5D+Jasmine+Lee

=Prologue=

//Question #1// If I could live forever, staying at the age I am now, I would not choose to live forever. I have a few reasons to back this answer up. First of all, as you go up in grades to middle school, high school, and university, you probably won't grow a lot, and people would think you are a 'very small kid,' a 'midget,' or possibly a kid who is sick. If you tell them your AGE, they will think that they are standing next to some famous genious. It'll be hard to explain exactly what was wrong with you.My other reason is, well, if you watched the first movie of Pirates of the Carribean, you would know. Living forever isn't always good. Maybe if you just wanted to die, it might be because of a tragedy, because of your problems, or because if you are very, very sick, and you know dying will ease your pain. You would never get a second chance you just went ahead in life, which is the only choice WE have and the choice I would choose even if we could live forever. For people having birthdays, they would just become the same age and it would be worthless to have other birthdays. I would just choose going on, and I think that's the best way to live, instead of staying the same age all your life and never dying. It's like waking up and it being impossible to sleep again, no matter how you try. That's how I feel about having those two choices: Being able to live forever and staying the age you are now, and living your life like the rest of us normal people. =)

//Question #2:// In the prologue, the author describes three things that happen on one day and seem unrelated. One of those three things is that at dawn, Mae Tuck started on a journey riding his horse to go to the woods on the edge of the village Treegap to meet her two sons, like she did every 10 years. The second thing was that at noon, Winnie Foster thought of leaving the home that her family owned, the Treegap wood, because she was losing her patience. At sunset on that very day, someone was at the Fosters' gate. It was a stranger looking for someone, but the stranger didn't tell who the 'someone' he was looking for was.

=Chapter 1=

//Question #1// Babbit gives her views about land ownership. She thinks owning land is pretty odd once she came to think of it. She wonders whether if when you own land, you own the whole part-under it and over it. Maybe you just own the part of land you can build on. She doesn't end of telling which one she thinks is right, but I have my own opinions on her's. I think you own the land all the way to the center of this planet (not that you could use it well). I also think that it might be KIND of overacting if the landowner does not let people trespass under the grass (not that they would have any way of knowing). I feel as if land ownership should have limited owning access =). The more you buy, the less other people can, and the less the goverment can set up places like national parks. If you buy more than you need, its useless, but if you buy as much as you need and go away, you will be satisfied with what you have, and at the same time you will let others buy the extra land that you might be able to afford, but don't buy because of your kindness. =D

//Question #2// Although we are not told, I have a few ideas about why it may been a disaster if the spring had been discovered by people. Possibly, if you drank from that spring, you would be able to live forever. It is just my idea because after the question you asked in the prologue, I couldn't stop wondering why you would ask that question. It probably has something to do with the book (you wouldn't pick a question out of thin air) and when this question came out, it seemed perfectly clear to me. There is also a possibility that if you touch the sacred water, you would know all the secrets of the dark woods- though I have nothing to back this up.

=Chapter 2 & 3=

//Question #1// I took a few minutes to contemplate Winnie's quote at the top of page 15. If I could start fresh, making my own decisions about my life, some changes I would make are where I would live and my voice. I would live in California instead of Korea because...well...almost all of my best friends are there. Not that this place doesn't have alot of my friends, but there's so much action going on there. As I email some of my friends there, it makes me sad because they describe all the cool things they do. I would love to see my best friend win the election for student council president. I would be excited to go to my friend Tianru's birthday party and good-bye party combined. I would want to see my buddy Asuka leave for Japan and say bye one last time. I know my friends would like my new personality, and I really like my new personality (comparing it to 3rd grade's) because I have become alot more social instead of shy and timid. My friends in 4th and 5th grade created this whole new me, and I am so glad they did. Now, it is not too often that I ever shut up! I also enjoy the fact that I still do over-average work (for writing, anyways) and am not shy or timid and am not the one in class that does not have any friends and eats alone.

Don't get me wrong. I love my voice. It's just that sometimes people think or tease me because of my voice being boy-ish. Most of the time, on the phone, people think that I am a boy, and as for my mom's friends, they think they called the wrong number or that my brother has grown up so much! Here is how one of the phone calls went on the phone with my mom's friend.

