Great job everyone with Bridging today, I thought it was a wonderful prayer
service and hope everyone enjoyed it as much as I did.
I am including on the website the notes we took as a class on Tuck
Everlasting. We finished the novel, but not the notes, so I encourage to you
jot down some notes so you do not forget by the time school begins in August.
Tuck Everlasting
Characters
Winnie Foster – little girl almost 11 years old, feels trapped by her
overprotective parents. She is an only child.
Mae Tuck – She is the mother in the Tuck family and she is immortal. She has
a round motherly figure.
Angus Tuck – he is frustrated with living forever and seems to be lazy and
not wanting to live life.
Jesse Tuck – He is lively and caring.
Miles Tuck – is the older brother and seems to be more mature and weighed
down by the events of his life (losing his wife and children)
Man in the Yellow Suit – mysterious, creepy, suspicious character that is up
to no good.
Prologue – chapter 8
Prologue It begins in August it uses simile to compare August to a Ferris
wheel. It says Mae Tuck visits her sons every ten years at the treegap,
Winnie contemplates running away, and a strange man inquires about a certain
group of people. These seem unconnected, but they are not. Foreshadowing:
people find out things out too late and people do things they will be sorry
for later.
Chapters 1- 7
Winnie lives in the touch-me-not cottage it looks so proud and untouched
that people don’t want to visit. Her family owns the wood at treegap. She
feels trapped and always watched by her family, because she is an only
child. She explains to a toad that she plans to run away the next morning.
That night as she is catching fireflies and the man in the yellow suit
approaches the house asking her questions, he seems untrustworthy. In the
morning she is afraid to go off alone, but she does explore the wood area of
her own property. There she spots a young boy, Jesse, she immediately has a
crush on him and asks him many questions. She watches him drink from a
spring and wants to have some too, he insists that she should not drink from
the spring and it is dangerous. When Mae and Miles arrive they kidnap Winnie
to explain the seriousness of the fountain. They explain that the fountain
stopped them from aging, accidents such as being shot, falling out a tree,
cutting themselves, all of these never injured or killed them. It is obvious
they feel this is a curse and that their lives are worse because of it.
Chapters 8-14
The Tucks take Winnie to their home. Winnie compares her home to their home
and they are very different. Winnie’s house is spotless, with rules that
everyone must follow, everyday is filled scouring and scrubbing, and
manners. The Tuck’s house has no rules except not to talk when eating. The
house is dirty, dusty, with a pet mouse, and wood shavings on the floor
because of the building they do to sell things. Tuck decides to explain to
Winnie that the spring has taken them out of the circle of life, and this is
a negative thing because they don’t change or grow and their experiences
don’t change. Winnie goes through several emotions, on the way she feels
important, special, and is enjoying the Tucks, during dinner she is
frightened and begins to think they are criminals, by nighttime she is
feeling guilty for those feelings and begins to trust the Tucks again. She
is confused by Jesse’s suggestion, he wants her to drink from the spring in
6 years and marry him. The man in the yellow suit heard all about the
fountain and it is not clear what he will do with this information, Winnie
is hoping that he will tell her family where she is, and he steals the
Tuck’s horse and informs the Foster’s about Winnie.
