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Dear Readers,
In the prologue of Tuck Everlasting, it is the first week of August, the top of the live-long year. At the highest seat of the Ferris Wheel. There is a beautiful site. The first week of August is very still and hot. With blank white dawns, glaring noon's, and sunsets smeared with too much color its is exclusively silent. Mae Tuck is on her way to go see her two sons, Jesse and Miles at the edge of the village Treegap like she does every ten years.
At noon, Winnie Foster, child of the people that owned Treegap wood looses her patience and thinks about running away.
NO connection, you would agree. But things can come together in inexplicable ways. You'll see!!
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Dear Readers,
In Chapter one there was a road that led to treegap and then at the end of the cow made raod came the last of the forest that had stood, "the wood". On the other side if the wood continued the road, but it no longer belonged to the cows it was the property of people. the first house was a touch me not appearance and surrounded it was a iron fence. The wood was owned by the Fosters in the touch-me-not cottage, yet they never go there. They never wander among the trees. Winnie is the only child in the Foster family, but never went in the woods. "quote~ on quote page"
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Dear Readers,
In chapter two during August one day Mae Tuck woke up happily. Her two sons will be coming home tomorrow. She said it once more a bit louder and woke up her husband. Tuck, the husband was asleep. He seemed flustered and was awoken from his dream. He said it was the good dream again, but Mae already knew that because the only time Tuck smiled was when he was having that dream in his sleep. It was the dream when they were all in heaven and never heard of Treegap.
Well Tuck decided to go back to bed Mae decided that she was going to ride her horse to the woods where she will meet the boys. It has been ten years since she went to the treegap. She wouldn't be coming home until tomorrow. She looked in the mirror to see her reflection yet, she knew what it looked like and she didn't care. Mae Tuck, her husband, miles, and Jesse have looked the same for eighty seven years.
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Dear Readers,
In chapter three Winnie Foster was sitting inside her family fenced in yard. If you were to be watching her you would think she is crazy. Winnie was sitting there just talking to a toad. Yup I said a toad. She was talking about l.eaving her home and just running away from everyone. Since she was talking to a toad it was hard to know weather or not the toad was listening. Winnie then flung some pebbles she found by the fence at the toad. Honestly how mean is that what did the toad do to her other than listen to her ramble on!!! It soon turned in to a game for her. Then all of sudden she heard her grandmothers voice "Winnie! Don't sit on the dirty grass. You'll stain you boots and stockings." Nearly a second later her mother adds "Come in now, Winnie. Right away. You'll get heat stroke on a day like this. And your lunch is ready." It almost seems like Winnie has a bossy brother or sister. After talking to the toad for a few more moments. When all of a sudden she heard her mothers voice. So Winnie went inside.
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Dear Readers,
In chapter four Winnie was sitting outside again. It was sunset on the same long day. When a stranger came walking up the road from a nearby village. Weirdly he paused right in front of the Fosters house actually right in front of their gate. After a few awkward moments of him just weirdly watching Winnie he called out "Good evening."
The stranger was tall and narrow. He had a long chin that faded into a thin, apologetic beard. The stranger had on a jaunty yellow suit that seemed to glow in the faded light. He carried a little black hat which was dangling from his grip.
The stranger started talking to Winnie. What type of person just starts talking to a little girl that don't even now?!?!?!?!?!? Then the man started asking her questions about her family. First he shouldn't be asking her but if a person does why would she answer??? A few moments later the cottage door open and Winnie's grandmother appeared and came stormed over to be in between Winnie and the man. She soon shooed the man off.
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Dear Readers,
In chapter five Winnie gets up quickly, like she has something super exciting to look
forward to. She decides she's going to half-heartedly run away. She'll go for an
adventure in the woods, and hey, maybe it'll lead to running away. So Winnie
heads into the woods and sees a bunch of wildlife, including that friendly toad.
She keeps going and ends up in a little clearing. There, she finds a giant tree
and a boy.
When he sees her, they start talking. Turns out the boy, Jesse, is 104. Oh
wait, no, he's seventeen. We're confused. Either way, he's much older than she
is, Winnie thinks. Winnie asks for some of the water he was drinking, but Jesse won't let her at it.
Jesse's getting a little worried when his mother, Mae, and brother Miles show
up.
