Greyson Davies - 20-21 Tuck Online Notebook (Q2 Grade) - 4225838

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 end of the
year, sad.

Question:Describe what is on Winnie Foster’s mind.
My Answer: Winnie Foster is thinking about running away.

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 they
would be trespassing.

Chapter 2 Question: Explain why Mae is so excited.
My Answer: Mae is excited because the boys are coming home
the next day.

Chapters 3 and 4

Chapter 3 Question:What does Winnie want to do with her life?
My Answer: Winnie wants to run away

Chapter 4 Question:What did the stranger ask Winnie?
My Answer: The stranger asked Winnie if the house she was at
was her’s.

Chapters 5 and 6

Chapter 5 Question:Explain why Winnie decided not to run away.
My Answer: Winnie did not run away because she did not know
where to run.

Chapter 6 Question:Why didn’t Winnie signal to the stranger when she went by him?
My Answer: Winnie didńt signal to the stranger when they rode
pass him because when she thought about signaling to him she
was already too far away.

Chapters 7 and 8

Chapter 7 Question:How did revealing the story make the Tucks feel?
My Answer: Revealing the story to the tucks made them curious

Chapter 8 Question: Do you think Winnie believes the Tuck’s story? Explain.
My Answer: I think Winnie did not believe in the story because
she thought it was a fairytale and she does not believe in
fairytales.

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Pag. 9 I think this is an aha
moment because Mae
¨The boys´ll be home Tuck realizes the boys
tomorrow!¨ will be home the next
day.

Pg. 3 ¨The first week I think this is language
of August hangs at the of the discipline
very top of summer, because it describes
the top of the live-long the month of August.
year, like the highest
seat of a ferris wheel
when it pauses in its
turning¨

Pg. 17 ¨His long chin I think this language of
faded off into a thin, the discipline because
apologetic beard, but it is describing the
his suit was a jaunty stranger.
yellow that seemed to
glow a little in the
fading light.¨

¨Not long after, Miles went I think this is a memory
on, some hunters come by moment because they
one day at sunset. The horse looked back to the past
was out grazing by some and remembered
trees and they shot him. something.
Mistook him for a deer, they
said. Can you fancy that? I think this is language
But the thing is, they didn't of the discipline
kill him. The bullet went right because it is
on through him, and didn`t describing the first
hardly even leave a mark.¨ house on the street.

Pg. 6 ¨ On the left stood the first

house, a square and solid Cottage
with a touch-me-not appearance,
surrounded by grass cut painfully to
the quick and enclosed by capable
iron fence 4 feet high which clearly
said, Move on we don't want you
here. ¨

Pg. 15 ¨I`d better run I think this is contrast
away.¨ and contradiction
because Winnie is
usually a rule follower
but she is now deciding
to break the rules.

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.
● Winnie decides not to run away and decides to venture the woods. Winnie
meets Jesse Tuck and gets told not to drink from the spring.
● Winnie gets kidnapped by the Tucks and see’s the stranger standing off the
road while Winnie is getting kidnapped but the stranger did not notice. Once
they reached the woods they stopped by the water and told Winnie about the
music box.
● The Tucks told Winnie about how miles was out with the horse and some
hunters mistaken him for a deer and shot him but did not hurt him at all.
Winnie did not believe them.
● The Tucks warn Winnie not to drink the water from the spring. When Winnie
was playing with the Tucks she realized she made friends.



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 because
they gave Winnie they’re straw hat and Miles carried her some
of the way.

Chapter 10 Question:Analyze the differences between the Tuck’s house and

Winnie’s house.

My Answer:The Tuck’s house is different from Winnie’s house
because the Tuck’s house is dirty, disorganized, and old, as
Winnie’s house is nice and clean.

Chapters 11 and 12

Chapter 11 Question:Analyze the differences between dinner at the Fosters and

dinners at the Tucks.

My Answer:The dinner at The Tuckś Is different from dinner at The
Fosters, because the Tuck´s eat on the ground without any napkins
or table as The Fosters eat at a table with napkins

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

that continues to move around?

My Answer:Tuck meant everything repeats itself, just in a different
way.

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 he could
deliver the news quicker

Chapter 14 Question:Analyze how Tuck and Mae differ in their opinions about the

horse thief.

My Answer:Tuck and Mae have different opinions because Mae
said that the horse thief is mean for stealing the horse but Tuck
thinks that the horse thief had a good reason.

Chapters 15-17

Chapter 15 Question:Describe the stranger’s plan.

My Answer:The stranger’s plan is to get Winnie to the Fosters
so he can get wood from the trees.

Chapter 16 Question:Explain what the constable learns from the stranger.

My Answer:The constable learn that the stranger is not willing
to to anything unless he gets something in return.