Me: Hello? Mom's Friend: Oh hi David! You grew so much! You can already talk? That is splendid! You already sound like a grown up boy! Me: ... Mom's Friend: Can I talk to your mom? Me: I'm not David. I'm Jasmine. Mom's Friend: (surprised) Oh, really?!? Sorry Jasmine! It's just...Your voice...Is like a grown up boy.

Which ends the call. David is my brother, and if someone thinks you sound like a grown-up boy, it usually means that your voice is much deeper. My brother's voice is pretty high, so I got the hint. This is another episode of what happened when I called someone, and his father picked up.

Me: Hello? Boy's Dad: Oh, hi Kevin! Do you need to talk to 'boy'? Me: I'm not Kevin. Boy's Dad: Then who are you? Me: I'm Jasmine. Boy's Dad: No you're not! You're Kevin. Me: I'm Jasmine Lee. Boy's Dad: Reeeeeeeally? Are you suuuuuure? Me: Yeah. I'm really sure. Boy's Dad: Oh. Ok. 'Boy' isn't here right now, but can you call later at about 9:00 PM? He'll be back by then. Me: Okay. Bye.

That phone call was very upsetting. Even more upsetting, a week later when I called the boy again and his father picked up AGAIN, I got the same results, even though I tried a higher voice this time. I found out that my voice was like Kevin's, and after that whenever a mom or dad picked up the phone when I called someone, I used my low voice and pretended to be Kevin =). I would still prefer a different voice so that people actually KNOW that I'm a girl!

=Chapter 4=

//__Question #1:__// As the stranger approaches the Foster gate, Winnie is completely focused on catching fireflys.

//Question #2// Winnie's grandmother comes down the path to the cave because she wanted to know who Winnie was talking to.

//Question #3// Winnie and her grandmother have different views about what is making the music. When she hears the tinkly little song at the beginning, Winnie thinks it is a music box. Her grandmother thinks its elves.

//Question #4: What is your first impression of this stranger? Make a prediction regariding th// My first impression of this stranger is that I think he is pretty good/not bad. I have not figured out a lot about him and who he is, but I think he will come out many times in this book and is one of the main characters. I think is one of the 'good guys' and when detective work is needed, I think he will be here at the job. I also think that he knows the history of many things, like the tinkly song that Winnie and her grandmother heard (though they had different opinions on what it was).

=Chapter 5=

//__Question # 1:__ In this chapter Jesse refuses to let Winnie drink from the bubbling spring. Why does he do that? Would you have done the same thing or would you have let her drink from it? Explain your opinion in a complete paragraph.// In this chapter Jesse refuses to let Winnie drink from the bubbling spring. He does that because if you drink from the bubbling spring, you would never die, never grow older, and be immortal. I would have done the same as Jesse because if everyone had the option to drink something and become immortal, everyone would. He made excuses that the spring as full of dirty water and bugs and weird stuff =P. I think it wasn't good that Winnie caught Jessie drinking the spring water. Of course, if it was me, I wouldn't be able to do anything about it because I wouldn't have known that Winnie was watching me. I wouldn't have acted so nervous though, although it was impossible to have an excuse for the smart Foster child.

=Chapter 6= //Question #1:// I think Winnie did not do something when they came across a stranger along the road because she did not know what she had gotten herself into and she couldn't realize what she had to do, because whenever she visualized this event, it was not like this, so she didn't know what to do, and if the kidnapping had gone the way she thought kidnapping was supposed to go, she would have known what to do that minute because her constant wondering and dreaming. If I was being kidnapped and came across a stranger along the road, I wouldn't have done something either. Why? It's quite hard to explain...err...I would feel a type of tendency to find out how it felt to be kidnapped? I mean...I don't think ANYONE in our class has ever gotten kidnapped...I think. It would be cool to know how it was like, and also these people do not seem too horrible. They do not just bellow, "SHUT UP!!!" at Winnie, but implore her to stop crying, like they're desperate. If the story was the other way around, like the way Winnie thought kidnapping was , I would probably think twice. I also noticed that the stranger had THE SAME CLOTHES AS THE STRANGER AT THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY~!!!! Maybe THAT had something to do with it! //Question #2:// The figurative language Babbit uses in this quote: //"...though her heart was pounding and __her backbone felt like a pipe full of cold running water__, her head was fiercly calm."// is a simile because she compares two objects using 'like' (or possible as). The author has also used this type of figurative language in the story so far when she says, 'The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, __//**like**//__ the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. (pg.3).' It means that it is the hottest day of the year, or the best time of the year. Another sentence with a similie is this. 'And the earth, owned or not by it's fiery core, would have trembled on it's axis like a beetle on a pin. (pg. 8)' I think this means that the Earth might be overruled by the population or something terrible would happen to it- I tried, I can't guess how!

