Wyatt Niles - 20-21 Tuck Online Notebook (Q2 Grade) - 2739436

Tuck

Everlasting

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Chapters 1-8

Prologue

Question: Summarize how the month of August is described.
My Answer: The month of August is described as the month that starts the colder

weather and the end of summer.

Question: Explain the purpose of May Tuck’s trip.
My Answer: The purpose of May Tuck’s trip was to see her two sons Miles and Jesse.

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 is creepy and because it was

private property.

Chapter 2 Question: Explain why Mae is so excited.
My Answer: Mae is so excited because she is seeing her children after 10 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 when she said she might do it

tomorrow while everyone is sleeping.

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

identify the interruption?

My Answer: A music box interrupted the conversation, but Granny identified the

interruption as elves.

Chapters 5 and 6

Chapter 5 Question: Explain why Winnie decided not to run away.
My Answer: She decided to not run away because she was afraid of being alone.

Chapter 6 Question: How does Winnie react to the kidnapping?
My Answer: Winnie reacts to the kidnapping with her body feeling scared, but with her

head feeling calm.

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: Everybody except the cat drank the water from the treegap.

Chapter 8 Question: Do you think Winnie believes the Tuck’s story? Explain.
My Answer: I think Winnie believes it because because Jesse is 104 years old but she

looks like 17 years old.

Page 45 Winnie was thinking
that if she could live
“The sweet earth opened out forever then she could
its wide four corners to her do anything and the
like the petals of a flower world was more
ready to be picked, and it magical than she ever
shimmered with light and imagined.
possibility till she was dizzy
with it.”

Page 40 This was how the
Tuck’s found out why
“ It hadn’t changed, no they were different
more’n we had.” “And than everyone else.
that was how we
found out.”

Page 23 Winnie’s mom is very
strict and doesn’t let
“Well, anyway, she her leave the fence,
could at least slip out, but Winnie is leaving
right now, she the fence and not
decided, and go into telling her mom where
the wood.” she’s going.

Page 22 Winnie was deciding if
“Where would I go, anyway?” she was going to run
away or not.

Page 39 & 43 Miles lost everyone he
loved because he
“My wife, she finally made up doesn’t age. He’s
her mind I’d sold my soul to trying to tell Winnie
the Devil. She left me. She that not aging has bad
went away and she took the parts too.
children with her.” “There’s a
whole lot more to it than
Jesse Tuck’s good times, you
know.”

Page 45 Winnie might be
influenced by the
“Why, she too, might Tuck’s experiences.
live forever in this
remarkable world she
was only just
discovering!”

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: How do the Tucks make the trip easier for Winnie when she

feels hot and tired?

My Answer: The Tucks made the trip easier for Winnie when she felt hot and tired by

Mae giving her a hat to wear and Miles carrying her.

Chapter 10 Question:Explain why the Tucks have to move soon.
My Answer: The Tucks have to move soon because they have lived in their house for 20

years and people will notice soon they are not aging and their secret might be discovered.

Chapters 11 and 12

Chapter 11 Question:If you were taken by the Tucks, how would you feel? Explain.
My Answer: If I was taken by the Tucks, I would feel curious because I would want to

know what their life was like and how they deal with not aging and living forever.

Chapter 12 Question: What did Tuck mean when he told Winnie that life is a

“wheel” that continues to move around?

My Answer: When Tuck told Winnie that life is a “wheel” that continues to move around,

he meant life and death are part of living and they are connected.

Chapters 13 and 14

Chapter 13 Question: What news did the stranger reveal to the Fosters?
My Answer: The stranger told the Fosters he knew where the little girl is.

Chapter 14 Question:Describes Jesse’s proposition to Winnie.
My Answer: Jesse wants Winnie to drink the water when she is 17 so she can live forever

too and they can get married and travel around the world forever.

Chapters 15-17

Chapter 15 Question: Would you give in to the stranger’s blackmail? Explain why or why not.
My Answer: Yes, I would give into the stranger’s blackmail, but I would booby trap him because their

is the water that makes you immortal.

Chapter 16 Question: Why do you suppose the stranger ditched the constable? Explain
My Answer: The stranger ditched the constable because the constable was being annoying and he

didn't want to talk to him.

Chapter 17 Question:Explain what happened when Miles caught the fish.
My Answer: When Miles caught the fish, Winnie felt bad for the fish, so she repeatedly told Miles to

let the fish go.

Page 48 “For Tuck’s head Tuck is excited for
tilted to one side, his soft once because he
eyes went soft, and the hasn’t seen a growing
gentlest smile in the world child in so long, it
displaced the melancholy made him happy to see
creases of his cheeks.” Winnie.

Page 54 “Life’s got to Mae is explaining to
be lived, no matter Winnie that even when
how long or short,” bad things come you
she said calmly. “You way you have to keep
got to take what moving forward.
comes.”

Page 64 “You can’t Tuck is telling Winne
have living without that dying is a natural
dying. So you can’t part of the life cycle.
call it living, what we
got. We just are, we
just be, like rocks
beside the road.”

Page 47 “It was as if they The trees are sort of
had slipped under a giant like a protective shield
colander. The late sun’s and the area is very
brilliance could penetrate private.
only in scattered glimmers.”
“The graceful arms of the
pines stretched out
protectively in every
direction.”

Page 71 “She felt Winnie has decided
cared for and - that she likes the
confused. All at once Tucks because they
she wondered what make her feel cared
would happen to the for and loved and they
tucks when her father are good people. She
came. What would he is worried about what
do to them?” will happen to them.