Chapter 17 Question:What did Miles reveal to Winnie about his children during the boat trip?

My Answer:Miles revealed that his kids did not drink from the
spring so they died, and he wished he knew about the spring
earlier so he could save them.

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Pg.46 I think this is language
of the discipline
¨Great pink with sunburn, her nose because it describes
vivid, comic read, ¨ Miles.

Pg.51 I think this is language
of the discipline
¨Patches and scraps because it describes
of bright cloth; Mae´s sewing.
half-completed quilts
and braided rug´s¨

Pg.52 I think this is language
of the discipline
¨The arms of the chair because it describes
webbed with strands the arms of the chair.
of thread and
dangerous with
needles.¨

Pg.71 I think this is Tough
Questions because
¨And all at once she something might
wondered what would happen to the Tucks
happen to the Tucks when that will later affect the
her father came. What would rest of the story.
he do to them?¨

Pg. I think this is language
of the discipline
¨The sky was a ragged because it describes
blazed of red and pink the sunrise.
and orange, and its
double trembled on the
surface of the pond like
color spilled from a
paintbox.

Pg. 62 I think this is word of
the wiser because
“It’s a wheel, Winnie. Tuck is giving Winnie
Everything’s a wheel, advice about life
turning and turning,
never stopping.The
frogs is part of it, and
the bugs, and the fish,
and the wood thrush,
too.”

Summarize
Chapters 9-17

In chapters 9-17 it describes how the stranger finds out about the
magical spring and tells the Fosters where Winnie is.
● Winnie and the Tucks arrive at the Tucks house and Winnie meets
Tuck.
● Winnie explores the house and learns where all the rooms are and
gets ready for supper
● Winnie eats supper and learns they eat dinner at the parlor and don´t
talk while eating. Winnie tells them she knows the stranger. Tuck is
about to take Winnie on a boat ride.
● Tuck took Winnie fishing on the pond and tells her about the bad
things about drinking the water. Someone steals their horse.
● The stranger brings the horse to the Foster´s house to tell them
where Winnie is.
● The Tucks and Winnie go to bed and Winnie wonders what will
happen to the Tucks when her father finds her.
● The stranger makes a deal with Fosters and he tells them where
Winnie is.
● The stranger and the Fosters go to the constable to get help to find
Winnie. And they leave to find Winnie.
● Winnie goes with Miles fishing and Miles tells Winnie about his kids
and he catches a fish and Winnie demands him to throw it back in
the water.

Chapters 18-25

Chapters 18 and 19

Chapter 18 Question:Explain the lie Miles told for Winnie.
My Answer:Mile’s lied by saying they caught fish but none of
them were fish they wanted to eat, when really they didn’t catch
any fish.

Chapter 19 Question:Explain how the Tucks and the stranger knew the same person.
My Answer: The Tuckś and the stranger both knew Winnie
because Winnie talked to Miles and the stranger walked by
Winnieś house and talked to her.

Chapters 20 and 21

Chapter 20 Question:Explain why the constable does not believe the Tucks.
My Answer:The constable does not believe the Tucks, because
he saw the stranger get shot at the Tuckś house by Mae.

Chapter 21 Question:Why weren’t the Tucks charged with kidnapping? Explain.
My Answer:The Tuckś were not charged with kidnapping,
because Winnie said that they did not kidnap her.

Chapters 22 and 23

Chapter 22 Question:Describe the escape plan that Jesse reveals to Winnie.

My Answer:The escape plan is the Tucks will take out the
window bars and Mae will climb out and they will run away.

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

period?

My Answer:The weather is difficult to bear because the Tucks
and Winnie were about to free Mae and run away but it was
raining so it would be hard to free Mae, because it will be
muddy and slippery to run away.

Chapters 24 and 25

Chapter 24 Question: “Leaving the cottage was like leaving something real and

moving into a dream.” What is the author trying to show with this simile?

My Answer:The author is trying to show that Winnie thinks of
the cottage. As uncomfortable, unwelcoming, and old.

Chapter 25 Question:How much time has gone by since that fateful night?
My Answer:It has been 2 weeks since the night Mae had
escaped, because it said, “It had been a trying two weeks.”

Epilogue

What does the reader learn from the epilogue in this novel? Do
you think the epilogue was necessary? The reader learns how
Treegap has changed and how Winnie didńt drink the water and
when she died.

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Pg.97 I think this is different
perspectives because
“I’m going to sell the water, the stranger thinks
you see.” selling the water is a
good idea, but the
“You can’t do that!” roared Tucks think that it is a
Tuck. bad idea.

Pg. 123 I think this is again
and again because
“Stone walls do not a prison Winnie repeated the
make, Nor iron bars a cage.” words inside her head.