= = =Chapter 7= //Question #1:// The setting of Tuck Everlasting is in the city of Treegap. There is a house that looks so~ clean and when you look at it, you feel like you just want to ruin it. The grass is spiky and green, and the fence is so tall. There are many cows around this place. Other then that, close by, there is a wood, with a bubblng stream within it. I think there are quite a few fireflys around because Winnie was also once concentrating on catching them, and a stranger said that he used to as well. It is very, very hot and is in August, and until now, I think it is still the first week.

//Question #2:// I think Jesse means that his Pa thought that something caused the spring to make anyone immortal when it drank from the spring. Maybe someone had tried to make all living things who drank from the spring die, so that the world wouldn't populate too much, the world would get a better environment, and humans couldn't be the kings and queens of the world. Accidently, they might have put in a weird chemical which made people immortal. It isn't the BEST plan, and not that reasonable, but it IS possible. =)

Oh yeah! And the year is probably in the 1800s because...err...first of all, it seems like it, and second of all...err...Albert made me see it during snack today, so I can't really GUESS anymore.

=Chapter 8= = = //Question #1:// The 'someone' who overhears the Tucks' secret is the man with the yellow suit and black hat. There are a few examples of the actions of this character creating suspence or tension in the plot throughout the story. One is when he comes to Winnie's house in Chapter 4. When Mae and her grandmother hear the music, and when her grandma says that she heard it before, the man's voice seemed eager and he turned stiff when he asked if they had heard that music before. That seemed PRETTY weird. Also, when Winnie gets kidnapped, why would the man be standing on the road on the way the Tucks' were going? It might have been out of luck...but still...And I think he knew where they were going, although I do not know why he looked surprised- Maybe he expected the granny to be the one kidnapped, or maybe he did not expect so soon, and in THIS chapter, he shows up, and listens to the whole secret-ish story.<<<

=Chapter 9=

Question #1: I think the Tucks talk with bad grammar because they have been alive for about a century because when Mae first asked his age at the beginning of the book, and Jesse said 107 or something, he was probably counting the years he was alive for. He learned english like that about 100 years ago! As for his older brother and his parents, they've been alive LONGER. All the more reason to have worse grammar. I, as you know, feel really weird if I keep seeing grammar mistakes, and I have thought of reasons ahead of time, so I have all these ideas stacked up in my brain =). This shows us more about their personalities and characters because we know that they are kind of 'old-fashioned', and they've lived in the 1600's. *Gasp* THEY'RE ANCIENT, AREN'T THEY?!?!?!?!?!?!That's cool =). Probably, well educated people would not understand them, because they would think that someone would say, "It wouldn't take them more than a minute to get in the pond", rather than "It don't take 'em mor'n a minute to pile into the pond". The cool, rich, mean people with so much vanity would think the Tucks' were insane, and NORMAL people wouldn't, but...come on. Compare the well educated people and the old Tucks'. Even IF the Tucks' were well educated, english changed like a banana getting its peel taken off. They would have been expired.

