The world, the narrator suggests, is like a giant wheel, with spokes connected in the center by a hub that, in this case, is a small wood owned by the Foster family. She allows us to think about the characters, actually think about the consequences and curiosities and sorrows of what living forever might entail, but ultimately allowing us to decide if we would want to live forever here on Earth in the first place.The narrator explains that the first week of August is the highest point of the year's cycle and that during this time, people do things they regret later. She leaves a lot unanswered on purpose, which serves in the simplicity and profundity of the tale. It helps create the mystery over the story from the first few pages, a mystery with a very pitifully human core, with which we are presented.Babbit tells the whole story simply without extraneous elaboration or description.
You end up believing them, and you start to see the great responsibility and wonder these people have forced on them. The various characters also convince us in the importance and righteousness of their resolve, and take us along on the whilrwhind chain of events and adventures that occur within a few short days. They win her over, and they win us over, so that the ending of the book is a bittersweet one, and yet mysteriously neverending as well. So when Winnie Foster stumbles into their world and onto their secret, they take her away to convince her not to tell anyone else. And where they could be enjoying themselves profusely, the ever wise Tucks realize they hold a somewhat terrible secret that could be if found out by the general populace, as Babbit so deftly describes, one of the worst things that could happen to the world. It's quiet and atmospheric, and beneath the beauty and innocence presented of a Victorian world and a children's book, is foreboding and rather heartbreaking.We're presented with the Tuck family, who have been blessed, or cursed, with eternal life or immortality. It's a beautifully, masterfully crafted piece of literature.
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so may not appreciate it, but for anyone with a free afternoon, try this story. A lot of kids these days are forced to read these on the torturesome summer reading lists etc. Tuck Everlasting holds more power than it looks like it does. So, in conclusion, Tuck Everlasting is a story that will stay with me forever, because it has touched my life. It made me cry just watching the previews, because it looks beautifully done.
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If a writer can pull at a reader's heart strings with their books, that's really something, but when the same author can do it to the same reader with the same book, that's incredible, and that is what Natalie Babbitt has done to me.Oh yeah, don't forget-on October 11, the new Disney movie of TUCK EVERLASTING is coming to theatres! They made Winnie 15 so that she and Jesse could get REALLY romantic (and they do),and I'm so happy about it. Sure, living forever wouldn't be peachy, but Jesse would have made it worth her while.
Not only was it beautifully written, but I think Jesse and Winnie should have run off together. was dropped on their heads when they were babies! The book was awesome! When my teacher passed it out in the 6th grade, I thought it would be boring, but it turned out to be my absolute favorite! My best friend gave me the book for Christmas a year later, and I've read it several times and cried everytime. Although I haven't read TUCK PARA SIEMPRE, (though I do speak a little Spanish), I read the English version, and anyone who thinks Tuck Everlasting is boring or bad, etc.
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