We have been finding many strange things in this book, signs of immortality. Would you ever think that these people are truly immortal, well all you have to do is read on, but we are taking a different path.
We have found many hints that the Tucks have lived many years.
Ever noticed the title? Tuck Everlasting, doesn't that sound suspicious. And of course what it says near that, "What if you could live forever?" That is just an overload of proof. And does anyone notice that dream Tuck had, the one about heaven. And then what Mae said after Tuck told her what she was dreaming, "It's no having that dream, nothings going to change", Tuck wants to die, and they both know he can't, stuck with life forever, never going to heaven.
Then when she got dressed her husband had remembered the sound after so long, meaning he has head this over and over again, after many, many years
And then, right after that, she said "Will you be alright? We won't be back till late tomorrow.", and Tuck responded with "What in the world could possibly happen to me?" As you can see, this is a clear point to the direction of immortality , he can't die! And just listen to what Mae says next, "That's so, I keep forgetting." See, there is something they both know, that they both live forever and cannot get hurt.
Next she decides to brush and put up her hair, but she doesn't need a mirror, she remember what she looks like, because she has looked the same for eighty seven years.
S T O L E N !
Winnie was talking with Jesse when Mae Tuck came through the brush with Miles Tuck and then was thrown onto the back of the horse! She was kidnapped like a sack of potatoes. Then the tucks were talking all at once to Winnie about not shouting or crying for help. .After all this chaos and confusion all Winnie could do is think about home and what would happen to her.
Does Jesse have feeling for the girl he kidnapped?
Winnie was then witness to the Tucks long story, one that would be in a fairy tale, one about Immortality. Could you imagine her surprise at this envent. After the kidnapping she came to their very disorderly house, but she happend to like the disorder. Soon she was very close to the Tucks, I wonder just what she would do for them?
There were a few people who happen to have different ideas, well more like one. A man, one wearing a yellow suit. When the tucks went to take her away they knew that they needed to explain everything, so they told the whole story. Including the part about the spring giving you immortality, and I guess this man in the yellow suit had some greedy ideas, all he real wanted was money. Soon he went along with his plan, going to the Fosters and saying that he would get Winnie back to them, well for a price, the forest, the forest with the water of immortality. Next he tells the police of Winnies kidnapping, the police is right on the scene but yellow suit man decides that he shall go ahead . . .
So now there was trouble, when he got there Winnie, like most, refused to go with the man. He tried to take her by force! Make her immortal! And use her as an advertisement! So Mae did what most would, or most brave people, hit him upon the head. But there is more trouble after this because the police man just happened to witness this last event, if the man dies Mae is hanged, which won't kill her but will reveal the Tucks secret. If the man does not die it is jail time for Mae, but worse, the man will go on to sell the water! making himself and many other people immortal! Which may sound good but there are many bad things about life forever, including no death. In the next day they find out, the man died and Mae is going to be hanged, well that is if they can't stop it. Jesse then comes to the Fosters house and gives Winnie a water bottle filled with the magical water, he tells her to wait until she is seventeen when she will drink and then find them so that her and Jesse can be together forever. That night Jesse comes again to the Fosters house, this time to start the plan to help Mae. They sneak over to the jail, break in, get Mae out, and Winnie takes her place. It's done! The Tucks secret will not be revealed! After all of it is over, when he is back home, Winnie goes into her yard, a dog threatens to kill a toad that sits on the other side of the fence. Winnie picks the toad up, then pours the magical water upon it, all of the water, the toad will now live forever, but sadly not her. We know this because when the Tucks returned to Treegap once more instead of Winnie all they find is a stone, a stone with her name on it.
Here lies Winifred Jackson.
She was a loved mother
and amazing friend.
Winnie lived 78 years.
She was a loved mother
and amazing friend.
Winnie lived 78 years.