Who gave?

What is so arguable about The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein? There are plenty of things that anyone could argue about while reading any of Silversteins works. A person could argue that he is a children's writer and made his name known in Playboy Magazine, or that he publishes poems that have to do with the devil, sex, and drugs. This is very uncommon for a children's writer. If children know Silverstein for his works, …

…very well may have written this book to be controversial, but I do not think that he did that on purpose, or even expect it to be recognized. His works in Playboy were never dubbed too risqué for a children's writer, people that over analyze this book should be forced to read something that is worth arguing over. Not a story of a tree that loves a boy, and a boy that loves her back.