Page 86 “If all the Winnie finally understood
mosquitoes lived there would be worldwide
forever - and if they devastation if people kept
kept on having babies! on having babies and no
- it would be terrible. one ever died. The world
The Tucks were right. would be overpopulated.
It was best if no one She thinks it’s a good idea
knew about the to keep the water a
spring.” secret.

Summarize
Chapters 9-17

● The Tuck’s bring Winnie to their house.
● Tuck took Winnie out on a boat and talked to

her about the natural cycle of life and how
living forever isn’t natural or good because it
stops the natural cycle of life. That’s the
reason she shouldn’t tell anyone.
● Jesse told Winnie that she should drink from
the fountain when she’s 17 so they can get
married and travel around the world together
for the rest of eternity.
● The man in the yellow suit went to the
Foster’s house and convinced them to give
him their wood in exchange for the girl.
● The man in the yellow suit is leading the
constable to the Tuck’s house.

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 did the stranger say he was going to do to Winnie? How

did Mae respond?

My Answer: The stranger threatened to make Winnie drink the water and May clocked

him in the head with the shotgun.

Chapters 20 and 21

Chapter 20 Question: Explain what will happen to Mae if the stranger dies.
My Answer:If the stranger dies, she’ll go to gallows and be hanged.

Chapter 21 Question: Why weren’t the Tucks charged with kidnapping? Explain.
My Answer: The Tuck’s weren’t charged with kidnapping because Winnie said she

willingly went with them.

Chapters 22 and 23

Chapter 22 Question: What did Winnie learn about toads in this chapter?
My Answer: Winnie learned that toads do not drink water. They soak it in through their

skin like a sponge.

Chapter 23 Question: Explain why Winnie is struggling with her conscience.

My Answer: Winnie is struggling with her conscience because she knows it’s the right

thing to do to get Mae out of jail, but her parents will be disappointed when the constable
brings her home.

Chapters 24 and 25

Chapter 24 Question: Explain how the weather is parallel with the climax and falling

action.

My Answer: The weather is parallel with the climax and falling action because when it

was lightning they were breaking into the jail. After Mae escaped and Winnie took her place,
the storm vanished.

Chapter 25 Question: Why didn’t Winnie get charged with aiding the escape?
My Answer: Winnie didn't get charged with aiding escape because she was too young to

get charged.

Epilogue

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

The reader learned that the wood is gone, Winnie did not drink the water and died in 1948,
and that the toad is going to live forever.
Yes, the epilogue was necessary.

Page 100 Mae was scared of the
man taking Winnie, so
Her strong arms swung the she protected her
shotgun round her head, like because she loved and
a wheel. The man in the cared for.
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.

Page 119 Winnie is debating if
she wants to drink the
And if she did, would water, but knows there
she be sorry will be consequences.
afterwards?

Page 121 Winnie usually listened

And she was struck to her parents, but she
with the realization was sneaking out at
that, if she chose, she night.

could slip out night

after night without their

knowing.

Page 114 Winnie usually follows
the rules, but is offering
“I can help! When your to break Mae out of jail.
mother climbs out the
window, I’ll climb in and take
her place.”

Page 121 Winnie was feeling like
this is a change in her
Leaving the cottage was life.
like leaving something
real and moving into a
dream. Her body felt
weightless, and she
seemed to float down the
path to the gate.

Page 99 Tuck is usually calm,
but he jumped up and
“You’re a madman! A yelled at the man in the
loony!” yellow suit about
selling the water.

Summarize

Chapters 18-25

The man in the yellow suit came to the Tuck’s
house. He wanted the Tuck’s to help him sell the
water, but they wanted to keep it a secret
because it would catastrophic if the secret got
out. Mae clocked him in the head with the
shotgun when he tried to take Winnie away. The
constable saw her clock him. He arrested Mae
and was going to send her to gallows to hang
after the man in the yellow suit died of his
injuries. Winnie helped the Tucks break Mae out
of jail and took her place in the jail cell. The
Tuck’s left town and didn’t return until after
Winnie’s death.

Winnie is brave.
Winnie is caring.
Winnie is loyal.

Courageous
Poor
Smart
caring

Cares for others.
Tall
Poor
Respected
smart

Smart
Unpopular
Hates being immortal
caring
poor

Tough
Cares for others
Protective
Optimistic
courageous

Mean
Stealer
selfish

Courageous Rich
Brave Coward
Poor Easily tricked

Love their families
Care for Winnie



Places:
Time period:

Type:
How do you know?

Type: character vs character
Conflict:the man in the yellow suit was

threatening to take winnie.

Throughout the novel the tone was mostly loud
and harsh; however at the climax it became
more anxious

The wheel

The theme is life because the wheel i talked
about when miles said life is like a wheel it
moves on unless you drink the water it stops
that sycle.

Tuck
Everlasting

Booksnaps

Tuck Everlasting Page

Write your thoughts here

Place your page image over Winnie is debating on
this box so it is covered up! whether she wants to drink
the water. She is feeling
excited about maybe being
able to live forever and
experience things and
having fun like Jesse does.

Tuck Everlasting Page

Write your thoughts here

Place your page image over Tuck told Winnie that if
this box so it is covered up! you’re living forever,
you’re not actually
living because there is
no natural cycle or
ending.

Tuck Everlasting Page

Write your thoughts here

Place your page image over Mae loved Winnie and
this box so it is covered up! knew the man in the
yellow suit was bad. She
was protecting Winnie
when the man tried to take
her. Mae was usually a
nice and caring person,
and this violence was not
something she would
normally do.

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.