Megan Almashy - 20-21 Tuck Everlasting Interactive Notebook - 3438690

Tuck

Everlasting

Megan’s
Reading Response

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Chapters 1-8

Prologue

Question:
My Answer: The month of August was described as the very top
of the summer like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it
pauses. Also the first week of August is motionless and hot. It is
curiously silent too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons,
and sunsets smeared with too much color.

Question:
My Answer: The purpose of Mae Tuck’s trip is that Mae Tuck is
going out on her horse for the wood at the edge of the village of
Treegap. She goes there every ten years to meet her two sons
Miles, and Jesse.

Chapters 1 and 2

Chapter 1 Question:
My Answer: No one ever goes in the woods because the woods
had a sleeping, otherworld appearance that made you want to
speak in whispers and it seems suspicious and forbidden.

Chapter 2 Question:
My Answer: Mae is so excited because today she gets to go
meet her boys Jesse and Miles finally because she has not seen
them in a decade or ten years.

Chapters 3 and 4

Chapter 3 Question:
My Answer: Winnie is frustrated because she is an only child
and her parents only watch her, but if she had a sibling she
wouldn’t have to be watched all the time.

Chapter 4 Question:
My Answer: The stranger didn't answer the questions, “We
haven’t met, that I can recall. Who are you? Who are you
looking for?”

Chapters 5 and 6

Chapter 5 Question:
My Answer: Winnie decided not to run away because she was
scared to run away by herself because the world is dangerous.

Chapter 6 Question:
My Answer: Winnie reacts to the kidnapping by not saying
anything just waiting.

Chapters 7 and 8

Chapter 7 Question:

My Answer: When the Tucks came to Treegap for the first time
everyone drank except for the cat. On page 38 it says “
Everyone took a drink , even the horse. No, said Mae, the cat
didn’t drink. That’s important.” Then it says that the cat died
because of age and Mae sayes the never never aged.

Chapter 8 Question:
My Answer: I think Winnie doesn’t believe in the Tucks story
because it says “Winnie did not believe in fairy tales.” Therefore
I think Winnie does not believe in the Tucks story.

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Page Number: 32 When Winnie gets
kidnapped she doesn’t
Quote: “Winnie was say anything she just
speechless. The clung to the goes with what they are
saddle and gave himself up doing. You would think
the the astonishing fact that, that she would scream
though her heart was and yell but she just lets
pounding and her back bone them kidnap her without
felt like a pipe full of cold doing anything.
running water, her head was
fiercely calm.”

Page: 42 When the author said this
it made it seem as if
Quote: “Winnie did not believe Winnie did not believe in
in fairytales” the Tuck’s story about the
spring because when she
said this was right after the
Tucks told Winnie. But after
Angus actually talked with
Winnie about how they are
stuck and can’t age then she
believed it.

Page: 20 Winnie’s grandmother
has a memory moment
Quote: “That's it! That's the elf about when she heard
music i told you about. Why, the elfes when she was
it's been ages since i heard it younger and what they
last.” meant to her, this also
happened when they
meant the stranger,so
she was kinda suspicious
about the stranger later
on.

Page: 15 The tough question for
Winnie is does she
Quote: “Do you know they’ve want to run away
hardly ever let me out of this even though there is
yard all by myself? I’ll never be dangerous people in
able to do anything important the world.
if I stay in here like this. I
expect I’d run away.”

Page: 17 The author is adding
all these details about
Quote: “He was remarkably tall and the stranger because
narrow, this stranger standing she wants us to
there. His long chin faded off into a know his looks
thin, apologetic beard, but his suit because they can
was a january yellow that seemed sometimes symbole
to glow a little in the fading light. A his appearance to
black hat dangled from one hand, others.
and as Winnie came toward him,he
passed the other though his dry,
gray hair, settling it smoothly”

Page: 6

Quote: On the left stood the
first house, a square and solid
cottage with a tough-me-not
apperance, surronded by grass
cut painfully to the quick and
enclosed by a capable iron
fence some four feet high
which clearly said

Summarize
Chapters 1-8

In chapters 1-8 of Tuck Everlasting, it describes how Winnie Foster meets
the Tucks. In chapter 1, 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. Chapter 2 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. Chapter 3 is mostly about how Winnie
has a conversation with a toad. She talks about how hard her life is and she
decides to run away. Then in chapter 4 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. Chapter 5 is about how Winnie decides not to run
away. In chapter 6 Winnie goes into the woods and gets kidnapped and
doesn’t scream and yell, she just goes with what they are doing. Chapter 7
they talk about how everyone drank from the spring except for the cat but
the cat aged and died but everyone else stayed the same age. Chapter 8
starts off by saying that Winnie didn’t believe in fairy tale and that the
Tucks are relieved that they finally told someone. Then the next day the
Tucks return Winnie to her house. That is what happening in chapters 1-8.



