Eva’s+Hero+Essay

THE GIVING TREE: This story reflects unconditional love, sacrifice and a true hero. It may seem like just a children’s book to you, but if you truly want and try to find the true meaning behind this book, you will learn what true love is and the devotion that this 1 tree had to a little boy. The author, Shel Silverstein, describes a tale of an apple tree who bestows little gifts to a boy she loves. Like letting him swing from her branches, giving him apples, letting him climb her trunk. But she does this to make the little boy happy. As the boy grows older he starts demanding things that the tree can’t give him, like a house, money, and a boat. But yet the tree still tries to give that stuff to him. For example she lets him cut down all her branches to build a house, she gave him her apples to sell for money and she let him cut down her trunk for a boat. And this time the tree is not happy. In the end the little boy come back and asks for one last thing, to sit on her trunk. And the tree was very happy. “THE GIVING TREE” can also resemble earth and earth’s ecology. What is happing to earth is in a way happing to the giving tree. We as humans are using all of what earth has to give us. Like we catch earth’s fish and hunt earths animals. But, I hope, earths still loves us because it still gives resources, but we polluted earth and we made certain animals extinct. So hopefully in the end of earths story we stop making earth a trash land and it will be happy.

How was Lincoln’s speech written, no one knows. Some people say that he started writing his speech on the back of an envelope while other clam that he put a lot of thought and time making his speech. But even though his speech was short and only took him 2 minutes to read it, it made a big impact on all of us. This speech that Abe Lincoln read reminds me of the story “The Giving Tree.” If you think about it the soldiers = the tree, Abe Lincoln = the boy. The soldiers fought for us and the land to be safe, the tree gave to the boy to make him happy. And in the end Abe Lincoln came and made a speech about the soldiers, the boy came back to the tree and made it happy.

The Little Mermaid

Boy did Walt Disney get this story wrong! “The Little Mermaid”, created by Christian Anderson, is a story about a young determined mermaid trying to get a human to love her so that she can gain an immortal sole. This story includes love, tragedy, sacrifice and SUEASIDE! This story shows that if you are thoughtful and selfless even in hard times, good karma will always repay you.

This story includes many characters, but the two characters that seem realistic to me were the little mermaid and the evil sea hag. The little mermaid, the protagonist, was caring to others, considerate, generous and patient. The little mermaid sacrificed herself so that the prince could live, and she was always very patient while waiting for her turn to go above the sea.

While the evil old hag, the antagonist, is selfish, wicked, malicious and conniving. The evil old hag cut out the little mermaid’s tongue and made her feel pain in every step she took on land. And she did this without pitting the little mermaid. She also slashes off the little mermaid's sister’s hair so they can slaughter a prince. Her ghastly behavior toward the little mermaid does not end up the way she wants it to end. The little mermaid gets what she wants, but sadly we don’t get to see what happens to the old hag. So let’s just say that since she didn’t get her way she must have human legs just like the little mermaid and had to marry the king but the king married someone else and the old hag turned into sea foam.

This story is about a little mermaid who wants to have an immortal soul but to do that she must marry a human. So she goes to see a wicked hag, who offers to grant her wish of getting legs. But the evil hag warrens her that every step she takes will cause her much pain, and that she must cut out her tongue and give it to her, for the hags payment, and she says that if she fails at marring a human then she will die at the humans wedding. So the little mermaid agrees and finally gets a chance to try to marry a human. But in the end she fails and is given a choice. She can kill the prince and turn back into a mermaid, or she can wait till sun rise and die. She chooses to die because she doesn’t want to kill the prince. But because of her selfless act she got rewarded with an immortal sole.