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=Prologue= //Question #1: If you could live forever, staying at the age that you are now, would you choose to live forever? Why or why not?// -If I could live forever, I would not choose live forever staying at my age that I am now. I would not want to live forever staying at my age I am now because, even I live without getting older, people around me will get older and eventually die. And if I be able to live forever, I would eventually want to be a grown up. I will get older but not by the outside looks. I would never be big as a grown up is. And never be able to give up on life. If it is hard for you and you really want to give up on life, you won't have the privilege of giving up on your life and dying. It would be awful to live during the wars and never be able to die. Since global warming is happening, many sad things will happen. For an example, 'polar bear extinction' might happen. And it may be your favorite animal. I would just like to be a normal person like everyone else. Not a weirdo or anything special, just normal.

//Question #2:In the prologue, the author describes three things that happen on one day and seem unrelated. What are those three things?// -In the prologue, three things happened on one day and seemed unrelated happened. The first thing that happened was that Mae Tuck went to the woods with her horse at dawn as she did once every ten years to meet Jesse and Miles, her two sons. The second thing that happened was that Whose family owned Treegap wood, Winnie Foster, lost patience and decided to think about running away at noontime. And at sunset, at the Fosters' gate, a stranger who was looking for someone appeared. And the stranger didn't say who he was looking for.

=Chapter #1=

//Question #1: Babbitt gives her views about land ownership in this chapter. Explain the author's views and then express your feelings about land ownership.// -I think the author of __Tuck Everlasting__, Natalie Babbit thinks land ownership is odd. Just like how I think of it. She wonders if the thin crust of Earth is only the part of the land ownership or all the way down to the center of Earth is a part of an ownership. She doesn't get why it is so special to some people. I don't either,and I don't know why they pay money for land. Why there are such high prices for land. And how they could __OWN__ land. I mean, how could they own land? Just because you discovered land you can't just own it. What I think is that nobody could own any land. If you own land wth a volcano, are the lava from volcanoes your property? I don't think so. I think it belongs to no one but mother nature. I think owning land doesn't make any sense.

//Question #2:Although we are not told, suggest reasons why it may have been a disaster if the spring had been discovered by people.// -The spring could make you live forever when you drink it and I'm sure that there is going to be a disaster because living forever is unusual. And many people are going to try to come to the stream and drink it since they want to live forever.

=Chapter #2 & 3= //Question #1:Take a few minutes to contemplate Winnie's quote at the top of page 15. If you could start fresh, making your own decisions about your life, what are some changes you would make? Please write about at least 2-3 changes. Write a paragraph for each change and explain your reasons or go into detail about the impact that change would have on your life.// -First, I would change my name to something totally different like Jenny because I don't really like my name. I think my name is too long and when people write their names fast, I write slowy because I have 8 words on my name and I'm a slow writer. Also, I hate long things such as worms and telephone line. I don't know why I hate long things but I just do. Then I would try to be not lazy. My mom always scolds me for being slow and messy. If you ever saw my room you would think that my room is a junk yard. Socks are all over the place and books are on beds and anything is shoved into the drawers such as melted candies. And I always play and do stuffs which are not good like, watching TV, playing computer games..etc before I do my homework. And I always are slow sometimes I talk slowy that my mom screams, truly screams at me. After I do the two things I said, I would move to a tropical place since I never had lived in a tropical place. I want to enjoy being very warm all the time and never shivering at winters. I hate winter,you see I like hot and mild climates. And I hate snow. I hate getting hit by it and getting my self wet after I make a snowman. But I will probably enjoy under the warm sun 365 days being warm and wearing shorts and T-shirts all the time.

=Chapter #4= //Question #1: What is Winnie doing as the stranger approaches the Foster gate?// - As a stranger approaches to the Foster gate, Winnie is trying to catch a firefly.

//Question #2: Why does Winnie's grandmother come down the path to the gate?// Winnie's grandmother come down the path to the gate because she heared Winnie talk to somebody.

//Question #3: Winnie and her grandmother have different views about what is making the music. Explain.// Winnie's grandmother belives that elves are making the noise and Winnie think it is not elves but a music box. I think it is because grandmother heard it long ago and belived that it was elf melody for the whole time. But Winnie perhaps doesn't belive in fairies, elves,ghosts,etc, Not like her grandmother. And for Winnie's grandmother, I think long time ago she heard a melody same as this melody, called the "Star" I guess. And I think everyone knows that it is hard to change your beliefs after such long time has passed. And since Winnie is younger, maybe Winnie thinks more scientific. Since, Winnie's grandmother is talking about elves. What kindergarteners will normally believe in.

//Question #4: What is your first impression of this stranger? Make a prediction regarding the role he will play in the story.// Truly, I think the person is a bad person, a cheater. And later in the story, I think he will try to drink the stream of living forever or if it doesn't exsist, he'll try to do whatever to live forever. And the elf melody Winnie's grandmother heard, I think he knowsC something about it.

=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.// - I think Jesse is refusing to let Winnie drink from the bubbling spring because he was unabled to die by drinking this spring and he is having hard times living this way. And he didn't want Winnie to be like him, not dying. Because he'll probably want to die by now, after 104 years of living. But not like Jesse, I wouldn't stop her from drinking it. Because it isn't fair that I / my family is the only one to not die! I wouldn't fair to me so I would try to make her in to one of us. And make her feel how we want to die and how we are suffering. But mostly, I would let her drink it because of unfairness.

