"The Giving Tree" Is Much Sadder Than I Remembered

[Inigo Montoya]

I don't know if "sad" is the right word, but if you're a parent or if you lost a parent, that book gets a much deeper meaning.

Just read it for the first time in 20 something years and it hit me in the gut.

 

[Jesus X]

so homeboy sat on the trees face with his ass #50shadesofgrey


j.k dem feelz doe

 

[Jackonfire]

Shel Silverstein was quite the character. Besides kids books, he wrote songs as well as some adult themed poetry. He wrote the song A Boy Named Sue that Johnny Cash recorded.

 

[Ibis]

Pretty sure it's a metaphor for the tax paying middle class in a world of entitlements. But, then again, maybe I just see that shit everywhere.

 

[Bay Area]

I gave that book to my mom for her birthday 3 years ago. She cried through it.

 

[Bukowski82]

I gave that book to my mom for her birthday 3 years ago. She cried through it.

Oh, Man... The Feels.

Damn you.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

Its is an emotional book fo sho.

One of my favorites.

I bought it for a friend of mine after they had their baby. I hadn't read it in years and read it at the book store.
Totally bummed me out, lol. Still bought it tho.

 

[Bukowski82]

Its is an emotional book fo sho.

One of my favorites.

I bought it for a friend of mine after they had their baby. I hadn't read it in years and read it at the book store.
Totally bummed me out, lol. Still bought it tho.

Fantastic present for a new mother.

But yeah, that book brings the feels. That Shell Siverstein is a real cunt. =D

 

[AxeMurderer2010]

Yes it is, try "I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always". Try reading that without shedding a tear, go ahead, I dare you.

 

[44nutman]

I read it once to my daughter and then hid it.(IN laws bought it, so could not throw it away, so if they ever asked for it I could find it) It is a shitty story. The boy takes everything from the tree and then has the effing gall to sit on the stump.
I am all for helping someone out, but the tree got taken advantage. If I ever see the boy, I will give him a spinning heel kick to the face.
BTW Shel Silverstein used to draw cartoons for Playboy.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

Is this a sexual thing?

 

[El Moose]

Is this a sexual thing?

No, that's this one

 

[Fedorgasm]

I read that book to my daughter almost every night. Someday she'll really get it.. Probably after I die

 

[Darwinambrosius]

It's awful reading some children's books as an adult. That's key among them.