Monday, October 09, 2017

The Boy Should Have Saved Some Wood for a Coffin

The Giving Tree by S. Silverstein.

What did the boy give back to the tree? And why was the tree so pathologically altruistic? In fact, the book seems to be the perfect Boomer book. Boomers seem to fall in both categories, though they may be altruistic more with other people's resources (including their children's) than their own. There are definitely Boomers who are just takers.

From 2014: “The Giving Tree” at Fifty: Sadder Than I Remembered

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