The tree giveth, the tree taketh away
While reading The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein today:
Me: Once there was a tree . . . and she loved a little boy. And every day the boy would come.”
And then Peanut interjects: “He went to her every day instead of going to school and he didn’t learn to read so he couldn’t get a job and was very angry and had to sell her apples and chop her down for a house. The end.”
Well.
That certainly puts a new twist on that one, does it not?
Me: Once there was a tree . . . and she loved a little boy. And every day the boy would come.”
And then Peanut interjects: “He went to her every day instead of going to school and he didn’t learn to read so he couldn’t get a job and was very angry and had to sell her apples and chop her down for a house. The end.”
Well.
That certainly puts a new twist on that one, does it not?
Labels: NaBloPoMo, The Darndest Things
posted by Kimberly at
7:32 PM
5 Comments:
Haha! You WILL have to remind her of this when she starts dating.
Way to cut to the chase there, girl!
I thought I would never be able to read that book to my children because it makes me weep uncontrollably. However, this might help.
You've got a straight-shooter on your hands!
I love her take on it (and have thought similar things about that book...like if the tree were male and the boy was a girl, would the tree have given up everything for the girl/woman? Whole other conversation...).
Well yes, it certainly is a new twist! HA!
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