Christina's+Tuckresponses

=Tuck Everlasting Responses=

__Prologue__ I would not want to live forever because I can't meet my friends. If I live forever in that age, then my friends would grow up, go to college, get married, get a job, and etc. Since the friends of mine are going to get busy, I would have nothing to do. I would have to play with friends my age and make a lot of friends. Also, I wouldn't be able to remember all the names because I have a very bad memory. I would have to go to so many funerals. If all my friends get old and die, I would have to go to their funeral. Also, if I live forever, even though a lot of people are dieing from the pollution and little water, I would live. Soon, not a lot of people would be there for me to have as friends. Living alone in the world is quiet freaky. It would get haunted. If I do not know something, I wouldn't have people to ask for the answer. If I am happy, there is nobody to laugh with, if I am sad, there is nobody to cry with. I would have to have a land to farm on and I would need factories to make objects. I would have to do everything that is boring, so living alone in the world alone very old wouldn't help me in my life forever.

__Chapter One__ I think Natalie Babbitt uses a lot of describing words. She uses a lot of adjectives. She thinks everthing in this world has a center. For example, a tree has a center, a ferris wheel has a hub, a book has the main idea and so on. I agree on her too, because I think everthing has a center. body parts of animals or human has a center. The world has a center, the government has a center. If you look larger and larger everything would be equal. They would have a center. I agree with Natalie Babbitt.

__Chapter Two__ At the first part of the chapter two, Natalie Babbitt discribes the day in the first week of August. She talks about Mae Tuck woke up and the cobwebs at the ceiling. The author uses a lot of debsricptive words and hard vocabulary words. She explains what kinds of clothes Mae Tuck chose. She puts explanations to every clothes she chose. Babbitt also explained very well and helped me picture the whole chapter in one scene. Thanks to Babbitt.

__Chapter Three__ The first part of chapter three explains about the same day of the first week of August. Babbitt explains where Winnie Foster sat at the bristly grass. She explains clearly where everything is located. For example, Babbitt explains where the grass is located. She explains that the grass is inside the fence. She also explains about Winnie Foster talking to the toad heading few yards away from her. Babbitt tells the readers (me and other people) that the noon was the boiling hot part of the day and said that Winnie was about to boil in this part of the day. I think it was very hot because Babbitt explains that Winnie was near from boiling. Then, nobody would have come out except for few people because not a lot of people like hot weathers like me. "'Look her toad,' she said, thrusting her arms through the bars of the fence and plucking at the weed on the other side." This quote explains where Winnie sat. That means that Winnie was sitting almost near the fence because her arms are able to reach through the bars and the other side there were weeds so that she could pluck them as she was thrusting her arms. "She stood up, brushing at her legs where bits of itchy grass clung to her stockings." This quote tells us about the grass. The grasses are very icthy and very sharp so that the grasses clung to Winnie's stocking. Babbitt is very descriptive and I could understand every word she says about the settings.

__Chapter Four__ This chapter starts explaining about at night a stanger was walking across the road and he stopped at the front gate of the Froster's. Winnie was out to catch fireflies. Usually in America there are a lot of fireflies and this part explains that where Winnie's family live has fireflies around. When the stranger asked Winnie if her family lived long in this house Winnie answered that she lived here since she was born. That shows that the house is very old. Even when the house was not built this location was filled with trees. Also Winnie's grandmother believed in stars and she said that the elves sang this melody they heard at the night when the stanger came. Winnie thought it was a music box. I think it was the music box that Mae Tuck took to see her sons and she was still traveling. If Winnie was more than ten but under sixteen or more then it could be possible that she never heard it before since she is young and about our age.

__Chapter Five__ Jesse didn't let Winnie drink the water from the ground because if you drink that water, you would have to live forever in that age. Jesse didn't want Winnie to stop and live forever in that age. Winnie was very young to live in that age forever. Jesse thought that Winnie would miss all the good parts of her lives when she grows up. Since the Tuck family felt left out and had no friends, Jesse thought that it would happen to Winnie too. If I was Jesse, I wouldn't have let Winnie drink the water too. It is because I would have been old when I was Jesse's age. Then I think Winnie should experience her life when she was older and what she would do when she becomes an adult. I think people should also know how it feels like to die. I wouldn't want to live forever either.

