Did little Snuffy - you don't mind me treating you as a small child, no? - not learn the lesson well enough? For your next assignment, you must read "The Giving Tree". This is more advanced. Written for the Confirmation. We trust you will comply.
In real life, the woman in the book would be considered, what, disturbed? That picture, the detail of the red hankie, still makes me pee my pants with laughter.
In real life, the religious educator in our parish would be considered disturbed. It's only in the sheltered life a modern Catholic parish that we're forced to take her seriously. Creepy children's books and all.