Lola Woodcock - 20-21 Tuck Online Notebook (Q2 Grade) - 9578388

Tuck

Everlasting

Lola Woodcock

Reading Response
Journal



Chapters 1-8

Prologue

Question: Summarize how the month of august is described.
My Answer: The narrator describes August there as the dog
days that make people feel like doing something that they will
regret.

Question: What is the purpose of the strangers trip?
My Answer: To meet somebody a family that I predict will be the
Tucks.

Chapters 1 and 2

Chapter 1 Question: Explain why no one ever goes in the
woods.
My Answer: Because the path doesn't go through the woods
and it is private property.

Chapter 2 Question: Explain why Mae is so excited.
My Answer: Mae tuck is excited Because she gets to visit her
sons after ten years.

Chapters 3 and 4

Chapter 3 Question: Why did winnie have to go in her house?
My Answer : because her lunch was ready and her mom thought
she may get a heat stroke out there.

Chapter 4 Question: What interrupted the conversation and how
did Granny describe it?
My Answer : The music was most likely music from Mae tucks
music box but her grandma thought it was elf music.

Chapters 5 and 6

Chapter 5 Question: What did Jesse want to stop Winnie from
doing?
My Answer: He wanted to stop her from drinking from the
spring.

Chapter 6 Question:Explain why Mae gave Winnie the music
box.
:My Answer: To help calm her down.

Chapters 7 and 8

Chapter 7 Question:When the tucks first came to treegap, who
drank from the spring? Who did not?
My Answer:When they came to treegap All of the tucks drank
from the spring including there horse, but there cat did not.

Chapter 8 Question:What proof of the tucks story was provided
for the reader earlier in the novel.
My Answer:The last page of chapter two was proof for the
reader because Mae tuck said in her head that she had looked
the same for years.

Again ‘The boys will be That she is excited for
and home tomorrow’ her sons to come
Again home
Page 9

‘I will, though. You'll Winnie's question was
see. Maybe even first if she should run away
thing in the morning’ and sneak out of the
house.
Page 15

‘“Oh” he said, “I’m It wasn't answered who
looking for someone. that family was in
A family”’ between the prologue
and chapter 8
Page 19

‘“It sounds like a music box” Winnies perspective is
Page 21’ different from her
grandmothers who
thinks its elf music.

‘For the wood was full There was a lot of
of light. It was green detail about what the
and amber and alive’ woods looked like.

Page 24

‘And her face went Mae Tuck had a aha
bleak’ moment on what was
happening.
Page 30

Aha
moment

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. Winnie sneaks out of her house
and goes into the woods to see where the music came from. She spots jessie on a tree that
has a spring coming out from its roots. She sees him take a drink and then starts a
conversation with him. She asks for a drink but jesse tries to stop her. Mae tuck and Miles
comes up. Winnie insist on a drink. The tucks grabbed her and threw her onto there horse. The
Tucks were just as alarmed as winnie and did there best to calm her down. Winnie is
surprisingly calm about the whole situation. They passed the man and the yellow suit and Mae
tuck says there just teaching there daughter how to ride, for some reason winnie doesn't
scream and ask him for help. Winnie begins to comprehend what just happened and starts
crying. Mae tuck hands it to Winnie to hopefully help her calm down. The tucks tell winnie there
story. The Tucks and there horse each took a drink from the spring except there cat. Pa carved
a T on the tree. They came out of the forest finally and set up some homes. Jesse fell on a tree
and landed straight on his head. The cats all die but all of the Tucks and even the horse go
threw experiences that should have killed them. They finally figure out the reason they aren't
changing is because of the spring. Winnie Foster is dumbfounded and amazed at the story. The
tucks feel great after telling her they continue to there home and eat breakfast on the way. The
man in the yellow suit was nearby and heard everything.



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 into a pond.

Chapter 10 Question:Analyze the differences between Winnie's
house and the Tucks house.
My Answer: Winnie's house is very orderly while the tucks
house is quite messy.

Chapters 11 and 12

Chapter 11 Question: Analyze the differences between a dinner
at the fosters house and a dinner at the tucks house.
My Answer:The difference is that at the Fosters house there are
many rules while at the tucks house there seems to be none at
all.

Chapter 12 Question: What does tuck say about immortality?
My Answer: Tuck believes that immortality can't be called living
since you don't change.

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 the tucks
would have a harder time trying to get Winnie back home.

Chapter 14 Question:Analyze how Tuck and Mae differ in their
opinions about the horse thief.
My Answer:The differences in their opinions is that Tuck thinks
it's going to add up to something worse why Mae thinks it's just
a bit of misfortune.

Chapters 15-17

Chapter 15 Question:The stranger has the Fosters “in between
a rock and a hard place”. What does the idiom mean?
My Answer: The idiom “in between a rock and a hard place” is
used to describe an impossible to solve situation with no good
options.

Chapter 16 Question:Explain what the constable learned from
the stranger.
My Answer:The constable learned from the stranger were
winnie was.

