Gloria Dump's bottle tree is featured in Chapter 16 of "Because of Winn-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo. The bottle tree serves as a symbol of her past and the memories she holds. It is an important element in the story that highlights themes of friendship and acceptance as Opal learns more about Gloria's life and experiences.
Gloria Dumps
Gloria Dump shows Opal her bottle tree. Gloria's tree is full of whisky and beer bottles-"The ghosts of all the things I've done wrong," Gloria Dump says. Signifying that Gloria was an alcoholic.
to keep away all of the bad spirits that she had in her life of all of the bad desertions
The bottles were All the ones she had drank and she kept them to keep the ghosts of all the mistakes she had made, away.
a nugget tree
The tree has a trunk shaped like a bottle - wide at the bottom and narrower at the top.
In Winn-Dixie i say it was a Wait and See tree
Need to see a photo first to confirm it is a Bottle Tree...Doug
The Radleys' tree getting filled with cement is described in Chapter 8 of "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. In this chapter, a mysterious figure fills the hole of the tree with cement, which upsets Jem and Scout.
In Winn-Dixie i say it was a Wait and See tree
Bottle Tree; Bauhimia
it's in chapter 6