=Chapter 10= Question #1: How does Babbitt describe the Tuck home? How does that differ from Winnie's home? Your home? Write a complete paragraph. Please incorporate some quotes from the book. Babbit describes the Tuck home by saying it has a lot of furniture that is just put anywhere without careful thought. There are lots of mice and dust, which surprised Winnie. In the kitchen, it was a mess. There were tall towers of dishes that were stacked, and the Tucks obviously didn't care whether the small plates were at the bottom and the big ones were at top. On the kitchen walls, there were tons of stuff, like food, cooking utensils, and...a bathtub? Anyways, next they went to the parlor, where all the furniture looked as if it were just thrown into the room with no care, no thinking about what anyone was doing. Then...ARG!!! So many rooms in this house. ANOTHER room is the bedroom with a HUGE bed which looks and feels as if it is not going to last for a long time. There is a loft too! 'The table with the drawer that housed the mouse was pushed off, also alone, into a far corner, and three armchairs and an elderly rocker stoo about aimlessly, like strangers at at party, ignoring each other.' That quote uses a similie and explains that in the room, the table with the drawer in which the mouse at the beginning was at. Babbit says that the table with the drawer was in a corner, and the other furnitures are just, well, ANYWHERE, and they are just put ANYWHERE. What is weird is that MAE WAS PROUD OF HER HOUSE! Compared to Winnie's spotless house, this house is quite disturbing. As the Foster's house was so clean, having the grass 'cut to the quick', having women not giving the house a chance to have fun, or get dirty, for once. They had to do the impossible and keep everything perfect around the house. Compared to my house...well...It's not TOO different from my room. Let's just say that =). Compared to the rest of our house, it's not too different. I mean, it's not too different from the Foster's house either. It's in the middle. Always **__cluttered__** because my brother dirties it up, but good locations for furniture. =)

=Chapters 11 & 12= Question #1: On page 59, Tuck means everything is going to waste, something horrible will happen, or everything is going to fall apart, like a completed puzzle getting stuffed back into the box, when he says, "I got a feeling this whole thing is going to come apart like wet bread."

Question #2 I know! There are SOOOO many examples of figurative language in Chapter 12. One is, "The sky was a ragged blaze of red and pink and orange, and its double trembled on the surface of the pons like color spilled from a paintbox." I found that on page 60. It means that the sky was so colorful, with lots of **__vivid__** colors. "The sun's dropping fast now, a soft red sliding egg yolk, and already to the east there was a darkening purple." That includes personification AND a metaphor. The personification means that the sun is going down quickly, or the sun is setting. The metaphor explaining how the sun looks like a soft red sliding egg yolk. It is red because it is the sun, soft because it is far away and LOOKS soft, and is an egg yolk because it looks as round and deep as an egg yolk. "The rowboat slipped from the bank then, silently, and glided out, tall water grasses whispering away from its sides, releasing it. (pg. 62)" This is an example of personification. I know this because water grasses obviously can't whisper, right? It means that there was a small sound of the long strands of grass bristling. "But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born." That means dying is a part of every life- I don't ESPECIALLY know if he's talkin' 'bout 'imself. (I'm talking the way Tuck is~!) "We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road. (pg. 64)" Aha! That explains what I was wondering about one sentence ago! Tuck just said that they 'couldn't live without dying so they couldn't say that they were living.' He said that they were just like 'rocks in the road' because they are there, but he says they aren't living. This simile was quite hard to understand. OOOOOOOOOOOOOH! Here's another one! This one is a good one..."The rowboat drifted at last to he end of the pond, but now its bow bumped into the rotting branches of a fallen tree that thrust thick fingers into the water." That was a really cool metaphor. I would have NEVER thought of using those two together! The thick fingers are the branches! Cool =). It is saying that when the boat crashed into the tree, the trees branches moved and its branches got pushed into the water.

=Chapter 13 & 14=

Question #1: I think Tuck's feelings toward life is not too glad or happy. He thinks that his family isn't really living. He says 'You can't have living without dying.' Thats a weird thought. He means that he and his family are just there, not living, just like rocks. That's kind of offensing to his family and to himself. He thinks that they aren't living a life because you HAVE to die in a life, but since he can't die, it's not a life. I don't actually believe that. I believe this: If you are living, you're alive, and you're a live person, you have a life. =P

His feelings are sad and solemn. Mae, who always tries to look on the bright side, is totally different from her husband. Her husband always tries to pick the bad stuff out of the things that happen and is always sad about everything. Mae, who's fate is the same, tries to make herself feel happy. For example, when the Tucks' have a family renunion every 10 years, Mae is happy to see her children and husband again as a family. On the other hand, Tuck complains about traveling, saying nothing inparticular about his family. Mae still wants life to be what it normally is, though. Mae seems to Jesse seems to be lonely, but isn't grumpy like his dad. He just wants company once in a while. Though, when he DOES get company, he gets a little frantic and hysterical =). Jesse is different from his dad because: 1. Jesse is a LOT more active 2. Jesse shows his feelings better (Even though his dad basically only ever has one feeling, unless he's sleeping) 3. Jesse shows care for other people That's good for a person who can never die, right? Miles seems helpful, but longing to return to normal because he lost his wife and children, which was a terrible loss for him. I DO feel sorry for him. The only similar thing about everyone here is that if all of them could go back in time to before they drank from the spring, I'm REALLY sure they wouldn't. I mean ALL OF THEM, right?