Chapter 17 Question:What happened when Miles caught the
fish?
My Answer:When miles caught the fish Winnie told him to put it
back immediately.

‘“But dyings part of the Tuck is telling Winnie
wheel”’ how life works and that
deaths apart of it to.
Page 63

‘Winnie blinked, and Winnie realises what
all at once her mind Tuck is trying to tell
was drowned with her.
understanding of what
Aha he was saying.’
moment

Page 63

‘“Hush now tuck, your Tuck thinks that the
too much of a worrier” horse being stolen
means that something
Page 67’ else bad is going to
happen. While Mae
thinks it's just a bit of
misfortune.

‘I want to change, even if that Tuck believes that
means moving on at the end death is important in
of it.’ life.

Page 64

‘’I want grow again There seems to be a
and change’ lot of concepts about
change in this book so
Page 64 far.

‘It came down far over The book tells you the
her ears and gave her details of how Winnie
a clownish looks with the hat on.
appearance’

Page 64

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They continue traveling to the Tucks house. They finally arrive to the Tucks house. Miles and
Jesse jump into the tiny pond the moment they get there. Winnie meets AngusTuck.

Winnie realises how different the Touch Me Not cottage is compared to the Tucks house. She
explores the house. Miles and jesse come back from the pond.

They have a supper of flapjacks, bacon, bread, and applesauce. Winnie comes to the realization
that she's just been kidnapped and says she wants to go home. Mae tuck says they'll take her
home once they make sure she understands why she has to keep the secret. Angus says he’ll
take her out on the pond to tell her why she needs to keep the secret.

After supper they go out on the pond in a row boat. Angus tells her that life is always changing
and moving like the water, and that everything must die someday if they are truly living. He
brings the rowboat to a fallen tree and it becomes stuck, he says that they are stuck and aren't
moving and changing. Winnie realises what forever means, and at that moment miles calls out
and say somebody stole the horse.

The man in the yellow suit rides up to the Touch Me Not cottage, he says he knows were winnie
is.

Everybody went to bed because there was nothing else to do. Winnie has a hard time sleeping.
Mae Tuck comes to visit her to see if she's alright. Tuck came to check on her too. The last
person was jesse who came to check on her, he gives her the offer of drinking the water from
the spring when she turns seventeen. Winnie finally falls asleep.

The man in the yellow suit is talking with the fosters.

Chapters 18-25

Chapters 18 and 19

Chapter 18 Question:Explain the lie Miles told for Winnie.
My Answer:The lie Miles told was a bit off the truth.

Chapter 19 Question:What is the strangers plans for the wood?
My Answer:The stranger plans to sell the spring water.

Chapters 20 and 21

Chapter 20 Question:What are the constables plans?
for the stranger. If the stranger dies he plans to take mae too
the gallows.My Answer:The constable plans to take winnie
home, lock up mae, and get a doctor

Chapter 21 Question:Explain how Winnies family reacted when
they heard her story.
My Answer:The Fosters didn't believe her one bit.

Chapters 22 and 23

Chapter 22 Question:What did Winnie learn about toads in this
chapter?
My Answer: She learns that they soak up water through their
skin like a sponge.

Chapter 23 Question:Why is the weather so difficult to bear
during this time period?
My Answer:It's difficult to bear the weather because there in a
time where there is no technology to cool down.

Chapters 24 and 25

Chapter 24 Question:What sound symbolized the exit of the
Tucks?
My Answer:When Winnie heard Maes music box she knew they
had left.

Chapter 25 Question:How long has it been since that fateful
night?
My Answer:It had been two weeks since Winnie helped the
Tucks escape.

Epilogue

What does the reader learn from the epilogue in this novel? Do
you think the epilogue was necessary?
I believe the epilogue was necessary so that we now that Winnie
in the end did not drink from the spring.

‘“And when I gave it to her, it When the stranger
reminded her of something”’ gave his grandmother
a present it reminded
Page 95 her of something.

‘“Then she moved We never found out
west. I don't know what happened to
what became of her.”’ Miles family in the
book or were they
Page 95 went.

‘Winnie had her own This means the Winnie
strong sense of has her own set of
rightness.’ morals.

Page 118

‘“If its true about the spring, This reveals Winnies
then he must die’” inner struggles about if
the stranger needs to
Page 109 die or not.

‘“You can’t do that, you The Tucks and the
got to be out of your strangers perspective
mind!”’ are very different.

‘“It'll only be for a
select few.”’

Page 97

‘Rain blew into her There are alot of
face, but at the next dramatic details in this
flash of lightning.’ chapter.

Page 126

Summarize

Chapters 18-25

They had flapjacks for breakfast since Winnie and miles didn't get any fish. They get a knock on
the door and go to answer it and it turns out to be the stranger.

