'The Giving Tree' is about people take advantage of other people and don't really take into consideration how the other person feels. They themself just wants to be happy.
I use to like to read Silverstein's books as a child. They were silly at times, But his some of his books like 'The Giving Tree' has a message or a moral.
Nearly all the former ones had become leaders by the silent suffrage of their fellows, had sought to lead their own people alone, and were usually, save Douglass, little known outside their race.
or a time Price arose as a new leader, destined, it seemed, not to give up, but to re-state the old ideals in a form less repugnant to the white South.
But he passed away in his prime. Then came the new leader