The Giving Tree/Fridge

Fridge Brilliance

• When I was younger, I loved The Giving Tree because the entire book was and still is one big Crowning Moment of Heartwarming. Throughout the book, the tree calls the boy "Boy" even after he grows up and becomes a teenager, a man, a middle-aged man, and an elderly man. I didn't understand that until I realized that it was the tree's way of indirectly saying, "Even if you're too old to spend time with me anymore, I'll always see you as but the little boy that used to swing from my branches and eat my apples and nap in my shade." Awwwww.