He says that he's here to take Winnie back home and Angus Tuck says that Winnie hasn't been
in any danger. The stranger says he wants to talk to the tucks. He tells them that he heard
stories from his grandmother about a family that lived forever, his grandmother was a friend of
Miles's old wife. Later on, he gifts his grandmother a music box that reminds her of the mother of
the family. His grandmother taught him the tune and he goes on with his life. He decides to go
searching for the family and heard Maes music box from the woods. He tells them how he
followed them heard the story and stole their horse. He tells them how he owns the woods and
how he's going to sell the spring water. He gives them the offer of being examples for selling the
water by doing things that would normally be fatal. The tucks are dumbfounded and immediately
decline. The tucks yell at him because he's going to let the secret out (and probably ruin the
world). He takes Winnie by force and is going to force her to drink some spring water to be a
demonstration. Mae picks up tucks old shotgun and shoots the stranger right as the constable
comes.

The man is on the ground unconscious. The constable has his shotgun in his hands and is
currently yelling at Mae, she tells him he was going to take Winnie against her will. Winnie tells
the constable that she went with the tucks because she wanted to. The constable takes Me into
custody and says she's getting the gallows if the stranger does not survive. He takes Winnie and
Mae to tree gap on a horse.

The constable brings her home and Winnie tells her family that she went of her own free will but
they won't believe her. Her family tucks her into bed, Winnie thinks if the stranger needs to die or
not. She hears the constable talking to her family and saying that the stranger died.

The next day she goes out to the yard. She spots the toad and asks her granny if she can give it
some water. The toad hops off before they can. Jesse comes by to Winnie and says they have a
plan to get me out. Winnie offers to take Mae's place in the jailhouse. Winnie's grandmother calls
her inside.

Winnie's family goes to bed and Winnie waits for midnight. Why she waits she thinks because
she is about to commit a felony. It's finally midnight and Winnie gets up.

She leaves the surprisingly easy house. She finds Jesse and they go to the jailhouse.
Miles slowly takes out nails one by one. They take off the window and Mae crawls out.
Winnie crawls in through the window taking Mae's place. When Winnie hears Maes
music box she knows they left.

It's been two weeks since the night and Winnie is thinking. She remembers how angry the
constable was at her and how her family asked her why she did it. The fosters are even
more protective of Winnie now and rarely let her go anywhere without them, some kids
have started to talk to her. She spots the toad being bothered by a dog. She shoos the
dog away and decides the pour the water from the spring o

I believe that Winnie Foster is a
curious kid, we see that when she
leaves the Touch me Not cottage to
see what that music was

I believe that Jesse tuck is a playful sort,
I believe this because in the book he
can be seen teasing MIles.



Click and type your answer
here.

Mae Tuck is gentle
and caring, we know
this from how she
worried about winnie
in the first few
chapters.

He is particularly greedy and
only thinks about himself, we
know this because he does
not once consider what will
happen if he sells the pond
water.

Mrs. Tucks isn't Mrs. Foster from
as wealthy as what we can tell is
Mrs. foster and a rich
currently isn't as upperclassman
formal. who is very formal.

One of the few things that they have in
common is that they both seem to care for
Winnie.



Places: The fosters house ...Touch Me Not
cottage… The pond… Jailhouse… The woods
Time period: 1800’s

Type:1st person
How do you know?: I know because we see the
story from Winnies perspective and her thoughts
only.

Type: External
Conflict: The fight between the Tucks and

the stranger

Throughout the novel the tone was mostly
peaceful; however, at the climax it became
melancholy.

The toad is a symbol in the story because it keeps reappearing
between parts of the book and we even see it for a short time in
the epilogue

The theme is definitely about change and how it
makes life life.

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 Miles dismantles the jail cell
Winnie’s parents that if they don’t give window and helps Mae escape.
him what he wants he won’t tell them Winnie is there to provide
where their daughter is. support. If the constable hears
their escape, they’re doomed!
Winnie sneaks off into the forest and
discovers a boy drinking from a small The constable comes
stream. Then his family kidnaps her. into the jail cell to find
Winnie has taken Mae’s
Winnie’s family controls her. They place and helped her
won’t let her try anything risky to escape.
make a difference in the world like she
wants to.

Winnie lives in a forest The Man in the Yellow Suit tells Winnie’s parents
area that her family that if they don’t give him what he wants he won’t
owns near the town of tell them where their daughter is.
Treegap. It’s in the past
with wagons instead of The Tuck family continues to stay young while
cars. Winnie ages and dies. A fire burns down the woods
and covers the secret forever. The toad lives forever
because of the water from Winnie.

Tuck
Everlasting

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Tuck Everlasting Page 63

This page had an aha moment, I
understand how Winnie feels
because sometimes we are
forced to think about topics
that we don't like, even if we
don't like them they are still
important and we still have to
think about it from time to time.

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Tuck Everlasting Page

This is a different perspective
moment, I can relate to tuck
because all of us have at least
talked to someone who is doing
the opposite of what you believe
is right, so you feel like you have
to stand your ground against
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On this page there is a
Different perspective
signpost. We can relate to
Mae because there will always
be those times when
somebody worries about
something the shouldnt.

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