Maxwell Howey - 20-21 Tuck Online Notebook (Q2 Grade) - 3438722

Tuck

Everlasting

Maxwell’s
Reading Response

Journal



Chapters 1-8

Prologue

Question: Summarize how the month of August is described.
My Answer: The month of August is described as a very still
and hot month, and that nothing really ever happens in the time
of the month. My opinion is supported in the text when it says,
“ but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is
curiously silent, too”

Question: What is the purpose of the stranger’s trip?
My Answer: The purpose of the strangers trip was to find
someone, but he would not tell who. To support my thinking,
the text said, “ And at sunset a stranger appeared at the
Fosters’ gate. He was looking for someone, but he didn’t say
who.”

Chapters 1 and 2

Chapter 1 Question: What three things did the narrator say are important?
My Answer: The narrator said that the first house, the wood,
and the road are important.

Chapter 2 Question: Explain why Mae is so excited.
My Answer: Mae is so excited because she gets to see Miles
and Jesse, and she only sees them once every ten years.

Chapters 3 and 4

Chapter 3 Question: What was Winnie referring to when she said she might do it

tomorrow while everyone is sleeping?

My Answer: She was referring to running away, because she felt
stressed by her mother and grandmother.

Chapter 4 Question: What interrupted the conversation and how did Granny

identify the interruption?

My Answer: Granny interrupted the conversation by hearing
the music coming from the wood. Ganny identified this music
as elf music.

Chapters 5 and 6

Chapter 5 Question: How does Winnie feel about the wood now?
My Answer: She feels very welcome by the wood, she said that
it was very peaceful.

Chapter 6 Question: Explain why Mae gave Winnie the music box.
My Answer: Mae gave Winnie the music box because she
thought it would calm Winnie down, which it did.

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: When the Tucks first came to Treegap, Ma, Pa,
Miles, Jesse, and the horse drank from the spring, and the cat
did not.

Chapter 8 Question: Why do you suppose Winnie decided to go along with the

Tucks?

My Answer: Because she was thinking about running away, but
she was scared because she would be all alone, but now she
has the Tucks to keep her company.

Page 22 This is an example of a
CC, because Winnie
“But she realized that was talking about
sometime during the night running away so much,
she had made up her mind: but ended up not
she would not run away running away.
today.”

Page 40 This is an important

memory because Tuck
“There was a long pause. could have killed
Mae’s fingers, laced
himself.
together in her lap,

twisted with the tension of

remembering. ‘The shot

knocked him down’ “

Page 13 This is an AA because
Winnie said this twice
“I will, though. You’ll to the toad, and
see. Maybe even first wanted the toad to truly
thing tomorrow, while believe that she was
everyone’s still running away.
asleep.”

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: What did Miles and Jesse do as soon as they got home?
My Answer: They jumped in the pond when they got home,
because they were very hot from the long and hot day.

Chapter 10 Question: Analyze the differences between the Tuck’s house and

Winnie’s house.

My Answer: The Tucks house looks very careless and messy,
while Winnie house is very neat and tidy.

Chapters 11 and 12

Chapter 11 Question: What has to happen in order for Winnie to go home?
My Answer: Tuck first has to talk to Winnie to promise not to
tell anyone about the spring.

Chapter 12 Question: What does Tuck say about immortality?
My Answer: He said that life is a wheel that turns, and that
humans are a part of that wheel. He also said that if you would
drink from the spring, you would be left behind, and not be what
life is: change.

Chapters 13 and 14

Chapter 13 Question: What news did the stranger reveal to the Fosters?
My Answer: The stranger revealed to the Fosters that he knew
were Winnie was.

Chapter 14 Question: What is ironic about Winnie missing her home?
My Answer: She wanted to run away, but when she was away
from home, she wanted to go back home, maybe changing her
mind about running away.

Chapters 15-17

Chapter 15 Question: What did the Fosters decide to do?
My Answer: The Fosters decided to sell the Wood for the sake
of Winnie.

Chapter 16 Question: What does the reader learn about Charleyville in this chapter?
My Answer: I learned that Charleville is a place with a jail that
holds people that have done serious crimes.

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

trip?

My Answer: Miles revealed to Winnie that one of his children
was a girl, and that they were in their 80’s by now.

