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Tuck Everlasting
You will want to look in chapter 12 for textual evidence regarding this question. The answer is largely explained by Tuck himself because he uses the pond and boat as a metaphor to explain the...
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Tuck Everlasting
In Natalie Babbitt’s novel Tuck Everlasting, Winnie Foster meets the Tuck family who have an interesting secret: they cannot die. When the book begins, Winnie is just ten years old. While we do...
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Tuck Everlasting
One personality trait that I think a reader can support is that Winnie can be a bit stubborn. She chafes at how her parents hover over her in an overly protective manner, so she is motivated to...
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Tuck Everlasting
I believe that this question is asking about the events that happen in chapter 4. Winnie speaks to both her grandmother and the man in the yellow suit. Chapter 4 has Winnie out in her yard, and a...
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Tuck Everlasting
I believe that this question refers to Jesse Tuck and is asking about clues that appear in chapter 5. Chapter 6 is the "kidnapping" and chapter 7 has Mae, Jesse, and Miles explaining to Winnie...
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Tuck Everlasting
In chapter 14 of Natalie Babbit’s novel Tuck Everlasting, Winnie lays on the Tuck’s couch, having learned their secret: the Tuck family cannot die. As Winnie tries to sleep on the couch, each...
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Tuck Everlasting
One way that Winnie Foster is like the Tuck family is that they both have a sense of adventure. Jesse Tuck probably embodies that mentality more than any other as he is the one that tells Winnie...
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Tuck Everlasting
It seems the circumstances surrounding The Man in the Yellow Suit's death leads Mae to make this statement. He threatens to kidnap Winnie and then sell the water from the spring to the public, so...
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Tuck Everlasting
Without a more specific chapter reference, I am going to assume that this question is asking about the man in the yellow suit and chapter four. This is the chapter where he meets Winnie Foster for...
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Tuck Everlasting
This quote is said by Jesse in chapter 7. Prior to this, the Tucks had kidnapped Winnie after stopping her from drinking the spring water which had made them immortal. On the way to their house,...
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Tuck Everlasting
If I could live forever, I would want to travel a lot. I would be excited to visit as many places as possible and learn about as many cultures as I could, and then I could pick and choose the...
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Tuck Everlasting
This information can be found in the book's epilogue section. This section takes place many years after the events that centered around the Tuck family and their time with Winnie Foster. Enough...
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Tuck Everlasting
I believe that this question is asking about the interaction between Jesse Tuck and Winnie Foster that occurs in chapter five rather than asking about Jesse's demeanor throughout the entire story....
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Tuck Everlasting
The only person in the text that says the word "remember" followed immediately by a question mark is Mae Tuck. In that case, she is asking a question with a single word. The family is recounting...
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Tuck Everlasting
The first interesting fact about the stranger is that we first encounter him in the prologue “at sunset . . . at Foster’s gate.” His first appearance taking place at sunset makes him appear...
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Tuck Everlasting
Tuck Everlasting, written by Natalie Babbitt, is a novel about 10-year-old Winnie, who meets the Tucks, a family that has become immortal after drinking from a spring near Winnie's house. Winnie...
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Tuck Everlasting
There are several pieces of information that can help us figure out when the main action of Tuck Everlasting takes place. Some of that information is not provided until almost the end. We learn...
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Tuck Everlasting
The Treegap authorities want to hang Mae Tuck because she killed the man in the yellow suit. When the man threatens to make Winnie use the spring and take her away to use as proof of what it can...
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Tuck Everlasting
Most readers generally feel that Mae never doubts whether or not her boys will come home. It is a foregone conclusion that she is going to see them in the first week of August every tenth year....
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Tuck Everlasting
There isn't a single theme for this book. Rather there are multiple themes. One important theme is the theme of life and death. The Tucks are all immortal, and Winnie is given the chance to...
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Tuck Everlasting
Chapter six is the place to look for when Winnie and the Tucks quickly move past the man in the yellow suit. Winnie has been thrown onto the horse, and the Tucks are quickly spiriting her away from...
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Tuck Everlasting
Without a specific chapter reference, a reader can only guess as to which "conversation" with the toad the question is asking about. In general, you could claim that Winnie doesn't talk to the toad...
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Tuck Everlasting
Something about the wood feels unnatural and makes people want to speak in whispers. Chapter one tells readers about the wood near the Foster home. The following is a short description from that...
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Tuck Everlasting
The stranger in question is the man in the yellow suit. He's unconscious because Mae Tuck's just whacked him over the head with a rifle butt after he tried to kidnap Winnie. The irony here is that...
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Tuck Everlasting
The Tucks tell Winnie that 87 years ago they arrived at the woods with the idea of building a farm and settling down. On their first night, just before they set up camp, they saw a spring and,...
