5A-KevinTuckResponse

=**//Tuck Everlasting Response//**=


 * //Prologue//**

If I had a opportunity to live forever, I would like to be at the age right now. For advantage the reason is that if my body doesn't change forever I'd still be healthy, athletic, and could be active. Also if I could live forever, I could make a world record for living the most and forever. That would make me proud of myself and makes me available to make other records. If I live forever at the age of 10, if also would have a advantage of that I don't have to marry (I don't want to marry in my personal opinion). It also would make me famous of living forever. If I find water that makes other people to live forever, I think I would give it to my parents in first, Mr. Sickles second, and my best friends which would be James and Justin Park in 5D.

//**Chapter1**//

I think Natalle Babbit, the author of this book is trying to talk about who would be the owner and an ownership. As I read this selection, I think this story will be concentrated on the three strange things that happened on the first week of September. Also I think the main subject for now, //what would you do if you could live forever// would be concentrated too and I think that will be one of the theme in the book. I just think that this book will be one of the best book I have ever read.


 * //Chapter2//**

The quote tells me that it is happening at Mae Tuck's house. I think Tuck, Mae Tuck's husband doesn't really care about their sons. Their sons, who are Miles and Jesse could be only seen at 10 years after they meet. Tuck also gets mad and goes back to sleep, but Mae Tuck gets ready to got their sons. I think Tuck is a man that doesn't care about his sons and is a bad example for everybody in the world.

//**Chapter3**//

Winnie Foster, the only daughter in the Foster's, was hanging around at the back ground of their house when lunch was coming soon. She was sitting on the soft green grass and this action represents that she was bored. Also she was talking to a big and a fat frog about her annoyance, her boredness, and the way their parents gaurd her from getting too far.

//**Chapter4**//

At the same day, but at noon, a stranger came up to the Foster's gate and tried to find someone, but he didn't tell who. The stranger first talked to Winnie and Winnie replied back. Winnie who is a little clever girl answers the questions at the just right rate. Also I wonder what will happen at the next day and I will try to think what they were trying to do with the //what do you want to do if you could live forever?//


 * //Chapter5//**

Jesse refuses to let Winnie drink the water coming up from the bubbling spring. When Jesse says to don't drink it I would also have done the same thing as what Jesse stopped Winnie drinking the water. The reason is if Winnie drank the water, and something really bad happens, then it's the situation that would be "OH NOOOOO!". Also when the Foster's found Winnie dead, then the Tuck family will find themselves guilty and embarrassed for their ancestors. I wouldn't like anyone die nor being my family guilty and embarrassed of my ancestor.

//**Chapter6**//

1.)No I don't really think their is a pipe filled with cold water. I also think the meaning of this phrase "pipe filled with cold water" is that she is very scared and cold. I also tried to find two, but I only found one which is "For her part, Winnie now that the running was over, began to comprehend what was happening, and with the comprehension //her throat closed and her mouth went dry as paper//(page34). The part I made it italic, is the one I chosed for Natalie Babbit's extremely terrific describing of that situation. I also think it means by she couldn't say any word and it was too impossible to speak at that moment.

2.)I think Winnie didn't cry for help to the stranger that who came up yesterday afternoon becaus he might isn't a honest person and he also might take Winnie back to her home and be punished for getting out. If I was Winnie I also wouldn't call her for help too because it would be some fun for having a wonderful, but I wouldn't try to cry because I am a glorious boy ( just kidding).

//**Chapter7**//

I think what Jesse is trying to say is that his dad was a scientist that was mad. During that time, he was having a new experiment. However, when he failed to finish his new experiment, he got mad, he got OTL, and got angry that he crushed his experiment. Also when he crushed his new experiment the liquids all spoiled the new precious tree. When the tree got colorish, some liquid came out and when their family drank some of it, they had an enternal life.