Page 57 The unanswered
question that Winnie is
“Why, they were crazy, she asking herself is if the
thought harshly, and they Tucks really telling her
were criminals.” the truth about the
spring and living
forever.

Page #64 The big idea that the
Tucks want to tell
“That’s what us Tucks Winnie is to keep the
are, Winnie. Stuck spring a secret, and to
so’s we can’t move not drink from it.
on.”

Page 64 The Tucks
appearances are not
“That’s what us Tucks changing over time, yet
are, Winnie. Stuck their life-situations
so’s we can’t move change.
on.”

Page 79 The stranger thinks
that Winnie was
“ ‘Would you mind if I rode on kidnapped for a bad
ahead? I’m worried about cause, but the Tucks
that child.’ “ kidnapped Winnie just
to tell her about the
spring, and not to hurt
her in any way.

Page 53 Mae gives Winnie
some of Miles and
“ ‘Oh,’ said Mae, ‘They Jesse’s details of their
go different places, do life away from home.
different things. They
work at what jobs they
can get, try to bring
home some of their
money.’ “

Page 53 That is one rule for the

Tucks that they made
“ ‘But they can’t stay in up to not make people
one place for long, you suspicious of them.
know. None of us can.

People get to

wondering.’ “

Summarize
Chapters 9-17

● After Winnie was kidnapped, the Tucks
welcomed her into their home.

● Then Tuck took Winnie in a boat on the lake
and talked to her about keeping the spring a
secret, and to not drink from it.

● The stranger and the constable go to find
Winnie after making a deal with the Fosters,
they give him the wood, and he gets Winnie
back, but Mae hits him in the back of the head
and kills him.

● Winnie goes with Miles to go fishing, and
Miles catches one but Winnie tells him to put
it back because she does not like killing
things, so Miles puts the fish back in the lake.

Chapters 18-25

Chapters 18 and 19

Chapter 18 Question: What did the family have for breakfast?
My Answer: The Tucks and Winnie had flapjacks, because Miles
let the fish that he caught go for Winnie.

Chapter 19 Question: What is the stranger’s plans for the woods?
My Answer: He is going to try to sell the water for a lot of
money, and he wants the Tucks to advertise him. He will also
drink some of the water.

Chapters 20 and 21

Chapter 20 Question: Explain what will happen to Mae if the stranger dies.
My Answer: She will be hung to die along with the rest of the
Tuck family, but little does the constable know, the Tucks
cannot die.

Chapter 21 Question: Why weren’t the Tucks charged with kidnapping? Explain.
My Answer: They were not charged with kidnapping because
Winnie says that she came there on her own free will.

Chapters 22 and 23

Chapter 22 Question: What present did Jesse give to Winnie?
My Answer: Jesse gave Winnie a bottle of water from the spring,
and tells her to drink some when she is seventeen and come
looking for them after they get Mae out of the prison.

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

period?

My Answer: Because it is very hot and the sun is up most of the
day, because it is still summer, but it is almost over.

Chapters 24 and 25

Chapter 24 Question: What sound symbolized the exit of the Tucks?
My Answer: The tinkling of Mae’s music box in the distance.

Chapter 25 Question: Why didn’t Winnie get charged with aiding the escape?
My Answer: Because she was too young to be be charged with
the law.

Epilogue

What does the reader learn from the epilogue in this novel? Do
you think the epilogue was necessary?

Yes, because it shows that Winnie has went through the wheel
of life that Tuck talked about, with being born, living, then dying.
It also says that the spring was destroyed, so Winnie could not
drink from it, because she poured the water that Jesse gave her
on the toad, who was still there, so the story about the spring
was true.

Page 129 This memory is
important because it
“It made her tremble still to might make Winnie not
remember the constable’s go out of the house
face when he found her.” secretly anymore.

Page 134 This shows how much
Treegap has changed
“The sign said since Winnie helped
‘Welcome To them escape the jail
Treegap’, but it was and the Tucks ran
hard to believe that away.
this was really
Treegap.”

Page 132 This is a CC because
she could have just
“Winnie pulled the used some of the water
cork from the mouth of for the toad, just in
the bottle, and case something bad
kneeling, she poured happened to the wood,
the precious water, she would have at
very slowly and least some water to
carefully, over the drink for her journey to
toad.” find the Tucks.

