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TUCK EVERLASTING

My Review No 1

Tuck Everlasting chapters: Prologue, 1, 2, 3 Three things that will happen in one day. 1. Mae Tuck setting off on her horse to meet her sons Miles and Jesse that she sees every ten years. 2. Winnifred Foster runs away 3. A stranger appears at the Foster's home.

CHARACTERS I HAVE ENCOUNTERED Mae Tuck-Angus Tuck's wife Angus Tuck-Mae Tucks husband Jesse-Mae and Angus Tucks son Miles-Mae and Angus Tucks son

Winnifred Foster Winnie's Grandmother Winnie's Mother

Mae Tuck said she didn't care about how her hair looked because she said her family had looked the same for 87 years.

Winnie is an only child.

Mae Tuck never leaves anywhere without her little square music box that is decorated with roses and lilies of the valley. Mae said that the music box was the most beautiful thing she has ever owned.

Winnie wants to run away. She tells the frog that she will when everyone is asleep the next morning.

I think the Tuck's are either immortal or dead.

Would you like to live for ever?

I would not like to live forever because as Breanna Kirkwood said, dieing is the nature of life and also if you don't die then you will witness the ends of your families life and that will be even sadder and people would probably want to study your diet or you because you've been living for so long.

Ch2. Why does Angus consider his dream a good dream? I think he considers it to be good because him and his family are not in Treegap. I think that he thinks Treegap is bad because something happened to them their. Why do you think Mae Tuck doesn't care about her appearance any more? I think people won't remember her because the people from the village will think that she has died because they haven't seen her for so long because she hasn't gone to the village because she and her family are immortal and don't need anything to survive. Ch3. How does Winnie's life compare to yours? Winnie's life is different to mine because I am not an omnly child. I am about to become one of four children in my family. My life is the same to hers however because she lives in the country and so do I. Why does Winnie throw stones at the Toad? I think she throws stones at the toad because she is in a bad mood and is taking her anger out on the toad by aiming and throwing stones at the toad and I know that aiming for something and hitting it is satisfactory to you and your mood. You are also using violence which is good because you are letting it out. Ch4. What is your impression with the man in the yellow suit? I think that he has something to do with looking for the Tucks because I'm so strung on the idea that the Tuck's are immortal or dead and he wants to find out their secret because he knows about them.

WEDNESDAY THE 25th OF AUGUST

CHAPTER 6

NEW CHARACTERS

Jesse Tuck-Mae and Tuck's son

Miles-Mae and Tuck's son.

In this chapter Winnie runs away and meets Jesse in the woods sipping from a spring beneath a big Ash Tree. The spring has been hidden by pebbles but Jesse knows theres a pring there. Winnie catches Jesse by surprise and at the moment she looks at him she's in love. Winnie try's to take a sip of water from the spring but he says no you cant do that and just as her mouth opens and she begins to have a big protest about how this is her land and she can do what ever she wants with it, Miles and his mum Mae Tuck are there on horse back. Mae Tuck decides she needs to tell Winnie about their secret. but what is it?

Ch7.

In this chapter Mae, Tuck and Jesse are frantically trying to get her away from anyone in ear shot of a loud scream or yelp for help. They pass by the man with the yellow hat and say "teaching our daughter how to ride." They tell Winnie the secret and she thinks its not real, that its just all a dream but she realises the Tuck's are all very real. In the story they say that the cat didnt drink the water and that was important because he was the only one who had dided and they believed that they were immortal. But obviously the cat wasn't.

Monday the 30th of August Today we read the 8th chapter and they've told Winnie the secret and then they take her home with them and they are going to return her the next day. All the time when they were telling Winnie about their secret the man in the yellow hat was listening to them and he was following them to the Tuck's house. Tuesday the 31st of August

9th Ch In the 9th chapter it is mainly about Mae, Jesse, Miles and Winnie walking back to the house in the heat. Then they spot the house and they see the pond infront of their house and Miles and Jesse jump into the lake with their clothes on because they think it is too hot to shed their clothes. Angus Tuck meets Winnie and he said it is the most greatest thing that has ever happened to him for atleast 80 years.

10th Ch In the 10th chapter they describe the household that they live in and winnie says that it is very different to hers. She is a woman of order in training like her mother and grandmother before her. Never had she seen a house like this. " Did they just not care.""Or did they think that they had forever to clean it up." They described it to be messy with bowls of stuff that they would make to sell. They would never have the same job for a while otherwise people would suspect something. They just wandered from town to town making sure that no one remembered them so they wouldn't find out their secret. Monday the 6th of September Well, I took Tuck Everlasting home and read the remaining chapters because I really wanted to know what happened and I was just really paranoid because I NEEDED TO READ THE BOOK!!!!!!!!! Anyway it got really interesting. With the stealing of the horse and the murder and everything. And how she takes Mae's place and then they don;t let her go anywhere ever again until school starts. You know. Or you dont know because you havent read all of it. It took me only about on the way home from school on the bus + 20 minutes at home. For people who havent read the nbook Id say youd really enjoy it even if you dont.