Chapters 9-17

Chapters 9 and 10

Chapter 9 Question:

My Answer: The Tucks made the trip easier for Winnie by
carrying her, letting her use the blue straw hat, and letting her
ride the horse instead of walking. It states this one page 46
“Miles carried her some of the way. The tops …. Mae who had
finally insisted that she wear the blue straw hat.”

Chapter 10 Question:

My Answer: The differences between the Tuck’s house and
Winnie’s house is that the Tuck’s house is very old, mess, and
rustic vs Winnie’s house that is clean and modern. It says that
on page

Chapters 11 and 12

Chapter 11 Question:

My Answer: At the Tucks house they are not even using a table and sitting

on the floor and they don’t talk and only eating, but at the Foster’s house
they use napkins ,have a conversation ,and are very clean. I saw a reference
on page 56 it says “ But there seemed to be no rules. Jesse sat on the floor
and used the seat of a chair as a table, but the others held their plates in
their laps. There were no napkins. It was all right, then, to lick the maple
syrup from your fingers. Winnie was never allowed to do such a thing at
home,...”

Chapter 12 Question:

My Answer: Tuck means that everything will keep on going but
you will just be stuck forever. Like the water how it just keeps
going. Here is where i found this answer “It’s like a wheel,
Winnie . Everything’s a wheel, turning and turning, never
stopping.”

Chapters 13 and 14

Chapter 13 Question:
My Answer: The stranger told the Fosters were their little girl
went. It told me when i read “I have happy news for for. I know
where they’ve taken your little girl.

Chapter 14 Question:
My Answer: Their opinions are different because when Tuck is
worrying about how someone stole their horse and think that it
might be someone who is looking for Winnie, Mae is just telling
him that it is okay. Here is some evidence from the text, “But the
question is, was it just some ordinary thief, or was it someone
that had some special reason? … Hush now, Tuck.”

Chapters 15-17

Chapter 15 Question:

My Answer: The fosters did not give the man in the yellow suit
the wood because he did not think it was a good deal because
he said, “There now! Your terrible ordeal is as good as over,
isn’t it?”

Chapter 16 Question:

My Answer: I think the stranger ditched the constable because
he is going to talk with the Tucks because he says “So I’ll go go
on ahead, and wait outside the house till you get there.” My
reason that I think that he will talk with the Tucks because the
Tucks will most likely see him and it could be an hour that he
will wait there.

Chapter 17 Question:

My Answer: When Miles catches the fish Winnie tells him to put it back and

Miles was going to protest against her but just does it anyways. It says that on
page 87 “Put it back right away. Miles started to protest then looking at her face,
he picked up” and put it in the water. “ All right Winnie, he said” At the end Miles
also said “People got to be meat-eaters sometimes, though. It’s the natural way.
And that means leilling things. I know, said Winnie weekly. But still. Yes said Miles.
I know” This means that Miles and Winnie want to not kill it but sometimes there
can’t be a bunch,

Page:61-64 Angus is telling Winnie this
because she is so young that
Quote: “Know what that is, all around us, she would want to drink the
Winnie? said Tuck, his voice low. Life. spring and live forever but
Moving, growing, changing, never the same it's not a positive thing to
two minutes later. … If we didn't move it out live forever because from
yourself, it would stay here forever, trying someone who has to live
trying to lose, but stuck. Thats what us forever it's just boring and
Tucks are, Winnie. Stuck so’s we can’t move you are just there nothing
on. ... But dying is part of the wheel, right special.
there next to being born. … Forever? The
wheel would keep on going round, the water
rolling to the ocean, but people would’ve
turned into nothing bu rocks by the side of
the road.”

Page: 56 The foster’s house is very nice
and very clean and her parents
Quote: “Winnie had never has are very protective and
a meal that way before and organised. If they didn't have
she watched the carefully at, rules they probo wouldn't be like
first to see what rules there that and Winnie wouldn't be so
might be that he did not know surprised about it. Also when
about. But there seemed to be Winnie Is realizing this she even
no rules. … Winnie was never said she was never allowed to do
allowed to do such a thing at it at her house. Like as if her
home,” parents are a little strict about
their house and how put
together it is.

