| rdfs:comment | - A selfless tree falls in love with a boy and sacrifices everything she has to make the boy happy. One of Shel Silverstein's best known works from an anthology of stories from a book of the same name. It is widely believed to be a metaphor for human, and especially parent-child, relationships. This story is absolutely made of Applicability and even young children at barely the required reading level can recognize this. In fact, if read without regards to the symbolism, the story is disturbingly laden with Fridge Logic and Fridge Horror. For this reason the examples are split into three sections.
- The Giving Tree was a Christmas Tree where a person had to write a note saying that the person wants something and put it on the tree. Another person has to take out any random note and give the person the thing they want. Greg Heffley once asked for money, but wrote that the person has to put the money under the bin because Greg knew Susan Heffley wouldn't allow anybody to give him money. It only appeared in Cabin Fever.
- The Giving Tree is a tale about a relationship between a young boy and a tree in a forest. The tree always provides the boy with what he wants: branches on which to swing, shade in which to sit, apples to eat, branches with which to build a home. As the boy grows older he requires more and more of the tree. The tree loves the boy very much and gives him anything he asks for. In the ultimate act of self-sacrifice, the tree lets the boy cut her down so the boy can build a boat in which he can sail. The boy leaves the tree, now a stump. Many years later, the boy, now an old man, returns and the tree says, "I have nothing left to give you." The boy replies, "I do not need much now, just a quiet place to sit and rest." The tree then says, "Well, an old tree stump is a good place for sitting and
- The Giving Tree (TGT) is a thread made to help people get dragons they do not have. People are added to lists of what dragon they want. You do not need to be on a list to gift. It is asked that gifts given to people via TGT are not killed, or have them traded away. It is also asked not to ask for new eggs until the list is added. The Giving Tree has a strict set of rules in order to make it possible to apply to a list:
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| abstract | - A selfless tree falls in love with a boy and sacrifices everything she has to make the boy happy. One of Shel Silverstein's best known works from an anthology of stories from a book of the same name. It is widely believed to be a metaphor for human, and especially parent-child, relationships. This story is absolutely made of Applicability and even young children at barely the required reading level can recognize this. In fact, if read without regards to the symbolism, the story is disturbingly laden with Fridge Logic and Fridge Horror. For this reason the examples are split into three sections.
- The Giving Tree is a tale about a relationship between a young boy and a tree in a forest. The tree always provides the boy with what he wants: branches on which to swing, shade in which to sit, apples to eat, branches with which to build a home. As the boy grows older he requires more and more of the tree. The tree loves the boy very much and gives him anything he asks for. In the ultimate act of self-sacrifice, the tree lets the boy cut her down so the boy can build a boat in which he can sail. The boy leaves the tree, now a stump. Many years later, the boy, now an old man, returns and the tree says, "I have nothing left to give you." The boy replies, "I do not need much now, just a quiet place to sit and rest." The tree then says, "Well, an old tree stump is a good place for sitting and resting. Come boy, sit down and rest." The boy obliged and the tree was happy.
- The Giving Tree (TGT) is a thread made to help people get dragons they do not have. People are added to lists of what dragon they want. You do not need to be on a list to gift. It is asked that gifts given to people via TGT are not killed, or have them traded away. It is also asked not to ask for new eggs until the list is added. The Giving Tree has a strict set of rules in order to make it possible to apply to a list:
* Keep your scroll visible at all times, eggs, hatchlings and adults. Even after you are on a list, it must remain visible so that we can make sure you are still eligible to be on a list. Fogging is allowed.
* Have at least five (5) adult dragons to be on the Commons list.
* Have at least ten (10) adult dragons to be on a Rares list.
* You may only be added to up to two (2) Rares lists at one time. If you would like to be added to another list after that, you must ask to be removed from one of the lists you are on.
* You may not have any of that type of dragon, if it is a rare. (That is, if you have a silver , you cannot be on the silver list. But if you have a gold and no silver, you can still be on the silver list.)
* Since alt eggs no longer have a separate sprite, to be on an alt list you must keep a bred one of that type of egg on your scroll, to hatch it to see if it is an alt. I.e., if you're on the alt black list, you must have a bred black egg on your scroll.
* Request for yourself as we do not add scrolls from friends/relatives/people with no forum-account.
* Bold your request (If you want to be removed from a list do also bold your request)
* Include a link to your scroll
* Include a way to contact you (PMs, AIM, MSN, e-mail, etc.) with your post. Default contact method will be assumed as PMs. If you must use a different contact method, state how you would like to be contacted when someone has an egg for you.
* Do not intend to freeze the dragon. We do not put people on lists with the sole intention of freezing the dragon they will receive.
* If you prefer a certain gender but are willing to raise it from an egg, mention it. If you decide not to keep it due to gender, please pass it on as a gift to someone else, preferably via TGT. If you are NOT willing to raise it from an egg, do NOT claim you would be. Do not use a gender claim to get around raising the dragon. If you are found doing either of these, you will be temporarily banned. Those requesting gendered hatchlings may be bumped from a list if there are people willing to take eggs instead.
* If you do not want a inbred dragon, mention it. Those refusing inbreds may be bumped from a list if there are people willing to take an inbred. If you get an inbred by mistake though you said you do not want an inbred you are allowed to gift it to someone else who doesn't care. Those who do not mention if they accept inbred or not are considered as "non inbred prefered but willing to take inbred".
- The Giving Tree was a Christmas Tree where a person had to write a note saying that the person wants something and put it on the tree. Another person has to take out any random note and give the person the thing they want. Greg Heffley once asked for money, but wrote that the person has to put the money under the bin because Greg knew Susan Heffley wouldn't allow anybody to give him money. It only appeared in Cabin Fever.
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