Tuck Notebook (Q2 Grade) - 2690006

Tuck

Everlasting

Luke’s
Reading Response

Journal



Chapters 1-8

Prologue

Question: What is the purpose of the stranger’s trip?
My Answer: The purpose of the strangers trip was to find
someone but we don't know who exactly he's looking for.

Question: Explain the purpose of Mae Tuck’s trip.
My Answer:The purpose of Mae Tucks trip was to see her to two
sons, miles and jesse.

Chapters 1 and 2

Chapter 1 Question: Explain why Mae is so excited.
My Answer: She is so exited Because It was the first time she
would see her sons in years!

Chapter 2 Question: Explain why no one ever goes into the
woods.
My Answer: None goes inside the woods because there is no
road running through the woods.

Chapters 3 and 4

Chapter 3 Question: Explain why Winnie feels so frustrated.

My Answer: Winnie feels frustrated because she doesn't want to
be thrown around and wants to be independent.

Chapter 4 Question: What did the stranger ask Winnie?
My Answer: the stranger asked Winnie if she lived their long
so he could ask if she could tell him where the person he
was looking for is.

Chapters 5 and 6

Chapter 5 Question: How old did Jesse say he is?

My Answer: Jesse said he was 17.

Chapter 6 Question: How does Winnie react to the kidnapping?

My Answer: At first she didn't care, because she was gonna run
away anyways, but then thinking of her mother, whe started to
cry.

Chapters 7 and 8

Chapter 7 Question:When the Tucks came to Treegap for the first time,

who drank from the spring? Who didn’t?

My Answer:
The only person who did not drink was the cat. Everybody
drank from the spring except the cat.

Chapter 8 Question: Do you think Winnie believes the Tuck’s
story? Explain.

My Answer: No, because at the very beginning of this chapter it
says: “ Winnie did not believe in fairy tales. She had never
longed for a magic wand, did not expect to marry a prince,
and was scornful—most of the time—of her grandmother's
elves. So now she sat, mouth open, wide-eyed,
not knowing what to make of this extraordinary story. It
couldn't—not a bit of it—be true.”

Pg. 2 Why isn’t Mr. Tuck
getting out of bed
"The boys, Tuck! Our when he has a
sons. I'm going to chance to see his
ride down to meet sons he hasn't seen
them." him in years.

"Better not do that," Who is this man
said Tuck. looking for and why?

Pg. 5

"Well, not especially,"
said Winnie. "At least, I
don't. Why?"

The man lifted his
eyebrows. "Oh," he
said, "I'm looking for
someone. A family."

Pg. 6 She remembered the
music from long ago,
"My stars!" said Winnie's and this memory may
grandmother, her eyes be essential for later in
round. "I do believe it's come the story.
again, after all these years!"

She pressed her wrinkled
hands together, forgetting the
man in the yellow suit. "Did
you hear that, Winifred?”

Pg. 8

There was a clearing directly in front of her, at the center of Why is this boy in the
which an enormous tree thrust up, its thick roots woods?

rumpling the ground ten feet around in every direction.
Sitting relaxed with his back against the trunk was a

boy, almost a man. And he seemed so glorious to Winnie
that she lost her heart at once.

He was thin and sunburned, this wonderful boy, with a
thick mop of curly brown hair, and he wore his

battered trousers and loose, grubby shirt with as much
self-assurance as if they were silk and satin. A pair of

green suspenders, more decorative than useful, gave the
finishing touch, for he was shoeless and there was a

twig tucked between the toes of one foot. Now they know who
was making the music
Pg. 12 box melody.

"Dear me, no," said Mae, peering at her hopefully.
"It's only my music box. I didn't suppose anyone
could

hear it." She held it out to Winnie. "Do you want to
take a look at it?"

"It's pretty," said Winnie, taking the little box and
turning it over in her hands. The winding key was
still

revolving, but more and more slowly. The melody The Tucks
faltered. Another few widely spaced notes plinked, remembered when
and they drank from the
spring.
Pg. 12then it stopped.

Eighty-seven years before, the Tucks had come from a long way to the east,
looking for a place to settle. In

those days the wood was not a wood, it was a forest, just as her grandmother had
said: a forest that went on

and on and on. They had thought they would start a farm, as soon as they came to
the end of the trees. But

the trees never seemed to end. When they came to the part that was now the
wood, and turned from the trail

to find a camping place, they happened on the spring. "It was real nice," said
Jesse with a sigh. "It looked just

the way it does now. A clearing, lots of sunshine, that big tree with all those knobby
roots. We stopped and

everyone took a drink, even the horse."

