female in the story, she remains forever forgiving and accepting that her role is to give without question or limit. She is used, abused, sliced, dismembered, and finally cut down (read: killed), only to powerlessly allow the male in the story to continue to take and abuse. In a final insult, the man sits on the stump and somehow the reader is told that the (dead) tree is "happy." This story, may seem like simply a "happy" tale at first glance to many parents, teachers, and gift givers, but it is a masogynistic metaphor for thoughtless deforestation and violence against women.
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