307- Picture Book

The Giving Tree by Shel SilverStein is a picture book that touched my life. As the boy and tree grow old, they grow together and help each other out. The tree cares so much for the boy and tries to help him in any way he can. As the boy grows older he does not visit the tree as much but when he does the tree gives him anything he needs. In the end the boy turns into an old man and the tree is nothing left but a stump because he has taken everything from the tree. The tree still says, “Well, an old stump is good for sitting and resting. Come, Boy sit down. Sit down and rest. And the boy did” (28). This tree does anything he can to help this boy which makes this story so touching of how they were involved in each other life’s throughout the years.