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=== If read as a metaphor |
=== If read as a metaphor === |
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* [[Happiness in Slavery]] |
* [[Happiness in Slavery]] |
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* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: The Giving Tree, of course. |
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: The Giving Tree, of course. |
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* [[Rule of Symbolism]]: Things like the tree being able to talk as well as being alive even after being cut down are easy to [[Hand Wave]] if you take this story as an allegory. |
* [[Rule of Symbolism]]: Things like the tree being able to talk as well as being alive even after being cut down are easy to [[Hand Wave]] if you take this story as an allegory. |
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=== If read |
=== If read literally === |
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* [[Axe Crazy]]: The boy. |
* [[Axe Crazy]]: The boy. |
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* [[Just Eat Gilligan]]: Why don't you just get a friend that doesn't want to kill you, Giving Tree? Why don't you cut down a tree who ''can't'' talk, or at least one that's not your friend, little boy? This is spoofed hilariously [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYQavD9mSIc here]. |
* [[Just Eat Gilligan]]: Why don't you just get a friend that doesn't want to kill you, Giving Tree? Why don't you cut down a tree who ''can't'' talk, or at least one that's not your friend, little boy? This is spoofed hilariously [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYQavD9mSIc here]. |
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