Summary for the poem

Here is the summary of the poem My Father and the Fig Tree. 

This poem talks about the author's father and his favorite plant--- Fig Tree. She wrote about her father's life which is around fig trees, and the author's memory about fig trees. 

To compare with other fruits, her father only cares about his fig trees, and he always complains about why there's no any fig trees in their houses in United States. He always tells folktale story to his daughter which are all about fig trees. It seems like fig trees in everywhere of his life, even in religion. 

His present for Allah is a great fig tree. So as author rememebrs her father, her memory is full of good smelling of figs. Fig trees also mean hometown and motherland for him! So that's one of the reason that author's mother said her father " What a dreamer he is. Look how many things he starts and doesn't finish". Also for the new gardens in their house in United States, her father doesn't care about other plants. Maybe because his heart is already left in his hometown. In the last, her father sang a fig tree song, he seems happy with the fig trees aroung him. What a typical Arabic people he is!