My position is, the Giving Tree is weak. First of all, she gives everything away telling herself she’s happy, but she isn’t really. For example, she gives away all her apple, branches, and even her trunk. All for the sake of a loved one’s happiness, but in the end neither she nor the boy is happy. Next is how she doesn’t know how to say “no,” evidenced by the fact that no matter what the boy asks for she gives it, without even a second thought. And last is how easily she is pushed around, like she
horror movie. Shel came running as fast as a race car to see what was about to be the most depressing sight in his life. The first moment Shel Silverstein laid eyes on his wife, he knew they would spend eternity together. But now, Susan was dead because of a cerebral aneurysm. A cerebral aneurysm is a brain aneurysm, in which, a weakness in a blood vessel in the brain fills with blood. However, less than half of the time, a cerebral aneurysm is not fatal. But for Susan, it was. And for Shel, this is not
In “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein, one is able to take a Marxist approach by making the contentious argument that economic and ideological circumstances are present throughout the story. Marxism challenges class relations through documenting the prevalence of power struggle within society. “The Giving Tree” includes characteristics that are thus deemed problematic by those who approach literature with a Marxist critical ‘lens’. In this short story, the idea that happiness is formed through