Page: 50-51 Winnie was so shocked
because of this house becase
Quote: “the cottage where she everything she new was
lived was always squeaky clean, always to pretty and safe, so
mopped and swept and scoured she was so unprepared for
into limp submission. … So she what she saw at that house.
was so unprepared for the When Winnie realizes just
homely little house beside the the differences in the house
pond, unprepared for the gentle reminds her and tells her
eddies of dust, the silver how protected and safe she
cobwebs, the mouse who lived- was.
and only three rooms.”

Page: Chapter 14 When almost all of
the Tucks come down
Quote: “Then just as she was to say good night to
drifting into sleep, she heard Winnie you can see
soft footsteps and Mae was the different
beside her. … Tuck came,too, a perspectives of every
little later, to peer down at her people and their
anxiously. … There was a conversations with
creaking on the loft stairs and Winnie.
Jesse was looking down at
her, very beautiful and eager The contrast and
in the faint blue moonlight.” contradiction is when
Miles isn’t tell that
Page: 87 they have to kill the
fish and that he is just
Quote: “The hook was caught in it’s doing what Winnie is
saying and letting it
upper lip, and Winnie suddenly live instead of having it
wanted to weep. Put it back, Miles, for breakfast.
she said, her voice dry and harsh.
Put it back right away.Miles started
to protest, and then,looking at her
face, he picked up the trout and
gently worked the barbed hook free.
All right,Winnie , he said. He dropped
the fish over the edge of the boat.”

Page: 76-77 The constable is
questioning the
Quote: “ How come you’re so Stranger becuase he
deep in it? asked the constable didnt report them
suspiciously. Maybe youre in right away and knows
cahoots with the kidnappers, so much about it that
how do i know? You should the constable is
have reported it right off, almost questioning
when you saw her get him.
snached.”

Summarize
Chapters 9-17

In chapter 9 the tucks bring Winnie back to their house and talks about the trip

to their house. Chapter 10 is mostly about how Winnie is seeing the Tucks
house and realizing the differences between their house and her house. The
11th chapter is when they are at dinner Winnie realizes they have no rules and
tells them she wants to go home. Also, she tells them about the guy with a
yellow suit. In chapter 12 Tuck takes Winnie on a ride on the pond and tells her
why things should die. The boys also realizes the horse is missing. Chapter 13
is when the stranger takes the Tuck’s horse to get to the Fosters house and
tells Winnie's grandma that he has good news about Winnie. In the 14th
chapter, the Tucks say that they are going to look for the horse tomorrow and
Winnie can’t go to sleep. Everyone in the Tucks family comes down to say
good night to Winnie. When Jesse comes down to say goodnight he talks
about how if WInnie does drink from the spring the could get married and that
the rest of the Tuck don’t know how to spend their time. Chapter nine is when
the Stranger talks to the Fosters about Winnie but the Fosters don’t like the
deal that the Stager proposed. Which was if he told them where Winnie was
that her could have the woods. In chapter 16 the constable says that maybe
the man in the yellow suit is working with the kidnappers and the man in the
yellow suit explains the route and how far the distances is then the man in the
yellow suit starts going to the Tuck’s house before the constable. The 17th
chapter is when Miles takes Winnie to catch some fish for breakfast and Winnie
doesn’t want to eat the fish that Miles caught because she doesn’t want to kill
it.

Chapters 18-25

Chapters 18 and 19

Chapter 18 Question:

My Answer: The situational irony at the end of the chapter is
when the man in the yellow suit comes knocking at the Tuck’s
door when the were eating breakfast. The wouldn’t have
expected it because in the chapter Mae said, “We ain't never
had callers in all the years we been here.”

Chapter 19 Question:

My Answer: The stranger said that he was going to sell the
spring and avertis it but h would make Winnie drink from it for
is advertisement and said that it would be better if Winnie drink
from it because kids are better for advertising. Then Mae shot
the guy with the yellow suit because of that and killed him.
“Once Winifred drinks some of the water, she’ll do just as well
for my demonstrations… Not Winnie!... With a dull cracking
sound, the stock of the shotgun smashed into the back of his
skull.”

Chapters 20 and 21

Chapter 20 Question:
My Answer: If the stranger dies then Mae will be sentenced to
death and be hung. “If this feller dies, you’ll get the gallows…
The gallows? He whispered. Hanging?”

Chapter 21 Question:
My Answer: The Tucks weren’t charged with the kidnapping
because Winn said she wanted to go with the and that they
didn’t kidnap her. On page 102 Winnie said, “They didn’t kidnap
me,” she said. “I came because i wanted to.”... “That's right,”
said Winnie unflinchingly. “They’re my friends.” This shows that
Winnie said she wanted to go and that the Tucks didn’t kidnap
her.