Question #2 If the Tucks are everlasting and still wandering the earth, but was in our town this year, I might see them at the stationary store next to our house. Its kind of deserted and seems old and has a lot of stuff that are just stacked that don't have anything to do with stationary, like books and food, but that's on sale too =). It's like an old shabby shack, so the Tucks will most probably spend their time there. For an apartment or house, there is an apartment near by with big rooms, but is dark and spooky. They could pile stuff in there, and keep clothes they don't need, and have mice...I would probably know the Tucks were the Tucks because Angus doesn't ever smile, Jesse looks the age 17, and Miles 22.and Mae is once described to have been 'comfortable looking," ''grasping her brooch that fastened the shawl' and "her face bleak". I would guess that Mae isn't the thinest person, but when she's surprised or shocked, her face doesn't go pale...It becomes dark! In my town, they would probably be looking at the piles of stuff in the stationary store with fascination to see if they could make something like it to sell. They might even might buy little stuff after browsing, possibly food.

=Chapter 15= //Question #1// We learn that the man in the yellow suit is not nice, as I thought he would be. For example, he has alot of vanity. He is KIND of blackmailing the Fosters' for the wood with the little girl, Winnie Foster. The man thanked himself for everything, saying "Isn't it fortunate I was a witness?" and other nasty things. Another example is that he just let himself in the house. That wasn't that nice, was it? He just barged in, basically. THAT'S NOT GOOD MANNERS. Maybe he thought that the house was accesible to him because he had precious information about the location of Winnie Foster and the Fosters' wouldn't mind at all because they were frantic, searching for the lost girl.

//Question #2// I think he wants to make this deal with the Fosters' because he wants something from the wood, which, obviously, is the spring.

//Question #3// I think Babbit didn't write any dialogue for the Fosters because the focus is on how untrustworthy, greedy, and vain the stranger sounds. Anyone listening to him would be suspicious, thinking, "Why is this guy so interested in our wood?" I don't think the Fosters will say no too easily though. From the way they heard it from the man in the yellow suit, the Tucks seem to want to do something suspicious and cruel to Winnie, maybe murder her, and if I hadn't read the whole story and adventure of Winnie traveling along side the Tucks, entering a cluttered house that was accesible to her, though she did not know this place, and why she was kidnapped. The Fosters would AUTOMATICALLY think that this yellow guy was telling the truth, and that they needed to get their daughter back...QUICK!

=Chapter 17= Question #1: Winnie's conversation with Miles was similar to her conversation with Angus because Miles compliments her when he can and is delighted to show her how to do things that she has never tried. It was different because Miles talks simply and doesn't put any effort into talking about what he is and coming up with new topics to chatter about. He is confident in himself and believes that anything he says will not be too bad. Angus uses short phrases, absorbed in his task, not seeming to know exactly what to talk about. Throughout the book, he gets more comfortable with Winnie, but he could never talk as aimlessly as Miles and Jesse could.

Question #2: Miles didn't have his family drink from the spring because, first of all, they hadn't known that the spring granted eternal life while they were still living on the farm. After he found out about the spring, he considered searching for his long-lost family, and after finding them, he could ask them to drink from the spring! That wasn't a good idea either, because all of them would be so old...The mom would be about forty years old and there wouldn't even be a big difference between the age of the children and their father. If I was in his shoes, or in his situation, I would have done the same thing. Why? Well...Even if I covered every place in the world to find my family, the mother would've most probably still been freaked out by me, and the children would've either ALSO been freaked out, or scared because they forgot who I was, and was creeped out by the fact that a stranger asked them to become immortal and live with him. (When I say "me" and "I" when I explain what I would have done if I was in his shoes, I mean Miles. ㅡㅡ)

