Personally, I like this simple story and have shared this story with some of my pupils before. This story is about a relationship between a young boy and a tree. The tree loves the boy so much that she gives him everything that he asks, even to the point of allowing him to cut her down so that he can build a boat to sail away. When the boy becomes an old man, he returns and the tree tells him that she has nothing left to give him. The old man says that he just needs a place to sit down and rest. The tree which is now a stump obliges.
Readers have reacted to this book differently. Is the boy too selfish? Is the tree self-sacrificing? The interpretation is up to the reader as I do not think that the author meant to prescribe a moral lesson.
~ Serena's Greenhouse
No comments:
Post a Comment