 * //Chapter8//**

The person who easdropped the conversation of the Tuck's family and Winnie was the stranger who was at the Foster's gate yesterday afternoon. He first knew that it was a worth of try to follow Winnie who met her at yesterday afternoon. However, when he lost his way to follow Winnie he just waited for a sound. When he heard the music box turning on, he immediatly followed and easdropped the whole conversation. I also predict that the stranger will be a person who will try and want to drink the WATER that makes him have a enternal life because he went out the forest with a satisfied eye and a smile. UH OH ( I wonder what will come next).


 * //Chapter9 & Chapter10//**

1.) Natalle Babbit describes the Tuck's house as a normal, messy, and homely little house. When she described about normal, she described it as a normal house by showing the order that the rooms came in. I think Natalle Babbit lived in a house that the kitchen first, parlor with furnitures, and a room with a bed. When she described the Tuck's house as messy, she described it as the furniture with loose and sloping age, was helter-skelter, a mossy fallen log, the ashes from last winter in the fireplace. In their bedroom, she described it as the vast, tipsy brass bed and the lonely mirror in the restroom with a cavernous oak wardrobe. In Winnie's house it was squeecking clean, no dusts, or any other objects with dusts. In my house, we have clean rooms, but our house isn't squee-cking clean and has a little dust on the corners and other places that we can't see.

2.) I always thought they were cursed because NOBODY in our world had an eternal life in our history. Also when I saw "//Pirates of Carribean the Curse of the Black Pearl"//, one of the main character's ship's crews had a curse that they couldn't feel pain, hunger nor the taste of food. In fact, they would become skeletons that are invinsable under the moonlight. In order to destroy this curse, they had to gather all the aztec gold and scrape a person named - Turner with a knife. I always thought that if a person that has a curse with an eternal life they would want to remove the curse. They would want to feel what would it be like being old. For example, in the book, Miles was married, but when her wife realizes that he doesn't change, she thinks he sold his soul to a demon so she left him.


 * //Chapter11 & Chapter12//**

1.) Angus is upset about having to live forever. If he could, he would like to live like a normal person. Basically he thinks that he is cursed. When Angus talked to Winnie on the pond, he described how life is moving, changing, and growing. He also said that although the water around them looks the same, the water is actually moving and changing. Therefore, he thinks that everything should move on to change. But unfortunately he isn't part of the life cycle. So, when he says "we are just like rocks on the side of the road", he means that they aren't able to have a normal, exciting life.

2.) Similarily, Miles is sad, mournful and melancholy about having eternal life because his family moved away from him since his physical features didn't change. Jesse, on the other hand, is happy that he has eternal life because he doesn't have a family to worry about. Mae is rather awkward and a little concerned becasue her friends were talking about the possiblity of her using black-magic from the witchcraft.

//**Chapter14**//

Jesse suggests that Winnie drink the spring after 6 years and run away. He also suggests that they get married and live happily ever after. But I don't think she will drink the spring and get married after 6 years because, as mentioned in the **//prologue//** response, she would be lonely when her parents die. I would be sad if one of my family members die because I wouldn't be able to talk to him/her and play with him/her. My answer will be that I won't run away, drink the spring, and marry with him. First of all, if I run away I will find myself guilty for running away from my own family. Secondly, if I drink the spring and many years pass, my siblings and my parents would die. I don't want my family members to die and me be left all alone without a family. Finally, I wouldn't want to marry him because if I marry him, I will need to give birth to a son or daughter and that would be really painful because my stomach has to be opened.