=Chapter 22 & 23=

//Question #1:// The plan to help Mae escape depends a lot on Miles. Miles has to take apart the window piece by piece so that Mae could crawl out. Jesse is just worried because since the constable checks on Mae frequently, he'll notice quickly that his only prisoner has escaped. They'll start searching for her, stopping at nothing. Winnie then volunteers to help out. She wanted to 'make a change in the world', didn't she? She wanted to help the Tucks, because she liked them. Her part of the plan was to get under the sheets after Miles got his mom out, so that it seemed like Mae was still there, still sleeping, still imprisoned. After that, Miles would carefully put the window on again, and then flee with his family. I think this is a good plan, because it is carefully thought, and clever. I don't think I'd be so happy about it if it weren't for Winnie's idea. It wouldn't be so carefully thought and clever if everyone in the whole town of Treegap found out that a prisoner had escaped 3 minutes after she did. There would be anger, and everyone would be running around frantically, I bet. Winnie's idea just kept it going smoothly, right? The one flaw in the whole plan is that Winnie isn't that big. I know Winnie said that the constable wouldn't be able to look clearly because of the dark, but what if he had a flashlight, or if Winnie was just TOO small to compare Mae to? I don't like playing the what-if game either, but there are endless possibilities. Overall, I think it is an excellent idea and I am finally believing the saying that old people are very wise...and smart. =)

//Question #2:// In Chapter 23, one emotion that Winnie is experiencing is impatience. It doesn't say it straight from the book, but I can tell because it says, 'Once she had hidden Jesse's bottle in a bureau drawer, there was nothing to do but wait.' That clearly explains that she is thinking about Jesse's bottle- about when she herself becomes 17, that she'll drink from it and run away to get married with Jesse. Unfortunately, she hasn't reached that age yet, so she says that the only thing left to do was wait. Oh, it DOES say it directly from the book! =) The next sentence is, 'In the hall outside her room, the grandfather's clock ticked deliberately, unimpressed with anyone's impatience, and Winnie found herself rocking to the rhythm- forward, back, forward, back, tick, tock, tick, tock.' That is true personification! It means that Winnie was so boring, or the clock 'didn't care' about Winnie having nothing to do, and just ticking. Winnie found herself rocking to the rhythm...That means that she was probably tapping her foot, maybe standing up and stepping forward and backward in turn, and just keeping the rhythm of the clock. Another emotion is guilt. Yes, the perfect little Foster girl feels guilty! Whatever could she have done...! Well, this is what. She didn't do it yet, but she knew that she was about to commit a terrible crime. She was about to help a prisoner. She knew that it was forbidden, no matter what her family didn't say. Her family never thought she'd do something as dumb as that...Well, if they found out what a dumb thing she did, they'd be dumbfounded =P. 'Beneath her excitement, she was filled with guilt. For the second time in three short days-though it seemed more than that- she was about to do something she knew was forbidden. She didn't have to ask.' Yep, I just explained that. She was excited to go help the Tucks and save the world, but she was also guilty because she was going to do something that, by all means, wasn't allowed.

I have felt these kind of emotions SOOOOO many times! For example, in January, I took the SCAT, whose results would show if I would be able to go to Johns Hopkins Talent Search, a summer school in America. I was so impatient! There was nothing to do but wait though...Just wait. Of course, for that I only waited 2 weeks (if I had waited 7 years, it would've been a rip-off) and Winnie had to...Not suffer...Wait for a little longer, but it's almost the same, right?

I am deliberately not trying to go too far back in time...but for the guilty one, my example is when I was in 1st grade. While I was still in California, we also had a library. I had borrowed a book in the Laura Ingalls series, and then forgot to bring it before the summer break had started. I had worried, and had not felt guilty. The beginning of 2nd grade was when I started to feel guilty. I brought the book back into the library with a smile plastered on my face, not because I had forced it on there, but because I had just wanted it to be there. The look on the librarian's face made the smile slip off my face. "We thought that the book was gone, so we took it off our catalog. Jasmine, just keep it or donate it or sell it or something. We don't need it here anymore." THAT made me sad. The thing worse than that was that it happened again when I forgot it in 3rd grade and brought it back in 4th grade.

=In Chapter 24~Epilogue= = = = = Question #1: The weather changes at the beginning of the chapter to the end of the chapter by, first of all, being SOOO hot and burning and seems like nothing is moving;or alive. At the end of this miraculous story, the weather is not too good, not too exciting, not too fun. There were still a few weeks until autumn, but it seemed as if there wouldn't be any...fun anymore.

