In your own words, summarize the plot of The Birch Tree's Gift. Identify a theme in this story, and tell how the story's actions and events bring attention to this theme.

Olarin an old man lived beyond the mountains where everything was quite & peaceful. One day, he went walking into the forest. As he was walking in the forest, he heard the cries of a birch tree. He came in closer to ask what the birch tree’s problem was. The birch said that he wasn’t useful; Unlike other trees who were used for decorations, furniture’s and other daily uses. Olarin, the old man took the birch tree home and cut it down to make a small harp. He needed one thing to complete his harp.

Strings.

He walked into the forest for three days straight. Although, he came across many types of strings; He couldn’t find the right one. Until, He heard a lovely voice in the forest. It was a maid. The maid was singing a lovely melody. She was singing on top of a lovely mountain, whilst sitting on a rock. The old man asked for five of her hair strands and the maid agreed.  

Once the harp was finished. Olarin wanted to find a place to sit and play a lovely melody. He went back to the mountain. Where he found the lovely maid and played the lovely melody.  The Birch tree was now happy.

recent news about two years ago indicates that a polish forestry student by chance unearthed at a depth of about 40cm (16 inches), during digging in a damp polish forest he found a 13-page manuscript into a thermos flask.

greek jew marcel nadjari was a aischwitz slave who witnessed how the nazi's built big death chambers and crematoriums and told how he was forced to escort fellow jews to the gas chambers. he accounts on this manuscript how the nazi's disguised this chambers to look like showers. also, he describes this place as a process of extermination from the chambers to the trains arriving to take the bodies.

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