 * //Chapter15 & Chapter16//

1**.) The stranger acts very sly and tries to hide a secret because while he was having a conversation with the Fosters', they give their woods to him and then he will find their daughter, Winnie. Also, he is selfish because all he wants is the woods. I predict that he wants to drink the spring in the woods and have an eternal life. That's why he is just saying that he will get Winnie with any care. Another evidence that he ignores people is on 73. "He lifted a hand then, //ignoring// their exclamations,... See! there's the word ignores!! I'm correct!! Also, on 74, he says,"It looks as if I'm the only person in the whole world who knows where to find her." He said that smiling!, but most of all, he is a type of person that ignores people for fun. For example, on 75, it says,"He looked around the three shocked faces, and as if he were seeing nothing there but calm agreement........." The quote means the clue of when he ignores people. He is also very demandive because on 75 he says that their going to do the business **his** way. I think the stranger is acting this way so he can just get the forest right after he takes care of Winnie "Like I CARE way".He is also very impatient to get the forest. Including the spring!! I think he is very eager and really wants the forest. But he also might be acting this way because he is curious and really wants the spring water that he wouldn't even think of Winnie. I also think he is impatient about the constable's talking, the lazyness, and the way he acts ( Very slow like a cow). If I were the constable, I would go along with the stranger with the yellow janty suit because I don't want to get lost. Also, I would not be happy with him because he woke me up in the early morning (Was it dawn?). For example I am suposse to wake up at 6:30, but he woke me up at 5:30.
 * 2**.) The constable wasn't sure if he could believe the stranger or not. On 76~77, the constable suspiciously asked the stranger something. Also, I think the constable thinks the stranger is very ignoring, annoyed, and very suspicious to the constable because the stranger twitched his lips and said that he was going to go ahead and wait for the constable there. However, I think the constable thinks that the stranger is a delidgable because he woke up the constable in the early morning. And the constable is very lazy to do stuff because there aren't that many people in Treegap. He is very lazy, but seriously, the stranger might have a sly characteristic. The constable dosn't like that.


 * //Chapter17 & Chapter18//**

1.) He couldn't take his family because they weren't awake and it would be annoying to his family. He took Winnie because she was the only one that was awake and he wanted to take her to apologize about the kidnapping and taking her to their house. At the pond, they talked about how there can be consequences for having different animals to drink the spring water. I wouldn't take my family to the pond to fish because if I wake them for only breakfast materials and other ingredients, they would be mad at me. Also, if I was his family I wouldn't like him to wake us and go out fishing at dawn for breakfast because I like to sleep.

2.) When Winnie had a conversation, they talked about the life cycle and how would it feel like when you weren't in the cycle and considered as a person. When Winnie had a conversation with Miles, they talked about life too, but neither about the cycle nor out of the cycle. Also the dialogue with Angus didn't give that many specific examples about life, but the converstion with Miles gave many specific examples about life. For instance, when Miles caught a fish, Winnie said to put the fish back to the water and that gave a lesson to Miles that even a animal with less importance still has the right to live.


 * //Chapter19 & Chapter20//**

1.) The stranger with a yellow suit says that Tuck absoulutely shouldn't have the opportunity to have the spring. I think he will sell the spring because he wants to live forever, saying that "'Ignorant people like you should never have this opportunity. It should be kept for…certain others. And for me ." He also said that he is going to sell it at a high price. I think that he is trying to make Tuck angry at him by taking away his knowledge about the spring. For example, if you had an pen and suddenly your best friend snatches it away, and says that from now on he is going to have it, would you feel good about your best friend snatching your property or some materials? It is the same for the Tuck. Tuck feels betrayed when the Stranger insists he take away and use the pond for his own benefit! The stranger's arguments is very self-centered and very illogical for the Tucks to understand. The stranger did not find the spring; he just spied Jesse, Mae, Miles, and Winnie to get information about the spring. The stranger's spying behavior was a horrifying - terrible step, which should not have happened. Because he took an unethical step, I think that the stranger is responsible for all the anger and disturbance he has given to the Tucks.

2.) The quote “But Tuck was not looking back at her. Instead, he was gazing at the body on the ground, leaning forward slightly, his brow drown down, his mouth open a little. It was as if he were entranced and-yes, envious-like a starving man looking through a window at a banquet,” explains how astonished Angus Tuck was after Mae Tuck swung the shotgun into the back of the man's skull.(The moment I read this part, I yelled "NICE SHOT") Angus Tuck opening his mouth represents his action of how he was so astonished. For example, when we scream or shout out loud, our mouth gets as wide as a truck after a suprising news. Tuck is feeling and being sensitive in the same way. Tuck must have felt similar to the constable. The constable did not predict any violent-cruel actions like this. In fact, the constable never saw a crime that was this serious for 15 years. Swinging a shotgun to a man's skull should have been very painful. Tuck who knows Mae's unique-personality and gentle actions, thought she wouldn't do any violent actions. If I were in Angus' shoes, I would have been really suprised that someone like Mae could do such a aggressive thing. Mae looks calm; however, in this situation, she is not, and she is both an angel and devil at the same time. She is an angel because she swung the shotgun at the bad stranger's skull, but she is also a devil because she was being too violent just for only one person, Winnie.


