![]() As the characters form a trunk together, they continue to grow, and just as a trunk they begin to diverge from one another. ![]() Patiently, it nurtures those seeds until they pop up from beneath the soil and begin to intertwine around one another as they grow upward. It starts with the seeds that would one day grow into the characters that it focuses on. What was most striking to me about this novel was the way its form mirrors that of a tree. And also, just like relationships between people, imbalance in that give and take can be disastrous. ![]() ![]() It explores complex crevices of our relationship to nature and shows that, like relationships between people, there is a give and a take. ![]() This is a story about trees, but it is not told from the perspective of trees, but rather those who have lived their lives alongside trees-and knowingly or not, formed a relationship with the objects that at some point they might have believed to be nearly inanimate. It is a novel that turns around the idea of man versus nature, where man is the protagonist and nature the antagonist, and makes it nature versus man, with nature as the protagonist and man as the antagonist. The Overstory is a vast novel with a dynamic cast of characters at its core, it is the question of humanity’s compatibility with other forms of life. ![]()
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