Kellan Roddy - 20-21 Tuck Everlasting Interactive Notebook - 3438698

Tuck

Everlasting

kellan
Reading Response

Journal



Chapters 1-8

Prologue

Question: What is the purpose of the stranger’s trip?
My Answer: The purpose of the stranger’s trip is to find someone he is missing.

Question:According to the narrator, how do people act during this month?
My Answer:According to the narrator, people acted strange by doing weird

stuff at the same day of three people doing strange stuff during the month of
august.

Chapters 1 and 2

Chapter 1 Question:explain why no one ever goes into the woods.
My Answer: no one ever goes into the woods because it has a sleeping feeling to it.

Chapter 2 Question:Explain why Mae is so excited.
My Answer: Mae is so excited because her sons are coming and
they see each other in 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:Winnie was referring to running away because she wanted to be free.

Chapter 4 Question:What did the stranger ask Winnie?
My Answer:he stranger asked Winnie if she knows everyone.

Chapters 5 and 6

Chapter 5 Question:What did Jesse want to stop Winnie from doing?
My Answer: Jesse wanted winnie to not drink the water.

Chapter 6 Question:Jesse asked Winnie to help them at the end of the chapter. Why

did he ask for her help?

My Answer: Jesse asked Winnie to help them so winnie would not tell anyone

Chapters 7 and 8

Chapter 7 Question:How did the tree look when they came back after 20 years?
My Answer:the tree looked the same when they came back.

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 winnie was going to run

away.

Page number 15 Why does she want to
I expect i better run away. run away when
everyone is nice to her.

Page 29 Why does she want to
drink it.
Well i still don't see
why not.

Page 28 What will have

Oh that no-no it's not happened if winnie
he said quickly you drink from the water.

mustn't drink from that.

Page 37 Why would the tucks
tell winnie the story?
It was the strangest story
winnie had ever heard.

Page 44 How will they affect
the story?
And winnie laughing at
him lost the last of her
alarm. They were
friends , her friends.

Page 45 Why is the man in the
yellow suit following
Not one of them them?
noticed that the
man...in the yellow
suit...and heard the
story.

Summarize
Chapters 1-8

In chapters 1-8 of Tuck Everlasting, it describes how Winnie Foster meets the
Tucks.In the beginning of the book 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.meanwhile Tucks are getting excited to see
their sons, jessie and miles, 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.Next Winnie has a conversation with a toad. She talks about how hard her life is
and she decides to run away.After that,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.Next Winnie runs
away into the woods and meets a cute boy named jesse who is drinking from a
spring. Winnie wants to take a drink but jessie said she shouldn't Not long later May
and miles arrived at the spring and take winnie off in order to keep her from drinking
the water next The tucks tell winnie their story of drinking from the spring and never
ageing again Last but not least Winnie willingly goes with the tucks back to their
house. They are not aware that the stranger is also watching.



Chapters 9-17

Chapters 9 and 10

Chapter 9 Question:What did Miles and Jesse do as soon as they got home?
My Answer:Miles and Jesse go and disappear in the trees.

Chapter 10 Question:Which house do you think Winnie prefers? Explain.
My Answer: i think Winnie prefers the tucks house because there is no rules.

Chapters 11 and 12

Chapter 11 Question:What has to happen in order for Winnie to go home?
My Answer:Winnie has to understand why it is not good to be immortal.

Chapter 12 Question:What does Tuck say about immortality?
My Answer:Tuck said it is not a gift to be immortal it is a curse.

Chapters 13 and 14

Chapter 13 Question:Why do you suppose the stranger took the horse?
My Answer:i think the stranger took the horse so that he can trap the tucks. because in

chapter 4 he said he was looking for a family.

Chapter 14 Question:What is ironic about Winnie missing her home?
My Answer:it is ironic about Winnie missing her home because she was planning to run

away.

Chapters 15-17

Chapter 15 Question:Describe the stranger’s plan.
My Answer:the stranger’s plan is to get winnie and bring her back so he can get the wood and live

imortal

Chapter 16 Question:Why is the stranger being so “closed mouthed”? Explain.
My Answer:the stranger being so closed mouthed because he does not want to say why he got the

wood

Chapter 17 Question:Explain what happened when Miles caught the fish.
My Answer:when Miles caught the fish winnie said to put it back. I think winnie wants to keep it alive

cause she might not like things dying

Page 56 Why only that rule?