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Dear Readers,
In chapter six before she knows it, Winnie's being "kidnapped" by the Tucks. They put her
on Mae's horse and start racing away from the spring. As they go, they end up rushing past the guy in the yellow suit. Mae shouts a quick excuse that Winnie's getting riding lessons. Then they leave him in the dust. They keep racing until they pause by a nearby trickle of water. Here, the Tucks get stuck trying to figure out how they're going to explain everything to Winnie. Winnie, fed up and overwhelmed, starts crying. She cries even more when they
say she'll have to stay with them overnight.
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Dear Readers,
In chapter seven it was the strangest story Winnie had ever heard. She suspected that it was the first time they had ever told it before expect to one and other. Eighty-seven years ago the Tucks had come from a long way to the east looking for a place to settle. Back then the woods weren't woods but a forest. After a while they turned of the trail looking for a place to camp since the trees never seemed to end. When they came upon a stream. Every one drank from it even the horse. Well actually the cat didn't drink from it either. The water tasted sort of strange. They camped their over night, and before they left in the morning Pa carved a T on one of the tree and they went on.
The first time they found out something was peculiar was when Jesse fell out of a tree. He landed plump on his head. You would expect him to have atleast broken his neck, but come to find out it didn't hurt him one bit. Next thing that was weird was when some hunters thought the horse was a deer and shot her. The bullet should have killed her but instead it went rite through the horse and barely even left a mark. Then Pa got a snake bite, Jesse ate poison toads, and Mae cut herself. Miles wife left him when she was convinced he sold he soul to the devil. So they left town.
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Dear Readers,
In chapter eight, Winnie now knows her kidnappers secret- they can live forever..... and will live forever. Only from the water in the spring. The Tucks, her kidnappers were making sure she wouldn't tell because it would be a disaster.
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Dear Readers,
In chapter nine the August sun rolled up, hung at the mid heaven for a blinding hour, and at the last wheeled westward before the journey was done. Winnie was exhausted long before than, so Miles had to carry her some of the way. Her cheeks were red from getting sunburned. Then she was rescued by Mae who made her wear her blue straw hat.
When they finally arrived home the boys were so excited and turned and raced away. When Winnie finally acknowledge there was a pond there was two big splashes.
Soon they were at the door to a little house. There was Mae's husband Tuck standing in the door. After seeing Mae, Tuck demanded "Where's the child?"
Once Winnie saw Tuck her shyness returned. Tuck was a big man , he had a sad face, and was wearing baggy trousers. When Tuck saw Winnie he soon started to say "There's just no words to tell you how happy I am to see you. It's the finest thing in. . . ." He stopped in mid sentence. After talking to Mae for a second Tuck soon started the sentence over and actually finished it this time. "There's just no words to tell you how happy I am to see you. It's the finest thing in-oh-at least eighty years."
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Dear Readers,
In chapter ten Winnie goes all around the Tucks' house and finds that it's
totally different than her own. Her house is super tidy and organized. Mae takes
her on a tour and explains how the four of them live.
Jesse and Miles go out into the world periodically
and work in different places. They have to stay on the move because their
eternalness makes them suspicious. Mae and Tuck have had this particular house
for two decades, and that may be pushing the max amount of time they can stay
somewhere.
Mae seems pretty matter-of-fact about the whole living forever thing. This is just
the hand they've been dealt, and they have no choice but to play it. Tuck
doesn't feel the same way, though. The conversation is interrupted when Miles
and Jesse come in from swimming. Mae warns them to behave because Winnie's
there; she's even worried that they might be naked, which would be totally
inappropriate in front of little Winnie. She tells them to change and takes
Winnie to see about dinner, which Tuck is in charge of that day.
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Dear Readers,
In chapter eleven Winnie has supper with the tucks, they have flapjacks, bacon, bread, and applesauce. Instead of them eating together at a table they all eat in the parlor, which Winnie is not used to. While they were eating Winnie gets home sick and tells then that she wanted to go home. Then, after supper Tuck takes Winnie row boating, so they cant talk and she can see the frogs.
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Dear Readers,
In chapter tweleve the sky was ragged blaze of red, pink, and orange. It trembled on the surface of the pond as if the colors spilled out of a paint box. Now the sun was dropping fast.
Winnie was newly brave with the thoughts of being rescued, and climed bodly into the row boat. Tuck told her how it was feeding time which is the best time to fish. When the bullfrog spoke again Winnie jumped. Tuck talked to Winnie for a long time. They suddenly heard Miles frantic voice down the pond he said that the horse had gone missing!
