Tuck everlasting study guide and notes

Every 10 years.

Miles

Natalie Babbit

The stranger's arrival at the Tuck's house.

78

Greed= he wanted to sell the water.

Both believed it made you live forever; people would go crazy for it.

Stranger- didn't mind eternal life and wants to see it. Angus- should be a secret so that life would stay natural.

She was protecting Winnie and the secret.

1880(present)-104(how old Jesse was)=1776 Jesse's birth year +17(when he drank the water)=1793 Late 1770's

1. Natalie Babbit

1. treegap; August 2. woods and meadow 3. villiage; touch-me-not cottage 4. giant ash tree

1. hints at something to come 2. prolouge- 3 events 3. spring- if found, the world would lose balance

1. mom- Mae 2. sons- Miles and Jesse 3. dad- Angus "Tuck"

1. Winnie (Winifred) 2. Grandma, mom and dad all live together 3. protecive 4.Grandfather has passed away 5. live in "touch-me-not cottage" and own the wood

1. yellow suit, black hat, and beard 2. awkward- stares at people 3. mysterious 4. looking for a family

1. wants to run away 2. 10 yeras old 3. talks to toad 4. crush on Jesse

1. 17 years old (actually 104) 2. Winnie finds him "glorious" 3. never been maried

1. Jesse's older brother 2. 22 when he drank the spring water 3. was maried with 2 kids 4. wife took kids and left him- thought he had sold his soul to the devil

1.tree at the middle with a spring for a base, covered in pebbles 2. Winnie found Jesse drinking the water 3. Jesse tells Winnie not to drink it 4. Winnie goes looking for the elves/music

1. owned by Mae Tuck 2. plays an old melody 3. takes it every where with her 4. Grandmother thinks its music from elves- she hasn't heard it in 10 years

1. discoverd the real Fountain of Youth 2. St. Augustine, Florida

1. the Tuck's take Winnie away to tell her the secret 2. Mae takes her on the horse 3. man in the yellow suit is following

1. squalid, messy, dirty, old, small, peculiar 2. mouse lives in the drawer 3. make and sell things that they made out of wood 4. Miles and Jesse return every 10 years 5.Winnie stays on couch; it is lumpy and rough

1. the Tuck's want to keep Winnie from telling others about the fountain 2. Angus Tuck takes her to the pond 3. Winnie- still confused and upset anout dying 4. horse is stolen by the stranger

1. giving human qualities to a non-human object 2. "the pond's got the answers" (pg. 59)

1. comaring 2 things 2. "It's a wheel, turning... and never stoping (pg.62)." 3. Wheel is compared to life

1. main charaters; who are you rooting for 2. Winnie and Jesse 3. Jesse asks Winnie to drink from the fountain at 17, meet up with him, and then they will marry

1. charater who is going against the main charater 2. the stranger/man in the yellow suit 3. deal with the Foster's- exchange of Winnie for their land (the woods) 4. sly, sneaky, arrogant

1. sheriff 2. stranger tells him about Winnie's kidnapping 3. Lets the stranger ride ahead to the Tuck's house 4. fat, lazy, lofty, pride

1. Winnie goes fishing with Miles 2. talk about his family 3. Miles catches one, but Winnie makes him throw it back

1. Stranger shows up at the Tuck's house 2. tells them that he knows the secret from his grandmother (she knows from Miles's ex-wife and children) 3. Stranger has developed his life to findinmg the truth 4. Stranger is going to make Winnie drink the spring water so he can show her off 5. Mae hits him with a shotgun and constable sees 6. Mae might be hanged in the gallows if the stranger dies=BAD

1.Constable takes Winnie home 2. Stranger dies 3. Jesse shows up with a bottle of the spring water 4. Winnie joins the plan to help Mae escape

1. Miles removes the nails from the window 2. Mae and Winnie excahnges places

1. Winnie's friends like her now that she is a "figure of romance" and not "too clean. 2. Winnie pours the whole bottle of the spring water on the toad to save him from the dog

1.1950- Mae and Tuck return to Treegap 2. town is civilized and has lots of buisnesses 3. electrical fire from lighting strike 3 years ago in the wood, and the tree split in half 4.Tuck finds Winnie's grave- she died 2 years ago 5.Winnie was a wife and a mother, dies at 78 6. Tuck and Mae sees the toad on the way out of town

1. Story begins in - August 2. Miles and Jesse every - 10 years 3. Tuck's first drank the spring water- late 1700's 4.Mae and Angus return to treegap- 70 years after Mae's escape from jail 5.Winnie lived to be - 78 years old