Grotte-Personal Narrative

The trees

“Howdy! There’s no need to hide over there!” You flinched, before reluctantly slipping from your hiding spot behind the wall. After all, there’s no need to be afraid of the small flower. It seemed nice enough. It looked similar to the ones from the previous room with its golden petals, except it had a face; a face with a grin unbelievably large. “There we go!

Trees are important not only physically but also spiritually and for many this fact is lost. Physically trees provide humans with beauty and a healthy ecosystem. Spiritually trees provide humans a connection to nature. Their importance has been lost in our modern times as humans further separate themselves from nature. While forgotten by many, their actions still resonate. The two modern poems “The Tree Agreement” by Elise Paschen and “Living Tree” by Robert Morgan trumpet the value trees hold in comparable ways. In the poem “The Tree Agreement” the speaker argues for the benefits of the Siberian Elm against a disagreeing neighbor. By structuring the poem in this manner, the poet highlights how people are blind to the services trees provide while simultaneously highlighting said services. The tree is portrayed almost as a friend or ally to the speaker. The speaker describes not only to the significance of the tree to humans like the neighbor and the speaker but also to the other living creatures surrounding them. The poem “Living Tree” focuses on the actions performed by trees in cemeteries. This poem follows a more spiritual route when compared to Paschen’s poem. This poem describes the process those who have been buried go through and the role trees play in this process. The trees in this poem are portrayed as lightning rods for the chemicals and spirits of the dead. This relationship is portrayed positively, as the trees are a monument to the passing of life. These poems

I lived in Detroit before I had to move to Cleveland because I got expelled from high school. I’m an African-American 16 year old who is a greedy, and is a mean drug dealer. I used to be a good kid, but when I killed my parents the adrenaline in my body produced my true colors. When I came across a garden, something then caught my eyes: a teenager who looked like he was planting marijuana. Then a devious plan showed up in my brain. My plan was to befriend that teenager, who would then work with me in selling marijuana. I went into the garden straight to that teenager.

To Ernest’s horror, the tree

swelling from the old gnarled vines, cascade down to cover the trunks. The full green

Granpa takes Little Tree to the mountaintop at dawn, to watch the mountain “coming alive”. As Little Tree watches and feels the mountain awakening, he realizes that he and Granpa have “an understanding that most folks don’t know” (Carter 8). Granpa said, “Folks who laugh and say that all is known about Nature, and that Nature don’t have a soul spirit, have never been in a mountain spring storm. When She’s birthing spring, She gets right down to it, tearing at the mountains like a birthing woman clawing at the bed quilts” (Carter 102). Little Tree is taught to sense his connection with Mother Earth, so he will live in harmony with the land, animals, and other people in the world. Little Tree learns that everything in nature has a

People were rude and cruel to them, the town didn’t like new people. Their mission was to destroy the tree and collect three golden apples. This sounded simple to them, but soon they would find out this was much harder than expected. The tree could talk and it had a forever low face, it was as grumpy cruel and rude as all the people in the town were. The tree created all of the misery, pain and war in the world. They arrived at the tree it was the biggest tree in the world, it was treated as one of the gods because no one had the courage to destroy it and it was about as old as the

The relationship between the Tree and the family in the poem The Black Walnut Tree by Mary Oliver is conveyed as harsh and difficult. If they choose to sell the tree then it’s assured that the house will be safe, however, they lose a part of their history. If they do not sell the tree, then they have a chance of the tree destroying the house, but they are struggling to even pay the mortgage and cannot afford any more expenses. By the selected spacing of the poem, figurative language, and lyric this relationship dilemma is conveyed.

The trees are being cut down, and they are losing their homes. They must have trees to survive.

“The trees are columns of slick, brindled bark like muscular animals overgrown beyond all reason. Every space is filled with life: delicate poisonous frogs war-painted like skeletons, clutched in copulation, secreting their precious eggs onto dripping leaves... And in reply, a choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. This forest eats itself and lives forever” (5)

The tree itself is ancient; you have been told that most Fruit trees live, at most, fifty years, but this one has grown wide around the trunk and long in the branches. Despite its age, it still makes fruit. The tree makes almost every fruit in the world. Some say that this is the fruit tree after which the monastery was named, a true immortal tree. Other believe it to be a descendant of the original Fruit True. The Fruit Tree’s branches extend over a lake around the tree and reflects on it. It is normally a very peaceful spot, but now the atmosphere it thick. Abraham stands there with Master Shen, the oldest teacher in the

Leafless or Broken Branches: Unless it’s wintertime, a tree should have leaves, and a tree without leaves is most likely an unhealthy tree. Broken branches could be a warning that part, if not all, of your tree isn't doing so

The boy replies in a similar manner every single time the tree asks to play. By the third time this dialogue between the tree and the boy is said, it is possible to understand what is going to happen next. The recurrence of this event is not only stylistic, but it also helps convey the tragic relationship between the boy, a narcissistic taker, and the tree, a compulsive enabler. Not only does the recurrence of event display a hidden meaning, but symbols portray obscure messages as

Look at all those tree stumps; it’s as if a giant cut down the trees. Wandering the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, I noticed the fallen trees were devoid of bark and branches and some appeared cut, with a chainsaw.