Chapters 22 and 23

Chapter 22 Question:
My Answer: Jesse gave Winnie a bottle of water from the spring
so that when Winnie is seventeen she can drink out of the water
so that they could stay together. One page 114 Jesse says
“here’s a bottle of water from the spring. You keep it. And then,
no matter what where you ar , when you’re seventeen.”

Chapter 23 Question:

My Answer: The weather is so difficult in this time period
because they couldn’t know on their weather app to see if it was
going to rain or not you would have to look or go outside to see
what the weather would be like.

Chapters 24 and 25

Chapter 24 Question:

My Answer: The weather shows where the climax is and where the falling

action is because when they are trying to get Mae out and open the window it is
storming then when the Tucks leave and Winnie is in the sell like its still storming
but she is not so tense about it. When they are trying to get the window open the
book says, “Why doesn’t he…” Then-a flash of lightning and, soon after, a crack of
thunder.” Then later on when Winnie is in the sell it says, “Rain blew into her face,
but at the next flash of lightning, looking down, she saw that the yard was empty.
And before the thunder followed, in a pause while wind and rain held back for one
brief moment,” This shows that everything almost stopped when she was in the
sell.

Chapter 25 Question:
My Answer: The toad is in danger because the dog is barking at
the toad acting like he want to eat him.

Epilogue

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

The reader learns that Winnie didn’t drink any of the water and
that she died when she was 78. Also that her house and the
woods are no longer there. All of Treegap has changed a lot
from when there were no cars to buildings and restaurants etc. I
think the epilogue was very necessary because it shows how
the woods is no longer there and that Winnie died instead of
drinking the water from the spring.

Page:100 This was so surprising
to me that Mae would
Quote: “Once Winifred drinks some of kill someone because
Mae was so motherly
the water she'll do just as well for my and kind that no one
demonstration. … Not Winnie! She said would think she would
between clenched teeth. You ain't going be the one to kill
to do a thing like that to Winnie. And someone.
you ain't going to give out the secret
Her strong arms swung a the shotgun
round her head, like a wheel. The man in
the yellow suit jerked away but it was
too late. With a dull cracking sound the
stock of the shotgun smashed into the
back of his skull. He dropped like a tree,”

Page:118-119 Winnie is thinking
about if she wants to
Quote: “What would happen in do it or not because
the morning, when the because if she does she
constable found heer in the doesn’t know if her
cell and had to bring her home parents are going to
for the second time? What trust her ever again so
would they say? Would they she has to make a
ever trust her again? really tough decision.

Page:126 The unanswered
question for me is
Quote: “The Tucks-her darling that they never said if
Tucks-were gone.” they ever came back
and thanked her for
what she did until the
epilogue where they
saw her grave years
later.

Page: 102 The contrast and
contradiction is that
Quote: “You kidnapped that child. Winnie is saying she
wanted to come
Winnie let go of Tucks waist and instead of admitting
turned around. Her trembling had that they actually
stopped. They didn't kidnapped kidnapped her.
me,she said. I came because I
wanted to. Behind, her Tuck drew his
breath in sharply. You wanted to?
Echoed the constable, his eyes wide
with disbelief. You wanted to? That's
right, said Winnie unflinchingly.
They’re my friends.”

Page: 103 If the Stranger dies
then when Mae goes
Quote: “If this feller dies, you’ll to the gallows every
get the gallows, that's what one with know that
you’ll get, if that's what you she can’t die so the
mean by make out.” unanswered question
is that they have to
Page: 15, 118, 119 figure out a way to get
how of the jail house
Quote: “What would happen in because the gallows.

the morning, when the constable Through out the entier
found heer in the cell and had to novel Winnie is very
bring her home for the second indesisive about her
time? What would they say? disions and always
Would they ever trust her questioning anything
again?” … “Do you know they’ve she does.
hardly ever let me out of this
yard all by myself? I’ll never be
able to do anything important if
I stay in here like this. I expect I’d
run away.”

