Time transcripts of Danielle_Lopezaudio

[00:00:00:00]	[ Interviewer ] Can you please say your name please? 

[00:00:01:27]	My name is Danielle Lopez.

[00:00:03:28]	[ Interviewer ] Alright, and what's your story going to be about today? 

[00:00:06:08]	Umm, my story's going to be on the book, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.

[00:00:10:23]	 [ Interviewer ] All right, can you share your story with us? 

[00:00:13:00]	Alright, umm. So like when I was little, the first book that I can recall reading entirely, 

[00:00:20:14]	umm is the giving tree, and... I know it sounds silly to say, because it's a child's book

[00:00:28:02]	but, it definitely is my most favorite book of all time, umm, for a variety of reasons.

[00:00:36:05]	It's a book that simply to read, but like you can also read into it, a lot. 

[00:00:41:17]	And it's basically about a little boy's journey through life and, this tree that he has and umm.

[00:00:49:11]	Like his stages of life, the tree is there to sort of like help him.

[00:00:54:27]	So like when he's little the limbs of the tree he climbs on

[00:00:58:13]	and when he's older he eats the apples off the tree

[00:01:00:29]	 and then when he's even older the tree offers him like, the wood,

[00:01:05:17]	so he can build a house for his family,

[00:01:07:29]	and then when he's like old, the tree like umm, is just a stump, 

[00:01:12:08]	but the little boy is now like older, like he's an elderly person.

[00:01:17:20]	So the tree offers him a place to sit. 

[00:01:20:28]	 So like throughout his life, it sort of chronicles

[00:01:24:09]	how the tree is always there to give and give and give, hence the giving tree.

[00:01:29:00]	And so, I don't know, it just like...The whole book, like the plot of the book

[00:01:36:10]	sort of just like, highlighted the fact that like, to me personally it's just like how...

[00:01:41:20]	 Parents sort of like give you so much and stuff, and like you kind of take it for granted,

[00:01:47:02]	and like they just give you so much and like, they continue to give you so much

[00:01:52:15]	 even after like they don't need to and stuff and it's just, I don't know, it just really impacted me.

[00:01:58:22]	[ Interviewer] Alright. Now that you're older do you feel... 

[00:02:02:11]	like sometimes it's sort of inspired you to be the tree and to be the one that gives?

[00:02:08:02]	Umm, yeah definitely. I mean, I'm definitely not like... the best person in the world, 

[00:02:14:29]	but I do try to help when I can and stuff.

[00:02:16:22]	And I know that when I start a family I want to help my children to and like,

[00:02:21:07]	even when they're old and stuff, I still want to be there helping them

[00:02:23:29]	even if it annoys them and, umm. Yeah, definitely.

[00:02:28:20]	[ Interviewer ] Alright. Do you think you'll share this book with your kids?

[00:02:32:26]	I definitely will that's going to be the first book they read, I'll make sure of it.

[00:02:37:14]	[ Interviewer ] Yeah, great.