John Pigos - 20-21 Tuck Online Notebook (Q2 Grade) - 5229318

Tuck

Everlasting

Johnny’s
Reading Response

Journal

Chapters 1-8

Prologue

Question: Summarize how the month of August is described.
My Answer: The author describes August as motionless and hot
and compares it to a ferris wheel.

Question:According to the narrator, how do people act during this month?
My Answer: People during this month do things that they are
sure to be sorry for after.

Chapters 1 and 2

Chapter 1 Question: Explain why no one ever goes into the woods.
My Answer: People don’t go into the woods there was no road
through it and it was owned by the Fosters.

Chapter 2 Question: Describe Tuck’s dream.
My Answer: Tuck’s dream is the whole family is in heaven and
never heard of Treegap.

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: Winnie was referring to running away.

Chapter 4 Question: What did the stranger ask Winnie?
My Answer: The stranger asked Winnie how long they have
been living there and if she knew everybody.

Chapters 5 and 6

Chapter 5 Question: Explain why Winnie decided not to run away.
My Answer: Winnie decided not to run away because she didn’t know where to run and

there was nowhere she wanted to be.

Chapter 6 Question: How does Winnie react to the kidnapping?
My Answer: Winnie is in shock and speechless.

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 came to Treegap for the first time everybody including the

horse drank except the cat.

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

Tucks?

My Answer: Winnie decided to go along with the Tucks because whatever she said it

probably wouldn't change anything.

Pg 13, 15, 16 “tomorrow She is planning
morning” something tomorrow
morning.

Pg 15 “do you know She feels trapped
they have hardly ever
let me out of this yard
all by myself?”

Pg 21 “melody from Makes me wonder
the woods” what is really going on
in the woods.

Pg 37 “87 years before…” The author is revealing
the story behind the
Tucks.

Pg 40 “Then they had They realized that the
remembered drinking water had made them
the water.” immortal.

Pg 43 “All right” I expected her to want
to go back home, but
she chose not to.

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. Mae 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.
● The next morning Winnie decided to run away into the woods, and finds Jesse
Tuck drinking water from a spring. And she wants to drink and he says no.
Then, Mae Tuck and Miles Tuck appear, and they kidnap her so she couldn’t
drink the water. They explain that the water makes you immortal and thats what
happened to them. And they decide to take her home with them, on the way,
Miles brings out the music box, and Winnie realizes that the music from the
woods was not elves but Miles’s music box. But, while they were explaining
and using the music box, the stranger was watching them the entire time.



Chapters 9-17

Chapters 9 and 10

Chapter 9 Question:What did Miles and Jesse do as soon as they got home?
My Answer:As soon as they got home they jumped into a pond.

Chapter 10 Question:Explain why the Tucks have to move soon.
My Answer:They have to move because people will realize that
they are not aging.

Chapters 11 and 12

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

Chapter 12 Question: How does Winnie feel about death?
My Answer: Winnie does not want to die.

Chapters 13 and 14

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

Chapter 14 Question: Describes Jesse’s proposition to Winnie.
My Answer: Jesse’s proposition to Winnie is that when she turns 17 she should drink the

water and marry Jesse and they could travel the world.

Chapters 15-17

Chapter 15 Question: Describe the stranger’s plan.
My Answer: The stranger’s plan is to get the woods from the
Fosters and then drink the water.

Chapter 16 Question: What does the reader learn about Charleyville in this chapter?
My Answer: The reader learns that Charleyville is probably a bigger
town than Treegap.

Chapter 17 Question: What conclusion did Winnie come up with regarding the Tuck’s secret?
My Answer: Winnie concludes that she will keep the Tuck’s
secret.

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Pg 58 “there was a man on There is something
the road just outside suspicious about the
Treegap” stranger.

Pg 64 “you can’t have Tuck is telling Winnie
living without dying” that living forever
sucks.

Pg 68 “Was it true? Winnie is doubting the
Could they really story.
never die, these
Tucks?

Pg 79 “You are kind of a The stranger does not
close-lipped feller ain’t you? want to reveal
anything.

Pg 84 “Remember I I think Miles misses
told you I had 2 his family a lot.
children?”

Pg 86 “The Tucks Winnie realizes that
were right” people should not live
forever.

Summarize
Chapters 9-17

● Winnie arrives at the Tucks house and meets Tuck.
● Winnie thinks that the Tuck’s house is disorganized.
● Winnie announces during dinner that she wants to go

home right now and the Tucks tell her they need to talk to
her first.
● Tuck takes Winnie on a boat on the lake, and tells her that
living forever sucks and that she can’t tell anyone about
the spring. The Tucks find out that the horse has been
stolen.
● The stranger goes to the Fosters house and tells them he
knows where Winnie is.
● The Tucks go to bed and Winnie can’t sleep.
● The stranger forces them to sell the woods because he
knows where Winnie is.
● The stranger takes the constable to Winnie.
● When Winnie wakes up she goes fishing with Miles and
she realizes that nobody should live forever and the Tucks
are right.

