The Christmas Tree

This is the novel which depicts the story of Sister Anthony who lives in the monastery called Brush Creek and a German spruce. The main character is a gardener. He sets out a Christmas tree showed at Rockefeller Center in Fifth Avenue. He found a German spruce at the monastery and the story started. But at first, he couldn't get the tree because the tree and Sister Anthony was best friends. It is mysterious. So I want to talk about relationship between the tree and the Sister.

Firstly, I want to talk about Sister Anthony. Her mother died on her birth. After few years then, her father also died. She entered to the asylum at a very young age. After that she entered the monastery. She didn't have any friends and stayed alone in those days. One day she went to the blank space in the forest, and she met a German spruce. She named it Tree.

She didn't regard the tree as plant. Because she was very young in those days, she didn't have a level head. That's why she didn't understand the tree was not human but just tree. So she named the tree. Also she described the tree as "him" when she talked about it.

Finally she decided to give him to the gardener. What made her do so? There was nothing about it. But she surely thought that delighting many people as a Christmas tree was his work. The gardener was scouting about for a Christmas tree every year. He was doing his job very hard, so she would have thought about the real role of him. She thought that it was better for him to finish his life with his best decoration than to keep standing at the same position his whole life. She decided so because there was deep friendship between them.

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