Question #2 The weather in this chapter is connected to the major events in the chapter because when Miles, Jesse, Tuck, and Winnie go to save Mae, no one came running out because the thunder and lightning disguised the sound and was so loud that almost no one heard Miles trying to loosen the window, put it back, and stuff. " He grasped the bars of the window firmly, ready to pull, and stood poised. "What is he waiting for?" thought Winnie. "Why doesn't he..." Then - a flash of lighting and, soon after, a crack of thunder. In the midst of the noise, Miles gave a mighty heave. But the window did not budge." Although the window did not move, it was worth it, right? "Again a flash of lightning, and this time a crashing burst of noise from the sky. Miles yanked. The window sprang free, and still grasping it by the bars, he fumbled backward off the box. The job was done." So, thanks to the lightning, the sound was covered up and no one heard, and with no background noise, I think it would've been terribly loud, don't you think?

Question #3 I think Mae and Tuck were sad about the spring and though that THAT was the reason for Winnie not coming back. They weren't there when Winnie received the tiny bottle from Jesse, and it doesn't matter now since Winnie did her unselfish deed of her life and used it on a toad. They were looking forward to meeting her again, weren't they?

I feel...a mixture of sadness and excitement. I feel excited because the Tucks will be able to keep their secret better since no one else can find the spring now, for it has been dug up. Even IF the yellow man was still alive, he wouldn't have his 'forest' anymore, would he?That's good too, right? I also feel sad, which is kind of peculiar. I longed to know how Winnie would find the Tucks again and whether there'd be a happy ever after. There's no more possibilities if the spring is dug up.

=Tuck Book/ Movie Comparison=

1. One major difference between the book and the movie is that at the end of the movie, the wood wasn't gone and the 'touch-me-not' house wasn't gone and Winnie wasn't buried in the cemetary! Maybe that's 3 small differences...But they're all related and they're all important, right? =) Another huge, out of control difference is that the plans were WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY different from each other. In the book, they open a window and get Mae out, with Winnie in her place before the Tucks leave, but in the movie, the man in the house (constable?) runs away when Jesse and Miles shows a 'trick' with their being immortal. As the constable (?) watches and runs away, Winnie unlocks Mae AND Tuck, and they run away in a carriage. A third difference is that when Winnie was being taken back to her home after being with the Tucks, the CONSTABLE didn't hear them (or maybe it wasn't ONLY the constable). Almost the whole town was there in the movie. In the BOOK, the only witness was the constable who was "just in time to see everything".

2. I think the movie had the difference of the touch-me-not house and the woods not being gone and WInnie not in the right place because it would've been hard to show that in a movie (I think) and I think that the people who made this movie wanted to show the changes over time from when Jesse left her and then came back.

The difference in the plans on trying to get Mae (and, in the movie, Tuck) out between the book and movie are probably different because, again, it would be hard to show all the details, ESPECIALLY in the dark. Also, the plan in the movie was also a bit funny ;). That was a good idea too, and showed that there were more possibilities (though I don't think they were aiming for that).

In the book, the constable is the eyewitness for the crime Mae has committed- killing the man with the yellow suit. In the movie, the whole town (?) are the eyewitnesses. I think that this difference was made because it becomes much more clear that Mae needs to go to the gallows. I mean, I have no offense against the constable being the only one watching the crime being committed, but...let's just say that Mae still has the shotgun in her hand. If there is an army of people, it isn't going to be too easy bonking everyone on the head, is it? =P

3. I liked the book better because it had a better way of threading up the words and while reading, I could visualize how it would be. OBVIOUSLY, it was a way longer 'movie' in my head then on the screen, but who cares? Its not like its going to be a real movie. //Tuck Everlasting, the Remake by Jasmine Lee (5D)//. Ha, but I don't think its going to happen. The movie kind of annoyed me because I had a perfect visualization in my head, and the movie made me think that my PERFECT video was terrible and off balance. Okay, I admit. My visualization wasn't PERFECT. It was....good! I don't have a problem with watching the movie, though. It gets me all excited and shows me there are other possibilities rather than just one exact story. One exact story as in if you use another word, idea, or topic that is not from the book, you get sued. Having more than just one exact story is good, right =) ? The bad thing about it is that I lose my visualization and later on, I get the idea that we're ALWAYS gonna have a movie to watch after the book, and I don't imagine well anymore.>> =(