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Dear Readers,
In chapter thirteen
seen that one coming. Yellow Suit Guy rides the horse back to the Fosters' house, where the
Fosters are all really worried about Winnie. Winnie's grandma opens the door, and the man tells her
that he knows where Winnie is.
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Dear Readers,
In chapter fourteen there was nothing for the Tucks to do but go to bed. It was now too dark for them to go out looking for the horse theif. After a long amount of nerves worrying Mae sent every one to bed. Winnie was going to be sleeping on the old sofa .
The sofa cushions were very lumpy and the whole thing smelled like old newspaper. Mae had given her a chairpad to use as a pillow it was thin and hard and rough under her cheeks. The worse thing was the fact that she was still in her clothes she firmedly refused the offer of Mae's spare nightgown.
First Mae came down to check on her, then Tuck, and next Jesse. Jesse knelt beside her and started talking to Winnie. He said " I been thinking it over. Pa's right about you having to keep the secret. Its's not hard to see why. But the thing is, you knowing about the water already, and living right next to it so's you could go there any time, well, listen, how'd it be if you was to wait till you're seventeen, same age as me- heck, that's only six years off- and then you could go and drink some, and then you could go away with me! We could get married ,even. That'd be pretty good, wouldn't it! We could have a grand old time, go all around the world, see every thing. Listen, Ma and Pa and Miles, they don't know how to enjoy it, what we got. Why, heck, Winnie, life's to enjoy yourself, isn't it? What else is it good for? That's what I say. And you and me, we could have a good time that never, never stopped. Wouldn't that be something? Once again Winnie adored him. Soon he went back upstairs and Winnie lay'd down and soon finally feel asleep.
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Dear Readers,
In chapter fifteen the "same moonlight silvered over the roof off the touch-me-not cottage." The man in the ugly yellow suit was in the Fosters spotless parlor, he was telling the Fosters how he knew where Winnie was. The man said that he followed the people who kidnapped Winnie, as soon as they got to their destination with Winnie still with them, he turned around and came back directly to them. He knew of how Winnie's family had been looking for her all day, so he assumed that they would be awake worrying about her.
The man ignoried their exclamations and began to talk again, about how he has traveled a long way looking for a wood to settle in, of course he goes on to say how he has been looking for a wood just like the one the Fosters own next door, and how great it would be for him to own that wood. (Which doesn't suprise me with the way this man acts!) What type of person uses how a family's missing child against them just so he can settle down, honestly I think that he using this situation to his advantage, of course the Foster are going to accept it since its either keep the woods and lose their child or lose the wood and get their child back! The crazy man went onto say how with out him they may have never heard that Winnie is still alive, also that the Fosters are very fortunate that he was been their an witnessed the kidnapping. Of course he had to keep praising himself, this time he said that he is the only person in the world who knows where Winnie is. It is not fair that he is dragging Winnie into the middle of this it is not her fault!
Then the man went on to say how he has what they want, and that they have what he wants. So to make it clear, he wants the wood and they want Winnie back. He also said that it is simple which it is no where close to being simple. Sitting in the room there was shocked faces on all three of the Fosters. After the crazy man went on for a little while the Fosters accepted the deal. Which we all knew was going to happen.
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Dear Readers,
In chapter sixteen,
tries to gets some dish from Yellow Suit Guy, but Yellow Suit Guy says as little
as he can. Still, the constable manages to learn that the Fosters have sold
their land to Yellow Suit Guy.This guy continues to chit-chat on and on—about how there's a new jail, and
how long the legal process will take, and how most of the hardcore criminals end
up in Charleyville. It all seems kind of irrelevant.Finally, Yellow Suit Guy can't take it anymore.
Guy takes off. He'll definitely get there first.
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Dear Readers,
In chapter seventeen Winnie helps Miles catch fish for breakfast. She got in the small rowboat, and miles handed her one of the fishing poles. Then after watching the frogs for a while she caught her first fish, but it got away. They talked while they waited for the fish and Winnie said "It'd be nice, if nothing ever had to die" but miles disagreed and told her that if every creature would stay alive then everything would just be squeezed together on earth for ever. When Miles caught a fish Winnie felt bad for it so she asked him to put it back so it wouldn't suffer. So they went back without any fish.