Tuck Everlasting fits into the genre of
modern fantasy because some of the characters are outside of the realm of
possibility. There is a family, the
Tucks, that have found a magical spring that has made it so they can live
forever. A fountain of youth does not
exist in the real world, although I’m sure there are many that wish it did! The Tuck family consists of Angus Tuck, the
father that goes by Tuck, Mae, the mother, Miles, a son, and Jesse, a son. The other main character in this story is
Winnie Foster. She is a ten year old
girl that lives not far from the woods where the Tucks live.
The
setting of this story is in the mid-1800s in a rural area. Winnie lives in a small town just outside of
some woods. The setting of the story is
a back-drop because it is possible that this could take place somewhere else,
but I think the setting adds to the mood of the story. Her family has owned theses woods for
generations. Winnie contemplates running
away because of the conflict that she is having with her family. The conflict could be classified as a
person-against-person. She feels that
they are too controlling and she wants to get away. One day she decides to talk a walk through
the woods, and on this day, she meets Jesse.
He has no choice but to tell her about the spring because she wants to
drink from it. Jesse’s family takes her
home with them so they can explain to her why it is so important that she does
not tell anyone of the spring.
A man
in a yellow suit observes all of this and he wants to use it for his own benefit. He wants the woods because he knows about the
spring. He tells the family that he will
bring back Winnie in exchange for the land.
They make a deal. You must read
the book to find out if his plan works! This
book does have the element of suspense to it because it will skip back and
forth from the man in the yellow jacket to the Tuck’s house and you want to
know what is going to happen next.
Even
though Winnie is a bit in shock of being taken away, she is not scared. A bit of a romance seems to blossom even
though Jesse is seventeen and Winnie is only ten. Jesse wants her to drink water from the
spring when she is seventeen. Will
she? I think this bit of romance will
make this book more interesting to students.
It may help them relate to the story because they are at the age where
they start to get boyfriends and girlfriends.
This book kept my attention because it is intriguing to me to think
about a fountain of youth. I think it
would be nice for a little while, but then you have to think about being the
same age for eternity while everything else around you changes.
The organization of this book is in short
chapters. There are no headings to the
chapters just numbers. The sentence
structures vary from short to complex. They
are easy to read and flow together nicely.
Big Question:
If you were Winnie, would you drink the water from the spring? What effects do you think this would have on
your life?
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