 * //Chapter 21//**

Winnie killed a wasp when she was young. When she was young, she didn't really care about the essence of life in living things. Therefore, she didn't consider bugs as very important. She was in fact galled by the wasp because it was too noisy. She felt concerned, worried, and felt guilty of the wasp lying dead without any action. Mae is going to the gallows becuase the man in the yellow suit died after Mae swung the shotgun to the stranger's skull. Winnie is worried and concerned that Mae might die. However, she has forgotten one thing about Mae: it's that she already drank the spring, so she won't die. That's why when the Tuck's and Winnie were worried, she said that it was going to be no problem. Reluctantly, the constable doesn't know anything about the spring and that if you drink it, you'll never die. I once stepped on a small beehive that fell on the ground when I was 5 years old. I earnestly weren't aware if the bees died or not. However, I feel ashamed of my actions when I was 5 years old, because now I know the importance of life. So I should never do that ever again.


 * //Chapter 22//**

(Angus' Point of View) I think that Angus Tuck won't agree about Winnie helping Mae escaping from the jail because when she tries to make Mae escape and she gets caught by the constable, she would be in a bigger trouble, facing the music. Also she drank the spring and so she'll never die. Therefore, Tuck is not worried about Mae going into the gallows. To him there is no point in saving her because she never can die until the 111111111th century or forever.( He had no point of view until they made the plan to save her.)

(Kevin's Point of View) I think Winnie should not go save Mae. It is clear that Mae drank the spring and that means that she can't die. In addition, the toad came out right before important events happened and all of those events were depressive news to everybody. I think the toad is a sign of danger and a predictor of bad events to come. For example, the toad appeared at Winnie the day before she went to the woods, and the toad appeared when Winnie and Angus Tuck were talking in the rowboat, and it turns out that the stranger took the horse that is eternal too. So bad things happen when the toad appears. Therefore, it would be safe not to save Mae, and stay home.

//**Chapter 23 & 24**//

The stone wall and the iron bar means the jail that Mae is locked. The raw materials that the constable used for the jails are not one of the materials becuase there are no the word in the quote that says stone walls and etc. Also Miles Tuck is a carpenter, therfore, when they go to rescue her, they also will know the methods or how to save her. If they don't know what it is made of, it is much more easier to get caught by the constable. It even shows how seucred the jail is because in other words, the quote means it is stronger than a stone wall and is stronger than an iron bar. Then obviously, the jail must be even stronger than that. An iron bar is kind of hard too. However, if it was a tougher one, it will be as solid as a diamond. Therefore, this quote talks aboult how hard and difficult it is to escape or go pass through it.


 * //Chapter 25 & Epilogue//**

Tuck said that she was right not to drink from the spring because the secret of the spring might have been rumored to the republic or the government. If she drank the water, she would be involved in the case, which will make the problem more complicating and more serious. Therefore, Tuck is saying that it was the correct thing for Winnie Foster to refuse drinking the water because the citizens will suspect her if she doesn't die. Everybody will accuse of selling her soul to the devil just like how Miles was betrayed from his family by thinking that he sold his soul to the devil. If I were to be Winnie, I would have drank the water because honestly, nobody wants to die because of old age. If I had the opportunity to stay alive forever, I am sure it would have been a good chance to make my dream come true. Although I might be thought of as evil, as long as I am cautious when living with my family, there wouldn't be any problems. I want to be peaceful; therefore, I would like to be similar to Tuck, Jesse, Miles, and Mae. They had a happy life before Winnie was involved, so wouldn't I be peaceful? If I didn't interfere with normal people like the Fosters or the yellow suited man, then I guess I'll be terrifically fine without any concern.