5A-Michelle-TuckResponses

=Tuck Everlasting Responses=

I would just stay the age I am now because I can play with my friends everyday. If I become an adult, I have to work instead of playing with friends. Even though we have to study and take tests and all those stuff, still it is better than working everyday. If I stay the age I am now,I would be able to know the history very well as I can live through long period of time.
 * //Prologue//**

The author thinks the owner of the land only owns the crust of the land. I noticed this while the author described the forest. The athor said that the owner of the forest owns the trees but does not own the root of the trees. But I think that the owner of the land owns all the way to the center of Earth because no one cares if someone digs their land and barries something.
 * //Chapter 1//**

In chapter two, the setting was dsicribed simillar as the prologue. It says in the prologue 'The frist week of August hangs at the nery to of summer,'. In chapter two, it says 'And so at dawn, that day in the frist week of August,'. As you see the both happened at the first week of August. In chapter one it says that it's uncomfortably hot under the sun. I guess it's very hot in Treegap like boiling water.
 * //Chapter 2//**

Chapter three takes place in the touch-me-not-cottage. This chapter also takes place in the first week of August. Winnie Foster sat on the painfully cutted grass and talked to a large toad who was few yards away from the iron fence. The touch-me-not-cottage is located at the edge of Treegap. Also it is surrouned by painfully cutted grass. The cottage makes people feel to through rock at it to break it's arrogance.
 * //Chapter 3//**

Chpater four takes time during the sunset. At the sunset, a stranger came to the cottage and said,"Good evening!"(p.g.17). This chapter also takes place in the touch-me-not-cottage. Well this time it's inside the cottage. The stranger asks Winnie if he can talk to her grandma since she had lived her whole live in Treegap. The stranger said that he is looking for someone. When they(grandma and the stranger) were talking they heard a melody from the forest. When the grandma said that she heard the melody sang by evles (according to her), the stranger seem to heard the song before too.
 * //Chapter 4//**

I think Jesse did that because he didn't wanted Winnie to live a life like him. A life which you can't finish. If I were Jesse I would have done the same thing because I wouldn't want Winnie to live forever and feel miserable just like Miles felt. She might be considered as a weird person or something and could be sold by people like a slave.
 * //Chapter5//**

//"...though her heart was pounding and **her backbone felt like a pipe full of cold running water**, her head was fiercely calm."(pg.32)
 * //Chapter6//**

"Only then did it come to Winnie that she ought to shout, wave her arms, do something."//

1. No there were no cold water running down her back bone. I think Babbitt just tried to dsicribe how Winnie felt when she felt that the Tucks were kidnapping her away. I think Winnie felt scary and worried. One time when Babbit used this kind of describing is when she described the end of the grass which was cutted uneven. She said the ends were ragged instead of uneven(or some other word). And once when she was saying that the forest belonged to the Fosters. She said it'sprivate property in spite but later she said it was perfectly accessible. Also I think the quote meant that Winnie suddenly felted that she should call out, shout and do all those stuff but she have missed the chance and dicided not to do that stuff.

2. I think she just stayed because she was scared if she would fall down from the horse and she was afraid to let go of the settle and to turn around. I think she is afraid because he was asking about the melody(Tuck's music box) the day before and he just came out suddenly when they(Tucks and Winnie) thought there wouldn't be anyone around the corner. It says in the book that as soon as she(Winnie) saw the stranger, her mind went completely blank.