“It was clear to winnie that
there was at least one rule
as long as there was food to
eat there was no
conversation”

Page 58 Why is tuck acting so
strange?
Tuck said “i got a
feeling there ain't a
whole lot of time”
...“You worried tuck?
What's got you?”

Page 61 How will this affect
winnie?
“Know what that is, all
around us winnie?
Tuck said, his low
voice. Life moving,
growing, changing
never looking the
same two minutes
together”...

Page 70 Will mae take winnie
again to have her as a
“I guess we don't know how child?
to do with visitors but still and
all its a good feeling, you
being here with us. I wish
you was...ours.”

Page 71 Will winnie drink the
water?
Jesse said “wait till
you’re seventeen,
same age as me…
then you could go and
drink some” of the
water.

Page 87 Why does winnie not
want to catch a fish?
Miles and winnie were
fishing and winnie said
“put it back miles, she
said, her voice dry and
harsh. put it back right
away.”

Summarize
Chapters 9-17

In chapters, 9-17 Winnie is riding with the tucks to their
home. When they got home Mae and Winnie went to meet
Angus tuck. Next Mae was touring the house for Winnie
witch the house was messy but Winnie liked the house. no
too long later Winnie was eating with the tucks and then
after dinner Angus said wanted to talk to Winnie on a
rowboat. Later Angus takes Winnie out on a ride on the
rowboat and talks to her about why it is so bad to be
mmortal and then miles yells the horse is stolen. not long
ater the stranger goes to the fosters and says he knows
where Winnie is. next, they are going to bed witch not too
ong later both Mae and Angus come at different times and
talks to her about her being her child then Jesse came and
talked to her about she should become immortal at 17. nex
the stranger makes a deal with the fosters that he will get
Winnie and he gets the wood. The next day the stranger is
with someone traveling to the tucks house to get Winnie.
Winnie went out fishing with miles and when he caught a
fish she said to put it back.

Chapters 18-25

Chapters 18 and 19

Chapter 18 Question:Explain the lie Miles told for Winnie.
My Answer:Miles told a lie for winnie because she did not want to catch a fish. And if he

said that she said to put the fish back they would talk about it.

Chapter 19 Question:Explain how the Tucks and the stranger knew the same person.
My Answer:the Tucks and the stranger knew the same person because they were giving

evidence of… oldest of two boys who did not change for twenty years.

Chapters 20 and 21

Chapter 20 Question:What huge problem do the Tucks have?
My Answer: the Tucks have a problem because if the stranger dies the mae will get

hanged and cant die. Also if the stranger lives he will take winnie and make her drink the
water.

Chapter 21 Question:Why weren’t the Tucks charged with kidnapping? Explain.
My Answer: the Tucks weren’t charged with kidnapping because winnie had said she

wanted to go over there.

Chapters 22 and 23

Chapter 22 Question:What did Winnie learn about toads in this chapter?
My Answer:Winnie learned that toads don't drink water it soaks up like a sponge.

Chapter 23 Question:Explain why Winnie is struggling with her conscience.
My Answer:Winnie is struggling with her conscience because if she goes to the jail and

gets taken back home what will her parents and grandma do?

Chapters 24 and 25

Chapter 24 Question:What sound symbolized the exit of the Tucks?
My Answer:the sound symbolized how winnie met the tucks.

Chapter 25 Question:How much time How much time has gone by since that fateful

night?

My Answer: two weeks has gone by since that fateful night.

Epilogue

What does the reader learn from the epilogue in this novel? Do
you think the epilogue was necessary? That the tucks went
back to find winnie but they find her grave. I think the epilogue
was necessary because it shows that the tucks were nice and
tried to go back to winnie, and that winnie was smart and did
not drink the water.

Page 100 Why did mae shot the
stranger?
Mae had “the shotgun
smashed into the back of his
skull”

Page 102 Why did she defend
the tucks? they did
“They didn't kidnap me kidnap her.
she said. I came
because i wanted to”.

