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** The boy only takes what is given. The other trees did not give him their wood.
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** The boy only takes what is given. The other trees did not give him their wood.wood.
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* The boy and the tree apparently played hide-and-seek with each other when he was younger, but the tree, who can't move, wouldn't be able to hide ''or'' seek properly.
* When the boy is a teenager, he picks all the tree's apples to sell, and in the following parts the tree is shown not to have apples anymore. There's no reason that the tree wouldn't have regrown her apples if the boy has been gone for years, unless someone else was also picking them.
** [[WildMassGuessing Maybe it was still spring when the boy came back as a young adult and the apples were still flowers?]]
* When the boy visits the tree as an adult, he asks her to give him a house, and she replies that she has no house to give, because her "house" is the forest she lives in. In other words, she's ''surrounded by other trees''.[[note]](Presumably; we never see them in the book's illustrations.)[[/note]] Out of all these trees, why would the boy choose the tree that was his friend throughout his childhood as the one to cut all the branches off of?
** At her insistence, mostly. Note only that he asks for her help; it's her idea to remove the branches for him to build a house.
** Presumably for the same reason someone in need of cash asks a friend or family member instead of some random stranger.
** The boy only takes what is given. The other trees did not give him their wood.
* When the boy is a teenager, he picks all the tree's apples to sell, and in the following parts the tree is shown not to have apples anymore. There's no reason that the tree wouldn't have regrown her apples if the boy has been gone for years, unless someone else was also picking them.
** [[WildMassGuessing Maybe it was still spring when the boy came back as a young adult and the apples were still flowers?]]
* When the boy visits the tree as an adult, he asks her to give him a house, and she replies that she has no house to give, because her "house" is the forest she lives in. In other words, she's ''surrounded by other trees''.[[note]](Presumably; we never see them in the book's illustrations.)[[/note]] Out of all these trees, why would the boy choose the tree that was his friend throughout his childhood as the one to cut all the branches off of?
** At her insistence, mostly. Note only that he asks for her help; it's her idea to remove the branches for him to build a house.
** Presumably for the same reason someone in need of cash asks a friend or family member instead of some random stranger.
** The boy only takes what is given. The other trees did not give him their wood.
