Hungry? Questions and Answers

Questions
1) Why does Erysichthon cut down the tree?
2) Define piety. 
3) How does this term relate to Erysichthon?
4) What connections can be made between this scene and this children's story?
5) Relate the events in this scene to a specific passage in Siddhartha.

1) He needed wood and he did not care what others said.
2) The "Quality of being religious". When he says: 
"Get off me, you, pious son of a bitch!"
He is saying, Let me do what I want, I won't let someone religious get in my way.
3) How does this term relate to Erysichthon? 
Well clearly Erysichthon didn't care about religion and he clearly doesn't respect it. So piety is a term that can clearly not be applied to Erysichthon.
4) The giving tree by Silverstein relates to this story because it shows the relationship that one can have with a plant.
5) Siddartha has a relationship with nature, it is in his unity, in his being. This is after being enlightened. Towards the end of the book Siddartha listens and has his momment of enlightment and he finally understands nature. I feel like he who disagreed with Erysichthon understood nature aswell.