Page 107 Why does her
grandmother keep on
Her grandmother said saying “the elves”?
“it was the elves we
heard them. They
must have bewitched
her”

Page 115 Why is she wanting to
do it? she can die from
Winnie said “i want to help i it.
have to help”.

Page 107 Will winnie make sure
he doesn't get the
“I suppose the wood wood?
will be ours again if
the man… dies.”

Page 126 Why does mae keep
on playing the music
“She thought she box?
heard, fading in the
distance, the tinkling
little melody of the
music box”

Summarize

Chapters 18-25

In chapter 18 miles did not say that winnie did not want to
catch the fish and at the end of the chapter the stranger
came to there door. Next the stranger was talking to the
tucks and took winnie, but he could not get far cause mae
shot him, but just then the constable saw her kill the
stranger.after that the constable said if he died mae will get
hanged, but if the stranger lives she wont get hanged.
When she got home her mom, dad, and grandma were
waiting and she realized that the stranger had to die or else
he would sell the spring. The next day winnie went outside
and found jesse outside form the fence and talked to her
about breaking mae out because the stranger died and she
would disguise herself as mae to buy time for the tucks to
escape that night she was questioning if she should do it or
not. At midnight she met miles jesse and tuck and went to
the jailhouse, when they were done getting mae out winnie
went in. was getting taken back by the constable and she
couldn't leave her fence without one of her parents or
grandma

Winnie loves the tucks
and she hates being not
allowed to leave her
house and yard. Winnie
is courageous, rich and
not respected. Winnies
fear is that she will never
leave her house/yard.
She hopes she will get
freedom sometime.

Jesse is old, polite, smart
and caring. He loves winnie
and he hates the stranger.
He fears that winnie will not
drink the water when she is
17. He hopes that winnie
will drink the water when
shes 17 and go with him.

Miles is old, courageous
tall, polite, smart, caring
and respected. he loves
his family and fishing. He
hates living forever and
the stranger. He fears
that everyone will know
about the spring. He
hopes he will see his
family again.

Angus tuck is a smart, kind
man. he is caring for the
people he loves he lives in
a place called treegap. He
is not to lazy but he is also
not to energetic. He is
unpopular and no one
knows him. He fears that
people will find out about
the spring.

Mae is old, polite,
unpopular, poor, and
caring. She loves
her family and
winnie. She hates
living forever and the
stranger. Her fear is
that everyone
drinking from the
spring. She hopes
stop living forever.

The stranger is middle age,
tall, rude,unpopular, and
selfish. He loves money and
the spring. He hates the
tucks. His fear is that he will
get caught. He hopes that he
can sell water and get rich.

Mrs tuck gives Mrs foster is
what winnie overprotective
wants

They both care about winnie



Places: it is at fosters house, most likely very
clan or neat. And the tucks
Time period: the time period

Type:third person omniscient
How do you know? I know because i know the
thoughts and feelings of all the major characters

Type: the conflict is when mae shoots the
stranger

Conflict:when mae shoots the stranger

Throughout the novel the tone was mostly
ambivalent, however at the climax it became
more incredulous

The wheel symbolize Life and death because
tuck was talking to winnie why it's not good to
live forever.

The theme is that some stuff is not always the
best thing.

Miles dismantles the jail cell window and helps
Mae escape. Winnie is there to provide support. If
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.
The Man in the Yellow Suit tells Winnie’s
parents that if they don’t give him what he Winnie sees a dog wanting
wants he won’t tell them where their to attack the toad so she
daughter is. rescues him and pours the
fountain water on him.
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 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

Booksnaps

Tuck Everlasting Page

How will this info effect
winnie? Will it help her?

I think it's a ww
because tuck was
telling her about
why it's bad to be
immortal

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Tuck Everlasting Page

Why does mae keep on playing
the music box? Does it have a
meaning?

I think it's a AA
because how
winnie first met the
tucks she heard
the music box.

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Tuck Everlasting Page

Why is winnie going to go? she
can get in so much trouble, or
go to jail.

I think this is a cc
because winnie all
the time has been
a innocent child.

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