Title: Bad Life Lesson or Over-Amalyzing?
Review: The tree is portrayed as a female and gives everything to the little boy as he grows into a man with no thought of him giving back to her in some way. Basically, some have analyzed this is be male on female abuse. However, you can also look at it from a mother's perspective. The mother gives all she has, unconditionally for the most part, to her child. We wouldn't call that abuse.We call it Mother Nature and Mother Earth, so wouldn't it be fitting that the tree be gendered as female? And, for the most part, when this was written, it was "a man's world."Personally, I think this Shel Silverstein's little social commentary can be quite thought provoking for an adult and open up a dialect with a child about helping others.OR maybe we're over-analyzing. :c)
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