Please Summarize "Baron in the Trees" by Italo Calvino?

Question

I need help. I have an outside reading assignment to read the Baron in the trees and I have absolutely no time to do it. I'm not a lazy person --- but I really do not have the time. Somebody help --- The assignment is to write a 3-5 page essay, alloting one paragraph to book summary and spending the rest of the time answering the following in relation to the book:
1. What do people owe themselves, their authorities, and their communities? How do they balance these obligations? In other words, how do people choose between personal integrity, loyalty, and belonging, when these qualities come into conflict?
2. What makes someone an outsider in a group, at least in certain ways? Is it the person's choice, the group's choice, both, or what? Although outsiders are, of course, somehow outside a group, what collective purposes do they serve? By "collective", I mean "shared by a group," though not necessarily the same group a so called "outsider" is out of.

I would appreciate any help

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Baron in the Trees is about a boy who goes up into a tree and vows never to touch the earth again. Being from a royal family he is eventually a baron but never comes down but moves from tree to tree traveling all over and facing many adventures. I can't do your assignment it is a shame you haven't read the book it is one of a kind as is all of Italo Calvino's books Good luck to you.