I’ll leave the story there so as not to spoil it for those who haven’t read it. ![]() But he’s not inclined to keep any secrets: in fact, he wants to profit by them. But what neither of them realize is that the secret is already out: a nameless man in a yellow suit has been following, questioning, and has overheard. The father, Angus, explains why it is so important for her to keep their secret. Winnie isn’t sure she believes the story, but she likes the Tucks. They could not stay in one place for long because when people noticed they didn’t age, they accused them of witchcraft. So they covered up the spring with rocks. When they came back to the spring years later, the tree near where they stopped had not grown at all, and the “T” the father had carved there looked freshly done. But when different ones of them had serious accidents but didn’t die, and after a while they realized that none of them was aging (not even the horse), they tried to trace back the cause. They didn’t know at first that anything was different. They share that 87 years ago, they came across this same woods and spring and drank from it, as did their horse. When the boy’s mother and brother happen along, they whisk Winnie away to their home.Īfter Winnie simmers down from being kidnapped, the Tuck family explains that they had to do what they did, and after they explain, they’ll be very glad to take her back home the next day. But when she wants a drink from the stream, he tries to keep her from doing so, which raises her ire. She is startled to come upon a teenage boy drinking from a stream, and they converse easily. Something that would make some kind of difference in the world.” She can’t quite muster the courage to run away, but she does venture out into the woods near her family’s home, something she has never done before. As an only child of a fairly strict and controlling family, she’s restless to get out from under the constant watchfulness and longs to do “something interesting–something that’s all mine. Ten year old Winnie Foster is contemplating running away. Thankfully it was available for the Kindle for a good price. It’s the opening sentence from Tuck Everlasting, and it so arrested me that I had to read the book. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot.” “The first week of August hangs at the very top of the summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. But a couple of weeks ago I was looking for a quote about August and came across this one: Decades later, Angus discovers that Winnie chose not to drink the water and died at age 78 after getting married and having children.I hadn’t planned to read Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt until I saw Carrie’s review of it, and even then, it wasn’t high on the TBR list. A few weeks later, she gives the water that Jesse gave her to the toad. She decides to help the Tucks break Mae out of jail by taking Mae's place, which she believes is a way of making a difference in the world. Winnie knows that the man was going to do a horrible thing but also believes that killing is wrong. Mae clubs the man over the head, killing him. The next morning, the man in the yellow suit shows up and threatens to make Winnie drink the water so she can help him sell it. She begins to believe Angus that being immortal is a curse, though Jesse invites her to drink the water when she's 17. Through several conversations with Angus and Miles, Winnie confronts the fact that she's going to eventually die. She vacillates between being scared and feeling as though the Tucks are dear friends as she gets to know them. There, Winnie is shocked to discover that the Tucks live a happy yet disordered life that’s completely different from her own. Winnie doesn't believe them, as she's not one for fairytales or fantasy stories, but nonetheless agrees to go with her kidnappers to their homestead. Jesse, his brother Miles, and his mother Mae whisk Winnie away and tell her a fantastical story about becoming immortal after drinking from the stream. There, she meets a young man named Jesse drinking from a stream, and she's immediately attracted to him. Though Winnie loses her nerve overnight because she's afraid of being alone, she does decide to take a walk in her family's wood. She tells all of this to a toad on the other side of the fence outside her house, adding that she wants to make a difference in the world. When the reader first meets Winnie, she's deliberating about running away to escape the stifling care of her mother, father, and Granny, whom she believes pay her too much attention. The ten-year-old protagonist of the novel.
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