Tuck Everlasting
Summary of chapter 1-18
Mae Tuck goes out to get her boys, they are on there way home. She goes there on her horse. Winne Foster sat on the brist grass just inside the fence. This is where she talks to the toad. This is also where she meets the the person who she thinks knows a lot about the village. She later wanders in the woods she finds the water spout that lets you live for eternal life. She wants to take a sip from the fountain because she is thirsty. She later gets kidnapped, but when she got kidnapped it was nothing like what she thought it would be like. The kidnappers were actually nice to her. They said that they were going to let her free tomorrow. After she gets let free she finds the boy and goes with the tuck family. She gets showed around the tuck house and she stays the night. After she stayed at the house for a night she finds out that her horse had gotten stolen. They were talking about it and they decided to go to bed and figure it all out in the morning. They go out to find the horse but they cant. The man in the yellow suit took the horse. He tried to make a bargain with them. If they give them the woods they can have the horse. This didn't work out.. The man left with the horse. The tuck family and Mae went back to the cottage. Mae stayed another night and woke up the next morning and had flapjacks. As they were eating the door went knock knock and it was the man in the yellow suit knocking on the door.
Summary of chapter 19-25
The man in the yellow suit came into the sunlight parlor and started to look around and Winnie sensed something that instantly made her suspicious. Then the man in the yellow suit said you are safe now Winifred I have come to take you home. Tuck we were going to bring her back directly ourselves she hasn't been in any danger. the man in the yellow suit said I suppose you are Mr.Tuck I suppose. I am tuck said formally his back straighter than usual. He began to tell the story he heard them talking about. Then he said you may want to sit down again they both sat down then jesse said who do you think you are? then Tuck told him to hush and let him to let the man speak. the man in the yellow suit said that's wise. then he took of his hat and laid it on the mantel. he said I was born west of here he began. And all the time I was growing up my grandmother told me stories they were wild unbelievable stories but I believed them they involved a dear friend of my grandmother's who married into a very old family and married the oldest of the two sons and they had two children. when the children were born they started to notice that there family was odd. The grandmothers friend was married for 20 years and the strange part was her husband didn't get older and the rest of the family didn't either. As the story went on they realized it was there story. The man in the yellow suit came to take Winifred home. He has to bring her home so he can own the Fosters woods and the fountain. He plans to sell the fountain water for a price. He plans on making advertisements to sell it. Boom he got hit in the head with the shotgun and fell like a tree. Then through the woods theirs the constable who saw everything. The constable looked at the Man in the yellow suit and said he is not dead. The constable asks why did you hit him and she said because he was talking the child away. The constable tells them he has to get the little girl girl home and Mae. So they set off on bringing the home and they had to stay and watch over the man in the yellow suit. Mae arrives home and sees her parents. She talks about how the tucks were good people and all the stuff they did.. They continued to talk for a while. After they talked she went to bed and as she was laying down she heard a horse walking outside and it was the constable. He was telling Winnie's parents that Mae had killed the man in the yellow suit and she would get hung for sure. She then went to bed. The next morning she went outside to the fence. She thought about Mae being behind bars. Then she looked up and there it was the toad. It looked parched so she went in to get water for it but her grandmother said toads dot drink water they suck it up with there skin. So she brought out some water in a bowl but the toad was gone. She dumped the water out and closed her eyes and when she opened them Jesse was kneeling beside her. They started to talk about the plan about Mae in jail.. Jesse says that Miles has a plan he can take the bars right out of the window and go through it to get her. The one bad part is the constable is watching her all the time. They talk over it but this is there only option so they have to do it. Jesse gives Winnie a bottle of water that will make stay seventeen. Jesse sets off to leave and Winnie yells wait i can help. They go over the plan Winnie thought of. They will meet the next day at midnight and go. The next day she sits and waits. After a while she goes out side again. The sky is different tough it is going to rain. She goes back in and now all she has to do is wait until midnight. She waited in her room on her rocker. Then went to her bed. When the clocked chimed 11 she felt like everything outside was waiting. She fell asleep and woke up to a jerk and was on time 5 minutes to midnight. Winnie left the house so easily she was surprised. She met up with Jesse and neither of them spoke. They grabbed hands and they ran down the road past the cottages. They kept running and they saw the jailhouse. They snuck to the back and saw the window. Miles stood on a box and got to work on the window. He dumped oil around the frame. he then began to pry the nails out. They kept close watch for the constable and hid when he came to the cell. They finished getting the nails out and boom lightning struck. They budged and budged at the bars and they finally came out. Two hands came through the window it was Mae. Her shoulders then came through then her hips and she was free. Then the first drop of rain fell. They all hugged and kissed but now she had to go back in. She just wanted to know would miles put the nails back. She looked through the bars and they were gone but for a brief moment she could here the music box melody. As august came it went by fast. As Winnie was outside by the fence in front of the touch me not cottage she could here nature. She reviewed it all how he constable leaves and when he comes back.. As the constable brought the trey he saw Winnie and was red with anger. She was a criminal but to young to be punished so she was turned into her parents. her parents asked why would you do such a thing. She told her mother why after she was done sobbing. She said the tucks are my friends. She loved them. They talked and her parents were impresed with what she has done. She was outside by the fence and she saw the toad. A dog was by the toad and winnie had to make the dog stop so she started to dance. It didnt work so the dog started to bark and it went to hit the toad but Winnie snatched it up before it had the chance. She put it inside the fence on the grass. She went inside and grabbed the bottle with the water from the sprin g and poured it on the toad. She wasnt worried because if she needed more she could go in the woods and get some. so she picked up the frog and let it free and said your safe now forever.