Summarize

Chapters 18-25

In chapter 18, Winnie and Miles came in from fishing, and since they
didn’t catch any fish they had flapjacks for breakfast again. When the
Tucks were eating breakfast they heard a knock on the door and it was
the Stranger. Chapter 19 is when the Stranger threatened to take away
the spring water and sell it and Mae hit over the head with their old
shotgun and killed him. In chapter 20 the constable arrested Mae and took
Winnie home. The Tucks are concerned because they know if Mae goes
to the gallows everyone will know that she can’t die. In chapter 21 Winnie
arrived home safely. She knows the needs to help Mae but she doesn’t
know how to. In chapter 22 Jesse came to the Foster and explains to
Winnie their plan about how their are going to help Mae. Also Jesse gives
Winnie a bottle of water from the spring so she can drink when she is
seventeen. In chapter 23 Winnie is waiting until midnight thinking about
the plan and if she will regret doing it. Winnie fell asleep when she woke
up she was right on time to exceed her plan. In chapter 24 Miles struggled
to get the window open, when he did Mae and Winnie traded places in the
jailhouse and the Tucks left for good. In chapter 25 the constable realizes
that Mae and Winnie switched places and the constable takes Winnie
back to her house. Winnie poured the bottle of spring water on the road
because he is being cheated so he could live forever.

Winnie is very outgoing
and brave. She hopes to
run away with Jesse
when she is older. Winnie
Foster has been so
supervised for almost 11
years so she really wants
to leave and do
something different.
Winnie fears not knowing
what the future holds.

Jesse’s hopes for the
future is that when
Winnie is 17 she can drink
the water from the spring
and they can get married
and have kids together.
Jesse also is not afraid of
much because he can live
forever and doesn't see the
problem about living
forever. 4 words that
describe Jesse is fearless,
hopeful, determined, and
optimistic. Jesse was born
in 1776, he lives in Treegap,
and his parents are Mae
Tuck and Angus Tuck.

Miles loves fishing and
hates living forever.
Miles’s biggest fear is for
anyone finding out about
the spring and that you
can live forever if you
drink it. His occupation is
carpending and his
parents are Mae and
Angus Tuck.

Angus hopes that no one
will find out about the
spring and why people can't
live forever. He hates when
people threatens his loved
ones and that he has to live
forever.

Mae Tucks would
hate is if anything
happened to her
family and Winnie.
Mae could be
described as loving,
protective, and
caring. She doesn't
want anyone to
know about the
spring because
people don't need to
live forever and she
knows why. Mae
hopes that she will
eventually die and
the curse will go
away.

The strangers hopes for the
future was that he could sell
the spring for money and
own the wood. The stranger
got hit in the head by Mae
Tuck and is now dead. The
stranger is very suspicious,
selfish, mysterious and cruel.
The stranger also doesn't
like the Tucks because killed
him and kidnapped Winnie.

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: The Tucks house was very messy and unorganized, The

Foster´s house was very clean and very touch me not like you can
mess anything up, The Woods feel very mysterious and almost
respect and pretty

Time period: Late 1800ś

Type: Third person omniscient

How do you know? I know the thoughts and
feelings of all the major characters.

Type: Internal Conflict

Conflict: Winnie is having trouble deciding
where she belongs and how she should deal
with it

Throughout the novel the tone was mostly
somber, however, at the climax it became more
tense and shocking because Mae killed the
Stranger.

The Wheel symbolizes the circle/cycle of life. It
also symbolizes time and aging of the
character’s lives.

Action have consequences.

Mae get so mad at The Man in the Yellow
Suit that she hits him over the head with
the gun and kills him.

The Man in the Yellow Suit tells Winnie’s The constable comes into the jail
parents that if they don’t give him what he cell to find Winnie has taken
wants he won’t tell them where their Mae’s place and helped her
daughter is. 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.

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!

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

Place your page image over There is a contrast and
this box so it is covered up! contradiction on page
32 this is a CC because,
Winnie is not talking
while she was getting
kidnapped and just
letting it happen, but
you would think she
would scream and tell
someone that was close
instead.

Tuck Everlasting Page

Place your page image over Angus Tuck is telling Winnie
this box so it is covered up! Foster about the spring in the
wood because of Winn would
drink that water she would get
stuck in the world like he is.
Angus is really telling her why
people should die and why it is
not good to live, therefore that
is a words of the wiser.
At the same time Winnie is have
a Aha Moment because she is
realizing that it is true that if
you drink they spring you will
never die on she changed her
mind about if she wants to live
forever or not.

Tuck Everlasting Page

Place your page image over There is a huge contrast and
this box so it is covered up! contradiction when Mae Tuck
kills the stranger. In the
beginning Mae was very nice
and motherly and then she just
killed the Stranger when he
threatens to sell the spring
water. I would never have
thought that Mae would kill
anyone when she used to be so
nice. It almost make you think of
Mae is a different way now.
That was very surprising to me.