Chapters 18-25

Chapters 18 and 19

Chapter 18 Question: What did the family have for breakfast?
My Answer: The family had flapjacks for breakfast.

Chapter 19 Question:What gift did the stranger give his grandmother that was a

“piece of the puzzle”? Explain.

My Answer: The stranger gave his grandmother a music box and his grandmother

remembered the mother of the family that didn’t grow old she had a music box.

Chapters 20 and 21

Chapter 20 Question: What huge problem do the Tucks have?
My Answer: The huge problem the Tucks have is keeping the
stranger alive.

Chapter 21 Question: What happened to the stranger?
My Answer: The stranger died.

Chapters 22 and 23

Chapter 22 Question: What present did Jesse give to Winnie?
My Answer: The present that Jesse gave to Winnie was a bottle
of water from the spring.

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

period?

My Answer: The weather so difficult to bear during this time period because it is really

hot.

Chapters 24 and 25

Chapter 24 Question: What sound symbolized the exit of the Tucks?
My Answer: The exit of the Tucks was symbolized by the noise of
the music box fading.

Chapter 25 Question: Explain how the toad is in danger
My Answer: the toad is in danger because a dog is trying to hurt the
toad.

Epilogue

What does the reader learn from the epilogue in this novel? Do
you think the epilogue was necessary? Yes, the epilogue was
necessary because you learn that the toad is still alive, and that
Winnie died and didn’t drink the water.

Pg 94 “I was growing up my The stranger is telling a
grandmother told me stories” story about when he is
growing up and telling
how he learned about
the Tucks

Pg 105 “Mae Tuck If Mae was hanged
must not be hanged everyone would figure
out that she couldn’t
die

Pg 107 “The Tucks Winnie keeps telling
were good gentle everyone that the
people.” Tucks were good to her

Pg 109 “Winnie had killed a Winnie felt bad that
wasp once in fear and anger she killed the wasp and
just in time to spare herself a wonders if Mae feels
stinging.” the same

Pg 113 “What could Winnie wants to help
she do to set Mae but doesn't know how
free?” to help

Pg 119 “When she Winnie wonders if she
was seventeen would would drink the water
she?” when she was
seventeen

Summarize

Chapters 18-25

● The family was having breakfast and the stranger knocked on
the door and asked to come in.

● The stranger came into the house and started talking about
selling the water and the Tucks told him he was out of his
mind and the stranger tried to take Winnie with him and Mae
shot the stranger and then the constable shows up

● And the constable told the Tucks to keep the stranger and
took Winnie and Mae with him and takes Winnie home and
Mae to the jailhouse

● The next day Winnie is outside and meets Jesse. Jesse Tells
Winnie the plan to set Mae free and Winnie decides to help
and they agreed to meet at midnight. And before Jesse
leaves he give a bottle of water from the spring and tells her
to drink the water when she is seventeen

● At midnight Winnie swaps places with Mae in the jail and the
Tucks leave Treegap

● The constable doesn't find out until morning and can’t do
anything to Winnie because she is a kid and Winnie goes
home. While Winnie is in her garden she pours the water
from Jesse on the toad to save it from a dog

Winnie is a ten year old
girl who lives with her
family but feels lonely
and trapped because
they don’t let her past the
gate of her house.

Jesse is a seventeen year
old boy who likes to explore
and hopes to have a family.
And is handsome.

Miles thinks very deeply,
is honest, nostalgic,and
kind

Angus is unhappy, kind,
worries about people
finding the spring.

Mae is kind,
disorganized,
hopeful, loving.

The stranger is mysterious,
doesn't talk, impatient,
hostile.

Mrs.Tuck is Mrs.Foster is
messy clean and
orderly

They both love their families



Places: The Tucks house, the Fosters house, the
woods
Time period: 1880

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

Type: character vs character
Conflict: Mae vs stranger

The tone is interested and passionate

The wheel symbolizes the cycle of life

The theme is
things sometimes aren't what they seem to be

the constable hears their escape, they’re doomed!

Mae get so mad at The Man in the Yellow The constable comes into the jail
Suit that she hits him over the head with cell to find Winnie has taken
the gun and kills him. Mae’s place and helped her
escape.

Winnie sneaks off into the forest and Winnie sees a dog wanting
discovers a boy drinking from a small to attack the toad so she
stream. Then his family kidnaps her. rescues him and pours the
fountain water on him.
Winnie’s family controls her. They won’t let her try
anything risky to make a difference in the world like she
wants to.

The Man in the Yellow Suit tells Winnie’s
parents that if they don’t give him what he
wants he won’t tell them where their
daughter is.

A girl names Winnie Winnie lives in a forest area The Tuck family continues to stay young while
Foster lives with her that her family owns near Winnie ages and dies. A fire burns down the woods
family by a wood they the town of Treegap. It’s in and covers the secret forever. The toad lives forever
own that no one goes the past with wagons because of the water from Winnie.
into. At its center is a instead of cars.
special fountain.

Tuck
Everlasting

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Makes me wonder what is really
going on in the woods.

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It makes me think that Miles is a
very sad man that misses his
family

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Winnie is doubting the Tucks’
story

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