The point of the story is easily described by going in the ‘way back machine’ to a conversation I had with my daughter when she was four years old.
“Daddy, why is there a core in the middle of the apple?”
I said the following as we held the half eaten apple in both of our hands, “Well sweetie the core protects the seeds and the seeds are what grow into big apple trees and bring us many more big beautiful apples in the future.”
She smiled and said, “I didn’t know that” and then she saw a wonderful yellow and orange butterfly and darted up and chased after it.