Summarize
Chapters 1-8

In chapters 1-8 of Tuck Everlasting, it describes how Winnie Foster meets the Tucks.
● Winnie lives in an overprotective house in the village of Treegap with her
parents and grandmother.Their house is on the edge of the woods they own
but never go into.
● The Tucks are getting excited to see their sons whom they have not seen in ten
years. Mae is heading off to meet them, but they say that she has to be careful
not to be seen. She does not look in the mirror before she goes because it
says she has looked the same for the past 87 years. May takes along her
music box as she goes off to meet her sons.
● Winnie has a conversation with a toad. She talks about how hard her life is and
she decides to run away.
● That night Winnie heads out to her yard and meets a stranger walking by who
asks her about the woods and the people she knows in the area. He tells her
that he is looking for a family. Winnie’s grandmother comes out to tell Winnie to
go inside. Just then some music is heard in the woods. The grandmother says
it is the elf music she hasn’t heard in years. Winnie thinks it sounds like a
music box and the stranger is very interested in it.



Chapters 9-17

Chapters 9 and 10

Chapter 9 Question: “We’re plain as salt, us Tucks”. What point is
Mae trying to make with this simile?

My Answer: I think they're trying to say they are just plain like a
normal human

Chapter 10 Question: How does Mae explain all of the “stuff” in the
house?
My Answer: With a story.

Chapters 11 and 12

Chapter 11 Question: If you were taken by the Tucks, how would
you feel? Explain.

My Answer: I would feel ok and not if my mom was
overprotective, then i would feel good but it's my mom so I
don't know but i think i would be happy.

Chapter 12 Question: What did Tuck mean when he told Winnie that life is a

“wheel” that continues to move around?

My Answer: it's fun but it goes around and around

Chapters 13 and 14

Chapter 13 Question: Do you think the Fosters will believe the
stranger, or blame him? Explain.

My Answer: If I were the Fosters, i would believe the man
because i would be looking for my child and would be very
desperate

Chapter 14 Question: Analyze Tuck’s behavior when he comes to
speak with Winnie.
My Answer: I think it's very weird that tuck talked in a happy
tone because i expect him to be grouchy.

Chapters 15-17

Chapter 15 Question: “All that remains is to write it on paper, giving
me the wood, and to sign it.” How do you suppose these words make the
Fosters feel?

My Answer: If they talked to me that way i would feel very
uncomfortable and would not except it.

Chapter 16 Question: Why is the stranger being so “closed mouthed”?
Explain.

My Answer: Because he wants to go ahead and get to winnie.

Chapter 17 Question: What did Miles reveal to Winnie about his children

during the boat trip?

My Answer: They are both very old and did not drink from the
spring because they never knew about it.

Page 87 “Put it It took miles so
back Miles” she long to catch
said her voice that one fish,
dry and harsh. and now winne
tells him to
Page 72 “We could throw it back.
get married even.
That would be pretty Jesse said when shes
good wouldn't it? We 17 she could drink
could have a grand from the spring and
old time, go all then go run off with
around the world, him! Not what I
see everything. expected him to say.

Page 48 Winnies She got real shy when
shyness returned at he she saw him at first,
once when she saw but then she noticed he
the big man with his was nice and gave her
sad face and baggy a warm feeling.
trousers, but as he
gazed at her, the
warm, pleasing feeling
came once again

Page 55 I find it very random
how she just out of the
Boys? Are you bloom of things she
decent? What did just says that.
you put on to swim
in? I got winnie
foster up here, do
you hear me?

Page 58 They are

“No I will. I fighting who

found her first, gets to take

right Winnie her home.

Foster?”

Page 66 This may

It's a wheel become
Winnie. Turning useful to

and turning,

never stopping. winnie in
the future.

Summarize
Chapters 9-17

Through the chapters, Winnie basically gets
kidnaped and taken away by the Tucks. They
have Mea Tuck, Tuck, Jesse, And Miles. And
Winnie is attracted to Jesse. Then they explain
to Winnie Foster that there is a spring in the
woods next to Winnie's house that if you drink
from, you will become everlasting. Which
means you cant die from age. The Tucks
appear normal, but they are really like 200
years old!

Chapters 18-25

Chapters 18 and 19

Chapter 18 Question: . What did the family have for breakfast?
My Answer: Flapjacks because Winnie told Miles to throw the
fish back.

Chapter 19 Question: What is the stranger’s plans for the woods?
My Answer: To sell the spring and then spread the word and
advertise it by Winnie.

Chapters 20 and 21

Chapter 20 Question:Explain what will happen to Mae if the
stranger dies.

My Answer: If the stranger dies, she will be sent to the gallows.

Chapter 21 Question: . What happened to the stranger?

My Answer: The stranger did die.

Chapters 22 and 23

Chapter 22 Question: What did Winnie learn about toads in this
chapter?
My Answer: Winnie learned that toads suck water from their
skin when it rains.

Chapter 23 Question: Why is the weather so difficult to bear during
this time period?