ALL THE CHARACTERS IN THE BOOK Winnie Winnie's Grandmother Winnie's Mother Winnie's Dad The Toad Angus Tuck Mae Tuck Jesse Tuck Miles Tuck The Tucks Horse The man in the yellow suit The Constable The Ash Tree

ALL THE PLACES I HAVE ENCOUNTERED The Ash tree The Jail House The Jail Cell The Fosters House The Tucks House The Wood The Stream The Spring The touch-me-not-cottage The Tucks pond

QUESTIONS & ACTIVITIE//S// //CHAPTER 5 questions//

//1. Jesse tries to prevent Winnie from drinking the water because that is the water that they drank from which made them immortal. It was a Spring that was connected to the Stream that they were about to take her to.//

//2. Mae says that "the worse is happening at last" because her families secret now has to be shared with Winnie Foster, a normal growing CHILD. Their secret is that they are immortal. They became immortal when they drank the water from the stream.// //They were passing through the land to settle in a house just beyond a forest which used to be exactly where they were standing. They drank the water because they were thirsty. All except the cat. They soon were finding out that they were immortal when Jesse fell out a tree while trying to saw off a branch for the houses that they were building in a thinly populated valley. He fell right on his head. They thought he broke his neck but he got up and was all fine. ANYWAY, Mae was thinking that if their secret was out in the world it would be a travesty, especially if everyone lived for ever. Then the world would be so full. It is a cycle. It is nature.//

CHAPTER 6 1. The Tucks kidnapped Winnie because they did not want their secret to get out and ruin the world. If I was Winnie I would probably just go along with them. It would be the most amazing adventure she would have had in years. It would be awesome but scary and frightening all at the same time. It would be so exciting. Being an only child would be boring. No fights, no one to play with, all focused on you, everyone always yakking about you, everyone always looking after YOU, everyone allways looking after YOU and everything always about you.

CHAPTER 7 The Tucks first find out they are immortal when Jesse is cutting a branch from a tree to build the houses that they are making in a lightly populated valley. He loses his balance and falls plum on his head and he just gets up and walks away. They all thought that she has broken his neck but he's fine. The man in the suit is following them because he knows about their secret because his grandmother used to tell him stories about her friend who married into a rather odd family. She married the oldest of 2 sons, she lived with her husband for over 20 years and he never got any older. It was after his grandmother's friends children were born that she started taking notice. The wife aged but he didn't. Then she noticed that her friends husbands family didn't age, ever. His grandmothers friend soon came to notice this so she left him at once and moved in with the yellow coat guys grandmother, then she left and no one knew what became of her. But his grandmother still remembered the children. They were about the same age. There was a son and a daughter. He was fascinated with his grandmothers stories. People who lived FOREVER!!!!1 It was amazing. The man in the Yellow suit was strung on the idea of living forever. He wanted to know if it was trully real. So he studied at school and then at a university, he even studied medicine but nothing made sense. Nothing ever connected. Until he took his grandmother a present one day, a music box. She said that her friends, husbands mother had owned a music box that had a rather peculiar tune to it. Then she taught it to the man in the yellow suit. A couple days later when he was at the Foster's gate he heard that same noise so he was hopeful he knew they were real. So he followed them because he knew. He knew they were the people that lived for ever but he wanted to be sure so he followed them. CHAPTER 8 SUMMARY Tuck Everlasting The hottest August, at the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a fairest wheel when it pauses in its turning. Curiously silent. The wood, only a slim few acres of trees and in the centre of it all the big Ash tree. Hard for anyone to miss, for it was an otherwordly feeling that crept over you when you caught sight of that tree. The cows were smart, they went around it.

On that morning Winnifried Foster was threatening a toad that she would run away the next morning when everyone is sound asleep in bed.

On that very same day Mae Tuck sets out to see her boys Miles and Jesse which her and her husband, angus Tuck, see every ten years.

That evening a man int he yellow auit appears and

That She owns a music box that is decorated with lilies of the valley and roses. It played the most peculiar tune. when she was looking for her sons she played that tune skipping ust out of sight where the Fosters lived. That is how the man in the Yellow suit knows of the Tucks.

Winnie is not game enought to run away so instead she goes into the wood with the Ash tree in it. The wood belonged to her family. She finds her self parched and she goes looking for a water source. She finds a boy in her wood and she is immediately fond of him. He is drinking water from a spring under the big Ash tree and she goes to have a sip but he doesnt let her. Then his mother and his older brother arrive and Mae Tuck says "the worst has come at last."They then took her to a special place, a stream where they can say why she can not drink the water from the stream.

CHAPTER 9 QUESTIONS 1. I think it takes ages for the Tuck's to reach their house because obviously it is in a hard to reach place. It is in a hard to reach place because if someone came to their door and knew them personally and was their friend then they would see that they would never age so they would get suspicious and then learn of their secret of being immortal. And that is why it is in such a hard to reach place.

2. Angus Tuck is pleased to meet Winnie because, well I think that he really wanted to tell someone about them and how they live and their secret. Because keeping a secret like that away from the world is hard, you just want to tell everyone you know so they can comfort you but it just doesnt work like that. Tuck telling Winnie was a relief to him and he knew Winnie to be a trustworthy child so thats why I think he was happy to meet Winnie. CHAPTER 10 questions 1. Mae Tuck thinks of her life nor blessed, nor cursed because she believes she has done nothing of greatness or of something worthy of a curse to be put on her and her family.

2. Winnie is so amazed at the inside of the Tucks home because she is used to being clean, she is a woman of order (in training) and has never seen so much mess in all her life I would imagine.

CHAPTER 11 QUESTIONS Tuck talks about how he does not know why they have been blessed or cursed with this gift from heaven or hell. He talks about how life is a wheel and his family is just rocks on the side of the road. He says all around them is life moving, growing, changing its never the same.1`3zwrret 256