I think Jesse father meant that there were ways to keep the world clear and peaceful. The fountain was a part of the plan. But the plan didn't work out too good. I think the plan was to make people live forever and not make people feel depress by people dying. I think that the fountain was a remnent of the waters that where used for the plans before. This was my guess, I'm not sure if it's going to be true.
 * //Chapter 7//**

It was the stranger who came to the cottage before wearing the same old yellow jacket. In the book somewhere it said the stranger came out suddenly from the forest. That way the author gave suspense by not giving a single clue when the stranger or something will come out. Also the stranger slowly smiled as he got away humming the melody(Mae's music box). I think she felt the feeling where you feel some kind of suspicious feelings.
 * //Chapter 8//**

1. The Tucks' house is discribed realy messy. It (the book) said there were ashes in the foreplace uncleaned. Also in Mae and Angus' bedroom, there was a wardrobe which leaked and stinked. Winnie was very surprised when she saw this kind of house when she was used to clean, spotless cottage with her cleaning lady cleaned everyday. I tink I understand how Winnie felt when she first went in the house because our house is mostly clean every day. Well sometimes when some of my friends came over to my house, that when my house gets messy. Now back to the conversation, I undestand how you feel when you go in a extremely dirty, messy house(or place), I might have a heart attack because seeing a thing that is really different from the thing you used to see everyday might surprise you. Just like I was surprised when I first had a subtitute in 1st grade. 2. I think to Mae the fountain is a blessing in some point of views and in some other kinds of views, the fountain might be a curse. To her it(the fountain) might be a blessing in the point where they don't have to worry about getting injured or dying. If they didn't drank the foutain, all of them(the Tucks) might be dead lying in their coffins. So I think in this point of view, it's a blessing. But in the part where you have to be carful not to be noticed by other people that they are not changing for years or else, they might be known as people who sold their soul to devil or they might be sold to circus by the title of the forever living human being. I, myself, think that the fountain is a blessing to me because I would not want to die. But I would rather drank it when I'm not sick and when I'm not too old or not too young. When I told my dad about the fountain, he asked me that where is the fountain and when I told him that it's right in the forest next to Treegap, he said,"Too bad....."
 * //Chapter 9 and 10//**

//"We ain't part of the wheel no more." "If I knowed how to climb back on the wheel, I'd do it in a minute." "We just **are**, we just **be**, like rocks beside the road."// To me Angus doesn't realy like living forever. I can know this by when he said that he and the other members of families (Miles,Jesse,Mae) are not a aprt of the wheel any more. To me, he sounded like he wanted to go back to the time when they(the Tucks) were a part of the life wheel(able to die). He also said if he knew how to get back on the wheel,(to die) he would do that right away. I think the third quote means that when other rock are able to go somewhere, they are not able to go because they are not on the road(path) anymore. For example, if life is like a soccer game, you are like out by panalty. And the panalty that brung them out of the game was that they drank the spring water. Others were still in the game(able to die) because they didn't drank the spring water. To me Angus, Mae, and Miles' thought about living forever is very simillar, maybe same. Because Angus, as I explained above, didn't liked living forever. I bet Miles also doesn't like living forever because his wife left him with his children. The wife thought Miles sold his soul to Devil or something because he didn't change over the years. I think somewhere in the beginning of the book, Mae said some of the old neighbors might notice her not changing and tell the other people and make other people know about the Tucks living forever before she went out to Treegap to pick the kids up. This is why I think that Mae think living forever is a curse. However, Jesse does like it(living forever). Because on page 42~43, Jesse said that it will be a good thing to look over the times and learn the history by real.
 * //Chapter Eleven-Twelve//**

Jesse suggested that Winnie need just to keep the secret (about the water fountain/the Tucks) and drink the water herself at the age of seventeen, which is same as Jesse. I think that he asked her to do that because Jesse wanted to enjoy his ablity to live forever. But he was lonely to run away and enjoy it himself alone. However, no one in his family sounded like running away and leaving their family behind. Also, I think that Jesse had a crush on Winnie because he said that they(Jesse and Winnie) could get merried if they ran away. I think that Winnie would drink the water and run away because that would give the story more adventurous feelings. I think that Natalie Babbit wouldn't have just go on with the story without the adventures and all those events that would keep you from abandoning the book. However, I also think that she might say she was not going to run because she felt guilty leaving her family behind to die and running away. Since she felt guilty just because she suspected Tucks as criminals, I'm sure she would feel guilty of leaving her family. Also in some countries, running away from your family is like betraying your family. Therefore, she might feel more guilty. She might also feel nerverous because since she is grown up among the adults, she might have a habit about getting punished if she did something that was illigal in her family or somehting very bad. If I was Winnie, I would have told Jesse I won't run away but I'll just tell my family to drink the water and live forever toghter. That would let me live forever and not to betray your family because I was taught to keep my manners at all times since I was young and I don't want to make my family worry about me.
 * //Chapter Fourteen//**