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Tuck Everlasting
At the end of Natalie Babbitt's book Tuck Everlasting, Winnie has been dead for two years, having died an old woman at the age of 78. Her age at her death matters greatly to the plot of the book....
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Tuck Everlasting
Tuck says in the novel Tuck Everlasting that he and his family are like a rock beside the road. He means that they are sitting still, watching the rest of the world (and life) pass them by. With...
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Tuck Everlasting
The passage tells us that Miles wants to do something meaningful with his life, despite what he considers the "curse" of immortality. To Miles, hiding away to protect others is fine up to a certain...
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Tuck Everlasting
This question deals with information that is given to readers in the early parts of chapter 21. The constable had just brought Winnie home, and the Foster family is fawning over her return. The...
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Tuck Everlasting
Winnie's upbringing made her feel that she would be breaking the law. It would also affect her family's reputation. She had already put her family through so much worry and anguish that she didn't...
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Tuck Everlasting
The Tuck family tells their story to Winnie: 87 years ago, they drank from a spring while passing through a wood and marked that place with a "T" in the tree's bark. Angus, Mae, Miles, Jesse, and...
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Tuck Everlasting
The wood is otherworldly like it is asking to be left alone. There is something strange about the woods outside Winnie Foster’s house. The woods seem to be telling people to leave them alone....
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Tuck Everlasting
The protagonist of the story is Winnie Foster, a young girl who feels trapped in her life. She meets Jess Tuck and his family (Dad: Angus, Mom: Mae, and Brother: Miles), who are the other main...
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Tuck Everlasting
Tuck Everlasting is set during the 1880s. This puts the story post-American Civil War and just after Reconstruction ended. Other notable events of the 1880s are things like the completion of the...
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Tuck Everlasting
The Fosters’ house is the first house on the left of the road that leads into Treegap Village. It is described as a “square solid cottage with a touch-me-not look.” It is surrounded by...
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Tuck Everlasting
It is the father, Angus Tuck, who seems dearest of them all.Winnie looks around at the Tucks after spending her first night with them, and realizes she loves them all. She glances at each in turn,...
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Tuck Everlasting
Jesse does not want Winnie to drink from the spring because she will become immortal. Winnie accidentally sees Jesse drink from the special spring in the woods outside her family’s house. She...
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Tuck Everlasting
Mae Tuck travels to Treegap to meet her sons. The Tucks have an arrangement whereby "every ten years, first week of August, they meet at the spring and come home together so's (they) can be a...
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Tuck Everlasting
Tuck starts out by telling Winnie about how life is constantly "moving, growing, changing, [and] never the same two minutes together." He tells her about the water and how it is always moving and...
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Tuck Everlasting
One of the driving themes of Tuck Everlasting is the idea of immortality and time, which is in every single chapter of the book. The Tuck family have been frozen in time and will never die. They...
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Tuck Everlasting
The Tucks take Winnie to their house so that they can explain everything to her. Technically, the Tucks kidnap Winnie. When Jesse finds her in the woods near her house, she sees him drink from the...
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Tuck Everlasting
Winnie discusses the downsides of immortality and why everything needs to die someday with Angus and Miles. The Tuck family is immortal. Winnie stays with them while they explain to her how they...
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Tuck Everlasting
Mae and Angus love Winnie like their own daughter, and Winnie loves them back as she would a surrogate family. At first, Winnie isn't sure what to think of the Tuck family. Her logical brain is...
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Tuck Everlasting
Winnie enjoys being with her kidnappers once she gets over the shock of being kidnapped. When Winnie sees Jesse in the woods, drinking from the immortal spring, he knows that he can’t just leave...
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Tuck Everlasting
The fact that the Fosters' house is called a "touch me not cottage" indicates that the cottage is pristine but not inviting. The area around Treegap, where the cottage is located, has a notable...
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Tuck Everlasting
Mae Tuck goes into the woods in Treegap in order to meet her sons, Jesse and Miles. Mae makes this journey once every ten years in the first week of August, which is the time of the year with...
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Tuck Everlasting
This particular episode illustrates just how devious and untrustworthy the Man in the Yellow Suit really is; how he'll do anything to get his hands on the Tucks' forest and their supply of eternal...
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Tuck Everlasting
Winnie wanted to run away because she was bored. Winnie didn't exactly run away; she was kidnapped. Winnie feels smothered at home to the point that she “lost her patience at last and decided to...
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Tuck Everlasting
Tuck shot himself to prove to himself and his family, once and for all, that what they suspect to be the case, is, in fact true. It appears that, for some reason, the Tucks have become...
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Tuck Everlasting
The Tuck family can’t stay together because they never age or die and they do not want to make people suspicious by hanging around one place for too long. The Tuck family stays on the move. Mae...