My Answer: The weather is so unbearable because it is so hot.

Chapters 24 and 25

Chapter 24 Question: What sound symbolized the exit of the Tucks?
My Answer: The Tucks left with the tinkling little melody of the
music box and then, they were gone

Chapter 25 Question: Explain how the toad is in danger.
My Answer: Their is a dog barking right next to them

Epilogue

What does the reader learn from the epilogue in this novel? Do
you think the epilogue was necessary?
Winnie did not live to drink from the spring when she was 17
but instead where the wood was once, lies a cemetery where
Winnie was buried.

Page 89 I expected him to

“No” said call winnie out

miles. “Nothing

we wanted to

keep”

Page 91 Earlier before this part,
Winnie says that she
It accored that he saw that Tuck has a
was the dearest of sad and wrinkled face,
them all, but she but said hes the
could explain why dearest of them all.
she felt that way She noticed that he
was very dearly.

Page 99 He's done taking that
child!
“No!” she
screamed, for at
last she hated
him. “I won’t go
with you! I won’t!

Page 100 She hit him in the back
of the head with a
With a dull cracking shotgun out of
sound, the stock of nowhere!
the shotgun
smashed into the
back of his skull

Page 108 She is remembering
the image of the lying
At once the knocked out image of
image of the the man
man in the
yellow suit rose
up.

Page 109 Winnie remembered
these words from the
“Yep, she got him a constanible.
good one alright. He
never even came. So
it's a open and shut
case. Since i seen her
do it. Eyewitness.
They hang her for
sure”

Summarize

Chapters 18-25

The stranger tries to bring winnie back to the Fosters in
return for the wood while he was trying to get her, Mea
smacked him in the side of the head brutally hitting the side
of his head. The he died from the incident. Mea was sent to
jail and then eventually, to the gallow where she would
hang. But then, with miles his carpending skills he pulls out
the window cell for Mae Tuck to squeeze through. Then
winnie took her place and the Tucks ran. Then when the
constable finds out, he says that she helped a murderer
escape and that if she was older, she would be punished.

Caring, Kind, Cerduos,
Brave.

Polite, Kind, Poor,
Unpopular, Optimistic.

Old, Coragios, Polite,
Smart, Caring.

Kind, Optimistic, Caring,
Wise.

Kind, Optimistic,
Caring, Wise.

Selfish, Rude.

Click and write Click and write
character traits character traits
that only apply to that only apply to
Mrs. Tuck. Mrs. Foster.

Click and write character traits that these
two characters have in common.



Places:Tucks house-(old furniture, things everywhere)-Fosters

house(Nice furniture, nice food.)-Jail(Lots of cells)-Woods(Big,
spring with a everlasting taste.)-Village.

Time period:

Type: Third Person Omniscient.

How do you know?
It explains every characters feelings.

Type: Winnie wants freedom

Conflict: Her parents are very strict about
her Being on her own and they are very strinct
to wnere she can go even though winnie loves
to explore.

Throughout the novel the tone was mostly calm.
However, at the climax it became more
mournful.

The toad played a important part in the story. He
showed up when winnie was thinking of running
away

Growing up is the hard part of life.

The constable comes into the jail
cell to find Winnie has taken
Mae’s place and helped her
escape.

Miles dismantles the jail cell window and helps The Man in the Yellow Suit tells Winnie’s
Mae escape. Winnie is there to provide support. If parents that if they don’t give him what he
the constable hears their escape, they’re doomed! wants he won’t tell them where their
daughter is.

Mae get so mad at The Man in the Yellow The Tuck family continues to stay young whil
Suit that she hits him over the head with Winnie ages and dies. A fire burns down the w
the gun and kills him. and covers the secret forever. The toad lives fo
because of the water from Winnie.
Winnie sneaks off into the forest and
discovers a boy drinking from a
small stream. Then his family
kidnaps her.

Winnie’s family controls her. They won’t let her try
anything risky to make a difference in the world like she
wants to.

Winnie lives in a forest area A girl names Winnie Winnie sees a dog wanting
that her family owns near Foster lives with her to attack the toad so she
the town of Treegap. It’s in family by a wood they rescues him and pours the
the past with wagons own that no one goes fountain water on him.
instead of cars. into. At its center is a
special fountain.

Tuck
Everlasting

Booksnaps

Tuck Everlasting Page

I pulled this out of
page 108 and is a big
memory moment
because she
remembers the image

Place your page image over

of the man in thethis box so it is covered up!
yellow suit.

Tuck Everlasting Page

In this page,
Winnie notices that
Tuck is the dearest
of them all to her,
even though his
face looks sad.

Place your page image over
this box so it is covered up!

Tuck Everlasting Page

He out of
nowhere started
to steal the child
against her will.

Place your page image over
this box so it is covered up!