__Chapter Six__ No, there wasn't really cold water falling down on her back bone. It was just a describtion about Winnie. I think Babbitt was trying to say that Winnie felt cold and dangerous without her parents. She felt chill because the Tuck kidnapped her,Winnie. 1. "...though her heart pounding and her backbone felt like pipe full of cold water, her head was fiercely calm."(pg.32) 2."It was like a ribbon trying her to familiar things..."(pg.35) The second question asks why Winnie did nothing when she saw the stranger. I think she was too scared that the Tuck family kidnapped her to act. She too scared even to talk. Winnie wanted to wave at the stanger and say hello to the stanger, but she just walked away.

__Chapter Seven__ I am very sorry, but I really didn't understand the plan Jesse was talking about. I really had nothing to reply but this. Again I am very Sorry.

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__Chapter Eight__ The stranger was over hearing the conversation of the Tuck and Winnie. A good example is "It was good. So good, in fact, that through it all, not one of them notied that the man they had passed on the road, the man inthe yellow suit, had crept up to the bushes by the stream and heard it all, the whole fantastic story. Nor did they notice taht he was following now, beside the road far behind, his mouth, above the thin gray beard, turned ever so slightly toward a smile." This quote is about the stranger hearing the converstion.

__Chapter Nine and Ten__ 1. Babbitt explained the Tuck's home in a few paragraghs. Almost the whole chapter was about the Tuck's home. For expample, in this quote "Beyond this was the bedroom, where a vast and tipsy brass bed took up most of the space, but there was roon beside it for the washstand with the lonely mirror, and opposite its foot a cavernous oak wardrobe from which leaked the faint smell of camphor." This is only a paragraph and there are even more paragraphp that has the descriptions of the Tuck's home. 2. I think the spring of water could not really be the perfect answer for the solution. The Tuck could have done something else wrong that they did not notice. If they really did something wrong, that could have been one of the possibilities. If they didn't do anything wrong they could think of, then the only possibility could be the boiling spring water.

__Chapter Fourteen__ Jesse suggests WInnie to wait untill she becomes seventeen like Jesse and drink the water in the forest. And they could marry and enjoy their life. Jesse says that there is life to enjoy not to suffer in your life. I also think Jesse is correct, but in some way I do not agree on him. This qoute is on page seventy two. I think Winnie would say no even though she adored Jesse. It is because when Angus Tuck talked to her on the pond, he told not to drink the water whatever happens to her. Even though Winnie liked Jesse as soon as she saw her the first time, she wouldn't want to drink the water. When she heard the story Mae, Miles, and Jesse told, they told how miserable they were except for Jesse. If she heard that, she wouldn't want to feel miserable like the Tucks. If I were Winnie, I wouldn't wait till seventeen and to drink the water. I mean I wouldn't even want to drink the water from the woods anyways. It would be boring. We would have no friends except for people who drank the water from the boiling spring. Like what Miles said, the people would think I am a freak that could live forever and that I am a ghost. I would be very lonely and maybe even wanted to die. Even though you try to die, you wouldn't be able to die anyways. It would be such a miserable life for me to live during the time.

__Chapter Fifteen & Sixteen__ 1. The man in the yellow suit seems to be in a hurry and talks suspiciously to the Fosters to trade with the forest and for finding Winnie. He talks suspiciously because in this chapter he said that he had followed where the Tucks were taking Winnie. The Fosters thought ...Why didn't he report it right away? Why did he follow them? What did he want to know about? What is so good about the forest? He also seemed to be in a hurry to find Winnie to get the forest. I think that because the Fosters only got to talk once. He, the stanger, talked the most. I mean he talked the whole time!!! It felt like he didn't even breathe while he was talking. It felt like he was just talking on and on forever never ending. 2. The constable seems to act lazy. If feels like he is lazy because it said that he was fat and he freaked out when the man in the yellow jaunty suit told him that he hat to go twenty miles north. The constable became lazy because there weren't any crime like this in Treegap fo fifteen years. He could have still kept his job and get payed for without being lazy. He wouldn't have had to work at all if there were no crime like this since the start of Treegap. He is also suspicious to the man and the Fosters. It is because the Fosters gave away the forest right away even though they had the forest since the start of Treegap. Also he was suspicious and annoyed to the man. He was suspicious because he wanted to know how he persuaded the Fosters to trade with the forest. Also he was annoyed because he rousted him up in the early morning and also he was bossing him around. He didn't like to be bossed around. If I was the constable, first I would arrest the man in the jaunty yellow suit. After taking him to the office, I would research about the man and how he did all the things he have done and get rid of the suspicion. It would sound like torturing, but I'm not trying to torture but trying to know all the things that are suspicious to me, the constabel, the Fosters, and everybody!!!