Page 121 This is an AA because
she keeps on sneaking
“Leaving the house was so outside when she is
easy that Winnie felt faintly not allowed to.
shocked.”

Page 127 This shows that the
first week of August is
“The wheel was over, and that the
turning again, slowly weather is changing
now, but soon to go again.
faster,”

Page 114 This is a CC because
the Tucks wanted
“Winnie, you can drink Winnie to not drink
it, and then come find from the water, but
us.” Jesse is now giving her
some to drink.

Summarize

Chapters 18-25

In these chapters, Mae goes to jail and is going
to be hung, so Miles breaks her out and Winnie
takes her place in the cell so the Tucks can have
time to escape, and the contable found Winnie
instead of Mae in the cell. The constable says
that Winnie is too young to be charged with the
law, but that she should be punished at home.
Jesse gave her some water from the spring so
that when she was 17, she could drink some and
go looking for the Tucks. But she saw a dog
trying to kill the toad, so Winnie poured all the
water from the bottle Jesse gave her, think that
she could get some more from the wood, but a
couple years later, the tree with the spring was
destroyed by a lightning strike, and people dug
the spring up, so Winnie died.

Winnie is a very serious
person and has a lot of
struggles about things she
thinks about doing and
maybe not doing. She is a
very caring child to the
people that she likes, and
she like to dream about
the future.

Jesse is a very loving and
caring person that likes to
look at the positive side of
things that are sometimes
negative, and he is skilled
at a lot of things.

Miles is a very skilled
carpenter that focuses
hard on important tasks
that he must do. He also
is a very serious person
that is also a caring
person and a wise
person.

Angus is very stubborn
person that is also nice and
kind, and doesn’t want
anyone to know about the
spring. He and Mae also
make things out of wood to
sell.

Mae is a very
worrisome person
whose music box
helps her keep calm,
and she really cares
about Miles and
Jesse because she
loves them so much.
She is a very caring
person who does not
like hurt anyone
when she doesn’t
need to, mentally or
physically.

The Stranger is a very sly
and sneaky person who gets
what he wants is clever
ways. He is also an evil
person who wants to get
rich, but sometimes he is
nice.

Mae is very She is a very
flexible towards protective and
Winnie and her stubborn person
sons.

They are both very caring towards their
children and love them.



Places: The Tucks’ messy house, the Fosters’
clean house, and the eerie wood.
Time period: 1880’s

Type: Third person omniscient
How do you know? I know the thoughts and
feelings of all the major characters in the book.

Type: character vs self
Conflict: Winnie is trying to decide whether

she will run away or not.

Throughout the novel the tone was mostly
serious; however, at the climax it became more
active.

I think a symbol is Mae’s music box because it
symbolizes relief, age, and Mae’s presence.

I think that the theme of this book is that
friendship can come in many different and
strange ways.

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

Mae get so mad at The Man in the Yellow Winnie sees a dog wanting
Suit that she hits him over the head with to attack the toad so she
the gun and kills him. rescues him and pours the
fountain water on him.
The Man in the Yellow Suit tells Winnie’s
parents that if they don’t give him what he The Tuck family continues to stay young while
wants he won’t tell them where their Winnie ages and dies. A fire burns down the wo
daughter is. and covers the secret forever. The toad lives fore
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.

A girl names Winnie Winnie lives in a forest area Miles dismantles the jail cell window and helps
Foster lives with her that her family owns near Mae escape. Winnie is there to provide support. If
family by a wood they the town of Treegap. It’s in the constable hears their escape, they’re doomed!
own that no one goes the past with wagons
into. At its center is a instead of cars.
special fountain.

Tuck
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Booksnaps

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I thought Jesse wouldn’t do this
because when Winnie met him at
the spring, he didn’t want her to
drink from it, but now he is
giving Winnie some water from
the spring to drink when she is
seventeen.

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Winnie snuck out of her house
for the second time, so this
makes it an AA with a little bit of
a CC because you would think
that Winnie would have learned
her lesson, but apparently not.

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This is a change over time
because it shows that the first
week of August is over, and that
the wheel of time is turning
again.

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