1.The man in the yellow suit sounded like he was a fake saler to me. Because he said like he said things stating that if he wasn't there when Winnie was taken by the Tucks, He kind of sounded like he is boasting himself. Also he wanted too much things just for telling where Winnie is. I think this is why the Fosters looked shocked on the last page of chapter 15. The man in the stranger sounded like he and the Fosters are doing something illigal when he said that they(the Fosters) should know what the man wants her his awarding. I think he only wanted the spring water, not to save Winnie. 2.The constable was careless about the man and what he was saying(about Winnie's kidnapping) when the man in the yellow suit had waken him up. However, he became suspecious after when the man (stranger) said about the forest-Winnie trding deal. Because the constable knew that Mr.Foster(Winnie's father) isn't a person who is going to just give away the big land of he family for several generations. Also, he didn't believe him because for the last 15 years, there wasn't any criminals or all sorts of bad happenings. Therefore he was very lazy to do works in fifteen years. But when he found out that the Fosters gave the strange man their forest, he decided to go with the man. I think the man in the yellow suit is so progressive about finding Winnie and taking the forest from the Fosters because he wanted to find the wter, drink it himself and then sell them to every other people who doen't know about it and make a lot of money. He wanted to go to the Tucks house fast because if the Tucks came to the cottage and give Winnie back, he would get in a big,big trouble.If I was the constable I would have felt that the stranger is only wanting the forest, not to save Winnie. I would have made him to stay close to me because I never know when he is going to run away with the paper with Mr.Foster's signiture on. And I don't want the Fosters to be miserable.
 * //Chapter Fifteen and Sixteen//**

1. Miles didn't bring his own family to the magical spring because he didn't knew that the spring would give the people who drank the water the ability to live forever at that time. I think if he knew that the spring would make you live forever, he would have taken his own family to the spring. If I was Miles, I would have taken my family to the spring the minute I find out that the spring would make you live forever. Because I would not want my family to die when I'm still alive and also, I would not allow my family to leave me like Miles. However I might not be able to take my family to the spring because like Miles I might not know what the spring will do to me when I drink it. Also I might not want my family to live a haunted life like the Tucks. Therefore I might not take my family to the spring. However I would ask my family if they want to live forever or not. If they don't want to, well, too bad. Also I would ask them not to tell any body else about the spring. 2. One of the the similarities between Miles-Winnie talk and Angus-Winnie talk is that they where both talking about the spring and the spring's effectings. At the Angus' talk, he was telling(explaining) Winnie about what happened to them(the Tucks) after they drank the spring water. At the Miles' talk with Winnie, Miles talked about what had happen to him whrn his family found out that he wouldn't die and how the other people(people who didn't drink the water) acted against the people who drank the water.
 * //Chapter Seventeen and Eighteen//**

1. I do not agree with the man in the yellow suit because I don't think that only certain people have the opportunity to use/do/eat somehting. It's something like the slavery thing. The black people weren't supposed to drink in certain water fountains and weren't supposed to go to a certain bathroom or school. In this situation, the Tucks are the black people and the man in the yellow suit is the white people. The man in the yellow suit sounded like a white man declaring that the blacks weren't supposed to do certain things to the blacks,which is the Tucks in this situation. All people is a human and they are the same thing. Therefore they should be treated evenly. There should be no bulling and treating certain people because of there outlooks and all those stuff. That is the same thing as bulling people. The Tucks should have the same opportunity to use the spring. No, I think the opposite from the man. I think the man in the yellow suit should be the one who should be banned from using/drinking/seliing or even getting near to the spring water. 2.I think he was like that because he was shocked about what Mae did(hitting the man in the head). Also he might be nervorous because if the man dies, Mae would be sented to the gallows. However, if the other people see that Mae won't die, they would some how find out about the spring and try to drink it which will cause a big,big trouble. If I was Angus(Tuck), I would just stay investigating the fainted body lying on the grass because I would know that Mae wouldn't die. If the people feel suspicious, I would tell them that Mae is somekind of person that can do what other people can't do.Since there are people who can eat metal objeacts, people might believe that Mae have strength to live with the gallows on her. However I would still wish that the man in the yellow suit won't die because I hate to see people die.
 * //Chapter Nineteen and Twenty//**