Chapter Seventeen & Eighteen 1. Miles didn't take his family to the spring. It was because he first didn't know then about the water in the forest. When the family left him behind and thought that he sold his soul to the devil, he first didn't know if the water was one of the variables. I wouldn't have brought my family to the boiling spring water. It is because when I serveyed my family, they didn't want to live forever. Also, even though they wanted to experience to live forever, I thought they would regret about living forever. If they do not like it and want to live forever, well too bad for them.

__Chapter Nineteen & Twenty__ 1. I do not agree on the man in the yellow jaunty suit. If he sells the water, of course he is going to get rich, but if he sells them, nobody in this world would be dead except for people who didn't drink the water. This problem might be very harmful later on to the Earth. It is because the population would increase. If the population increases the pollution would get worser. Also, because of the global warming, the climates might change faster in time than usual. The hole in the Ozone layer is still getting smaller, but if the pollution gets worser, the hole could get bigger. Also, the man doesn't know why they work that way and how they could be helpful. He is just trying to get rich!!!! 2. Angus Tuck looks very scared because the constable said that if the man in the yellow suit dies, Mae would have to be sent to the gallow where you get hanged. I think Angus looks that way because he thinks the constable would find out about the water in the forest. He doesn't want anybody to know except that the man knows already.

__Chapter 21__ I think Winnie is feeling very sorry to Mae because this all happened because of her. This is what she thinks but I kind of think so too. I also think it's Mae's fault to! It is because she didn't have told her in the woods and told her in the house, this wouldn't have happened. Also she didn't have to kidnap her. It could also be Winnie's fault because she could have forged Mae not to take her. Also it was her fault that she felt like wanting to stay with the Tuck. I mean the Tuck adored them, but she should have warned them that she had to go to her house right at morning or at least at midnight. I was once in this situation, but I didn't feel like Winnie. I felt good. I once kille mosqitoes and flies. In my old house there were flies everywhere. So i killed them because they were distractions to me. They made buzzing sounds and couldn't make me concentrate. I felt very good about killing the flies that I was flying! I had another situation like this when I felt like Winnie but when other people blamed me. In library class this week, Mrs.Borner was reading us a book by Dr. Seuss. After we were done, Jee suddenly scram. It looked like a centapede. We first thought that it was dead, but it was moving. Jessica K. brought a tissue and covered it. I thought everybody meant to kill it so I stepped on it. That instant, everybody was blaming me. They said that they were trying to save it. I didn't know that because nobody told me that. Also there were no windows to send it outside. I mean, everybody is going to kill it anyways. I felt very bad for getting blamed for. I felt like crying, but if I cry then I am going to get stupid infront of everybody to cry because of that. I felt really bad.

__Chapter 22__ I think Pa thinks this way because he might not want Winnie to risk her life to save Mae. Even though Mae gets rescued while Winnie tricks the constable, Mae will still be followed by the constable. Also, Pa likes Winnie and doesn't want "her" to go to the gallow. Also Mae is still going to live in the forest anyways. The Tucks love and adore Winnie. Why would they want her to go to jail? I wouldn't want Winnie to go to jail because of Mae. First of all, it was Mae's fault that she told the story in the woods. She should have got suspicion about the man while they passed him. Also Mae shouldn't have turned on the music box even though she had to clam Winnie down. Then the man wouldn't have followed the melody of the music box. So I think Winnie shouldn't stand up to go to jail instead of Mae. Winnie's parents and grandmother would be sad and would tell the constable to kill the Tucks (maybe not that violent).