“Over and over the lines repeated
themselves in her head till they
were altogether meaningless.”

Pg. 132 I think this is
unanswered questions
“Winnie pulled out the cork because the book did
from the mouth of the not tell why Winnie
bottle, and kneeling, she poured the water over
poured the precious water, the toad.
very slowly and carefully,
over the toad.”

Pg.129 I think this a contrast
and contradiction
“She was . . . an accomplice. moment because
She had helped a murderer Winnie has never
escape.” broke the rules but now
she helped someone
escape

Pg. 116 I think this is details
because it is
“The sun was a ponderous describing the sun.
circle without edges, a roar
without a sound, a blazing
glare so thorough and
remorseless that even in the
Foster’s parlor, with curtains
drawn down, it seemed an
actual presence.”

Pg. 117 I think this is details
because it describes
“It was not so much the sky.
clouding up as
thickening, somehow,
from every direction at
once, the blank blue
gone to haze.”

Summarize

Chapters 18-25

In chapters 18-25 the stranger tells the Tucks his plan and Mae
accidently kills him. She is then sent to jail.
● Winnie goes fishing with miles and does not catch any fish. They eat
flapjacks for breakfast. When they finish breakfast the stranger
comes to the Tucks house
● The stranger tells the Tucks his plan, they disagree and Mae
accidently kills him, the treegap constable saw what happened.
● The constable studies the stranger nd finds out he is not dead yet.
The constable arrest Mae.
● The constable brings Winnie home and her family treats her well
because they think elves did something to her. The stranger is
reported dead.
● Winnie finds the toad again and wants to give it water, but when she
came back the toad was gone. Jesse found a plan to free Mae, and
then shared it with Winnie.
● Winnie thinks about what would happen if she drank the water at 17
and found Jesse. She leaves her house to go free Mae.
● Winnie helps Mae escape by taking her place in jail. Winnie
hears The Tucks escape.
● Winnie is freed because she is too young to be punished. She
finds the toad again and saved it from a dog trying to eat it. She
then pours the spring water on its head.

Winnie is brave, nice,
poor, caring and willing.
She is an 11 year old girl
with brown hair.

Jesse has the look of a
seventeen year old boy, but
is one hundred and four
years old. He has brown
hair and he is dirty.

Miles is good at catching
fish and nice. He is 22
years old, he also used to
be a carpenter and a
blacksmith.

Angus Tuck is Maeś
husband and is the
protector of the spring. In
the book he sounds
depressed.

Mae is a potato
shaped woman that
is the wife to Angus
Tuck and a mother
to Jesse and Miles.

The stranger is a selfish man
that wears a yellow suit and
trys not to be seen. He takes
what he wants and does not
care for anyone else.

Does not worry Winnie’s mother,

about a lot, hates worries about a

the stranger lot

Worry about Winnie,



Places: Tucks house was dirty and old.The Foster’s house was clean and unused.

The woods was beautiful and smelled like trees, there was a spring next to an ash tree.

Time period:

Type: 3rd person omniscient
How do you know? I know the thoughts and
feelings of all the characters.

Type: individual vs individual
Conflict: Mae and Stranger

Throughout the novel the tone was mostly calm;
however, at the climax it became more
dramatic.

The toad represents freedom.

Think before you act.

The constable comes into the jail
cell to find Winnie has taken
Mae’s place and helped her
escape.

Miles dismantles the jail cell window and The Tuck family continues to stay young
helps Mae escape. Winnie is there to provide while Winnie ages and dies. A fire burns
support. If the constable hears their escape, down the woods and covers the secret
they’re doomed! forever. The toad lives forever because of the
water from Winnie.
Winnie sneaks off into the forest and
discovers a boy drinking from a small Winnie sees a dog wanting
stream. Then his family kidnaps her. to attack the toad so she
rescues him and pours the
Winnie’s family controls her. They won’t fountain water on him.
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 Mae get so mad at The Man in the Yellow
Foster lives with her that her family owns near Suit that she hits him over the head with
family by a wood they the town of Treegap. It’s in the gun and kills him.
own that no one goes the past with wagons
into. At its center is a instead of cars.
special fountain.

Tuck
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Tuck Everlasting Page

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life is a wheel, and
all animals and
people are apart
of it. This helped
me notice that
everyone will pass
away except the
Tucks.

Tuck Everlasting Page

Winnie had a contrast and
contradiction moment when she
decided to run away, because
she usually always will follow the
rules instead of breaking them.

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Tuck Everlasting Page

Mae Tuck had an aha moment
when she realized that Miles
and Jesse were coming home
the next day. She was in a rush
because she just realized that
the boys were coming home.

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