Winnie felt sorry for Mae and the Tucks. Because it's the man in the yellow suit's fault that Mae hit him in the head. Also, Winnie wondered if Mae also felt like Winnie (wanting the man to be alive again) when she had killed the man in the yellow suit. Winnie felt sorry if though she only killed a single wasp, but Mae had killed a human being. However, I don't think Mae would be sorry for the man because it's his fault that made Mae blew her top(idiom!!!). I didn't actually killed an alive thing but I've kiiled a plant. When I was in kindergarden, I was pretending to cook things with my friends. We used leaves of plants to cook things. When I went home that day, my dad toldme it's really a bad thing to kill anything. I felt guilty abiut the thing that I pulled leaves out of plants. So I told my mom that I've used leaves to play and my mom told me that i'ts ok. I felt so guilty that I still remember it now.
 * //Chapter Twenty-One//**

I think Angus(Tuck) didn't agree about Winnie helping the plan because Winnie might get caught and get excuted if people(constable) find out that Winnie was trying to rescue the person who should be excuted. Angus might be worried because he, Jesse, and Miles won't die even if they get hanged. So he would be afraid that Winnie would die. Since Angus like and care about Winnie, he is very worried that Winnie might die when she gets caught by the other people. I also think that Angus felt Winnie as his own daughter since she was the first natural person that Angus has ever met in the last eighty-seven years. Therefore he felt sorry for her to do the hard stuffes for one of his own family members, not her's. I think giving your life away for a stranger you met like a single day ago is like the dumbest thing I've ever seen. If you give your life away for your family member or somehting, might be ok. However, giving your life away for a stranger might be kind of odd. Imagine, if a stranger comes up to you and ask you to die for them, sre you going to sacrifice your life? I don't think so. Well, since Mae was so kind to Winnie as Winnie was her own daughter, Winnie might sacrifice herself. But if I was her, I would rather try to reveal the truth to the others so that no oen would die. I would not want to die, or anyone else getting killed(hanged).
 * //Chapter Twenty-Two//**

I think it (the quote) means that nothing can keep anything in somehwere no matter what. Since the quote said that the stone walls don't make a prison, I think even stone walls can't keep prisoners in the prison forever. I also think that the prison in the quote means the prison where Mae is locked up. I think Winnie thought of this because Mae was locked up by killing a living human being but she had escaped from the prison by the help of the Tucks. Since Mae ahd to go to the gallows, Winnie might had thought that Mae couldn't have escaped fromthe prison. However, Mae had escaped and something impossible had happened. From this, Winnie might have got the idea of there are nothing impossible. Also, Winnie had found out that there is a spring that could make people live forever, which she thought it was impossible.
 * //Chapter Twenty-Three and Twenty-Four//**

If I was Winnie, I would have drank the water and let my family to drink the water too so they can live with me and the Tucks. As I've said before I would not want my family to die while I live forever. I didn't wanted to drink the water when Miles had explained about what had happened to him after he drank the water. Also when Tuck had a talk with Winnie, I decided not to drink the water. Because I would not want to get my feelings furt and I would not want to watch people pass away the point I am. However, after Jesse's suggestion to Winnie, I have changed my mind. But I didn't wanted to leave my family behind. So I decided to take my family to the spring.
 * //Chapter Twenty-Five and Epilogue//**