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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
Wow. Five reasons might be a bit tough. One reason I think that she didn't drink the water is that Winnie never truly believed it would work. Even by the end of the novel, Winnie's internal...
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Tuck Everlasting
The Tuck family feels that living forever makes them miss out on the human experience. Because they cannot age, they have to live apart from other people and can’t get to know anyone. The two...
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Tuck Everlasting
The man in the yellow suit has followed Tuck's family since they "kidnapped" Winnie because he suspects their secret. He convinces the sheriff of Treegap to ride with him out to Tuck and Mae's...
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Tuck Everlasting
Miles has a more negative view of the spring than Jesse does. The Tuck family drank from a spring that made them immortal. It meant that they never aged, and never died. It took some time for...
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Tuck Everlasting
One conflict is man vs. self. This conflict is Winnie's conflict. Should she accept the offer of immortality or not? Only she can determine that for herself, and she struggles with it quite a...
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Tuck Everlasting
As Winnie, her grandmother, and the stranger stand in front of her grandmother's cottage, they hear "a faint, surprising wisp of music...a tinkling little melody", come floating to them...
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Tuck Everlasting
The Tucks became aware that the spring water made them immortal when they did not die of life-threatening injuries. When the Tuck family first drank from the forest spring, they had no idea what...
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Tuck Everlasting
The Tucks’ home is much more disorganized and comfortable than the Fosters' home, and Winnie is homesick. Winnie is surprised by the way the Tucks live. She does not necessarily prefer the way...
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Tuck Everlasting
The man in the yellow suit goes to the Foster household to blackmail them. The Fosters know that Winnie is missing. They do not know if she has run away or been kidnapped. The man in the yellow...
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Tuck Everlasting
Winnie sees Jesse Tuck drink from the spring. Winnie goes into the forest, where she sees Jesse drink from the spring when he does not think anyone is looking. She says she is thirsty and wants to...
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Tuck Everlasting
It is not possible to list all events here, but here are some important ones. -Winnie Foster is dissatisfied with home. Her family has lived on the same plot of land for generations. They are...
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Tuck Everlasting
The answer to this question can be found in chapter twelve of Tuck Everlasting. During this chapter, Angus Tuck takes Winnie out in a rowboat to the nearby pond. It is his way of getting her...
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Tuck Everlasting
The Foster's house is organized and immaculately clean; the Tuck's house is delightfully cluttered and disarrayed.The cottage where the Foster family lives is "always squeaking clean, mopped...
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Tuck Everlasting
Mr. Tuck explains to Winnie about the cycles of life being like a wheel. He talks about everything having a beginning and an end and that life moves naturally, in these cycles. He tells Winnie that...
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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
Personification is a figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects, or ideas. There are quite a few examples of this concept in Tuck Everlasting. For example, Outside, the...
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Tuck Everlasting
Angus feels as if the Tucks are not fully participating in life because they are immortal. Angus uses the rowboat outing to explain to Winnie how he feels about being immortal. That's what us...
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Tuck Everlasting
The quote in question appears at the very end of chapter five. A lot happens during this chapter. It starts with Winnie Foster testing out her idea of running away. She goes off to explore the...
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Tuck Everlasting
In the beginning of this section, Winnie's emotions are uncertain and doubtful. She is upset over being kidnapped, and even though she somewhat likes the Tucks, she has difficulty reconciling...
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Tuck Everlasting
Winnie is waiting for midnight, because that is when she knows that she will be able to sneak out of the house. Winnie needs to sneak out of the house that night in order to help break Mae out of...
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Tuck Everlasting
The Tucks never meant to kidnap Winnie; they only brought her with them so that they would have enough time to explain to her about the spring. Mae tells Winnie, "Tuck - he'll want to talk it out,...
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Tuck Everlasting
Jesse gave Winnie the bottle of magic spring water with the intent that she would drink it when she turned 17. That way they both could be together at 17 forever. How romantic. The first thing...
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Tuck Everlasting
In Tuck Everlasting the sweet Winnie Foster worries that if Mae Tuck goes to the gallows her secret will be known be everyone. Mae hit the man in the yellow suit with a shotgun when he was trying...
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Tuck Everlasting
The three things that the question is asking about can be found in the story's opening prologue. It is there that readers are told that three things happened that appeared to have no connection to...
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Tuck Everlasting
Tuck is thrilled to see Winnie because he hasn’t seen a child in a long time. The Tuck family is immortal. They do not get many visitors, because they try to keep hidden. If someone found out...
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Tuck Everlasting
Winnie pours the spring water onto the toad. Winnie accidentally sees Jesse drinking from the spring in the woods near her house and ends up going on a grand adventure. She learns that he is...
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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
In Chapter 15, the man in the yellow suit makes a deal with Winnie's family: he will bring Winnie back to them in exchange for their land. So, what the man in the yellow suit proposes is a trade:...
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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
In Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting, both Winnie and Miles express wanting to make a difference in the world.In the third chapter of the story, Winnie confides in a toad that she feels angry with...
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Tuck Everlasting
When first introduced to Winnie, the reader realizes that she is not a happy young girl. She is an only child and has parents that are constantly watching over her. Winnie longs for a little bit...
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Tuck Everlasting
Winnie's words to the toad on page 15 are as follows: "It'd be better if I could be like you, out in the open and making up my own mind." Winnie is speaking to the toad in an attempt to...
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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
Those lines are the first two lines from stanza four of Richard Lovelace's poem "To Althea, from Prison." In the poem, Lovelace is using those lines to explain that his imagination, soul, and love...
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Tuck Everlasting
Miles tells Winnie that if his children were still alive, his son would be eighty-two, and his daughter eighty. Miles's daughter was named Anna, and he fondly remembers how he used to take her...
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Tuck Everlasting
Over the course of the novel, Winnie has changed to become more independent. When we are introduced to Winnie, she chafes against the restraint that she feels has been implemented on her by her...
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Tuck Everlasting
In the very beginning of Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting, we are introduced to a cottage located near the village of Treegap, which is also called as the touch-me-not cottage. Owned by Fosters,...
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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
The question is referring to events that happen in chapter seventeen of Tuck Everlasting. Miles and Winnie are awake early that morning, and Miles offers to take Winnie with him while he fishes for...
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Tuck Everlasting
Mae hit the man in the yellow suit in the head with the shotgun. The man in the yellow suit is looking for the spring that made the Tucks immortal. He heard the story passed down through his...
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Tuck Everlasting
When Winnie first meets Jesse Tuck, she is mildly curious. She is a little bit frightened when they kidnap her though. By the time Winnie gets to know the Tucks, she considers them good friends....
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Tuck Everlasting
The Tuck family describes their discovery of the spring's magical powers in chapter 7. They passed and drank from the spring without knowing anything had happened. The Tuck family eventually...
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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
Miles' wife had left him because after they had been together for a number of years, she realized that oddly, he was not aging. This was just too weird for her to handle, and, thinking that he had...
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Tuck Everlasting
The stranger is the man in the yellow suit. He tells Winnie in Chapter Four that he is looking for a family. The man lifted his eyebrows. "Oh," he said, "I'm looking for someone. A family." The...
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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
I believe you are asking about the very first time that Winnie's grandmother and the man in the yellow suit interact with each other. That happens in chapter four. The question that he asks her is...
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Tuck Everlasting
Personification is used to provide meaningful description. Personification means that something non-human is described as having human qualities. Here is an example of the road personified: It...
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Tuck Everlasting
"Maybe. But we don't know them," Jesse pointed out. "We've never had anyone but us to talk about it to. Winnie—isn't it peculiar? And kind of wonderful? Just think of all the things we've seen in...