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Tuck Everlasting

by Natalie Babbitt

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Plot

Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Conflicts
Epilogue
Inciting Incident
Mae's Escape
Mae Tuck
Magic Water
Resolution
The Constable
The Man in the Yellow Suit
The Tuck Family's Immortality
Treegap

Characters

Winnie Foster
Tuck Family
Mae Tuck
The Man in the Yellow Suit
Angus Tuck
Miles Tuck
Jesse Tuck
The Stranger
The Constable
Winnie
Miles
Man in the Yellow Suit

Themes

Immortality
Life and Death
Independence
Freedom
Family
Fear

Symbolism

The Spring
Music Box
The Wheel
Spring Water
The Toad
Immortality

Quotes

See? That's Just What I Mean. It's Like That Every Minute. If I Had a Sister or a Brother, There'd be Someone Else for Them to Watch. But, as It Is, There's Only Me. I'm Tired of Being Looked at All the Time. I Want to be by Myself for a Change.

Setting

Treegap
Tuck Home
The Woods
Foster Home

Literary Devices

Personification
Simile