=Chapter #6=

//Question # 1: Why do you think Winnie did not do something when they came across the stranger along the road? Would you have done something? Why or why not? Please explain in a complete paragraph.// - I think Winnie doesn't really like strangers and I think it is very unusual to her to gesture to a strange person because normally, her grandmother and her mother wouldn't let her talk or gesture to a strange person. So I think Winnie just felt uncomfortable. Or else, maybe she was dazed because she was so surprised when they kidnapped her. Like, when you are so surprised you can't say even on word. If I was there being Winnie, I would have done the same as Winnie because I could think: "Maybe the stranger is a part of who is kidnapping me. Maybe the stranger is the bad one and the ones who are kidnapping me are trying to save me." You never know how a person will act or who this person really is. I usually don't talk or belive strangers so I wouldn't have gestured or talked to the stranger as I pass by the stranger while I was being kidnapped.

//Question #2: What type of figurative language does Babbitt use in this quote?: "...though her heart was pounding and her backbone felt like a pipe full of cold running water, her head was fiercely calm." Was there really cold water running down her backbone? What is Babbitt trying to say here? Where else in the story so far has the author used this type of figurative language? (Can you find two?) Copy the quote (include the page in parenthesis) and tell us what you think the author is trying to describe.// -The figurative language the author has used is a simile because a simile uses 'as or like' and she said 'her backbone felt //**__like__**// a pipe full of cold running water' And what Babbit is trying to tell us is not that there was cold water running down her backbone. But that a chill went down spine because she was nervous and scared.

Similes on other parts of this book:
 * 1) 1- 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) = The author wants to tell us that the very hottest point of summer is August.
 * 2) 2- ...who would tumble her into a blanket and bear her off __//**like**//__ a sack of potatoes. (pg.31)= The author is telling us that Winnie pictured herself being kidnapped by being thrown into a blanket.

=Chapter #7= //__Question # 1:__ In a complete paragraph, please describe the setting of __Tuck Everlasting__. You may need to review details from earlier chapters in the book. Make sure that you use quotation marks if you quote anything directly from the book. -// This book takes place in a town named Treegap. In Treegap, there are roaded flattended by herds of cows long ago and a house with very sharp edges and very clean, and in the yard, the grass is very short that it looks painful to watch. And there is a forest. A forest owned by the owner of the clean house. And there is a bubbling spring that makes you live forever if you drink it. //__Question #2:__ "'Pa thinks it's something left over from-well, from some other plan for the way the world should be," said Jesse. 'Some plan that didn't work out too good...'" What does Jesse mean? What could this 'plan' have been? In your description, make sure you connect the bubbling spring to your opinion of the 'plan' Jesse and Angus are referring to. Your answer to this question should be at least one paragraph.// -I think the plan was to make everyone live forever. But I'm christian so I think when god made the Garden of Eden, there was this spring and people there had eternal lives because of this stream. And when Adam and Eve was sent down to Earth, god sent the bubbling spring down with them secretly. Because he wanted to give us humans a chance to be living forever again. But eventually, every one just went pass the spring and no one wanted to be eternal according to the rumor they heard about. So, then god just abandons it and hides it inside the forest of Treegap. So this is the plan I think it is.

=Chapter #8=

//__Question # 1:__ At the end of the chapter we learn that someone has overheard the Tuck's secret. Who was it that overheard the secret? How have the actions of this character created suspense, or tension, in the plot (throughout the story)? Give specific examples from the story so far.// //-// The person who over heard the Tuck's secret is the yellow-suited stranger who was in front of Winnie's house few days ago. Many books are divided into evil and good. I think the stranger is the evil one in the story. And I think he will do something horrible to the Tuck family. So I think the stranger created a tension in the middle of reading mainly because he smiled. And in most movies evil people smile when they get something they were looking for. And since he was overhearing them, I'm sure that the yellow-suited man will cause trouble. Not just any trouble but a BIG trouble.

=Chapter #9=

//Question # 1: By this chapter, we have read a lot of dialogue involving the Tucks. Here are some examples of incorrect grammar that the Tucks have used in their conversations: "It don't take 'em more'n a minute to pile into that pond." "How do, Winnie Foster." "We was like gypsies." Explain why you think the Tucks talk like this and try to come up with reasons how this shows us more about their characters. This should be written as a complete paragraph. -// I think the Tucks talk like this because they lived a long time ago and long time ago, people didn't have proper education. So, I think that the Tucks had education long, long time ago and only had given one chance to learn. As many people go to school __once__ I don't think that the Tucks had education in years. So there is a possibility that they forgot what they learned too. And I think this 'talking' thing is showing us that they are old and I don't know why but makes me think about western states. I think I'm thinking of cowboys because in many old cowboy books and movies, they talk bad English like the Tucks.

=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. -// The Author of //Tuck Everlasting// described the Tuck family's home by saying: "The table with the drawer that housed the mouse was pushed off, also alone, into a farther corner, and three armchairs and an elderly rocker stood about aimlessly, like strangers in a party, ignoring each other." and other things too. And in this quote, she means that the furnitures in he parlor (living room) is scattered around as if the Tucks didn't arrange them but just put them anywhere. And there are forgotten stuffs everywhere. Such as, Tuck's forgotten shotgun. And compared to Winnie's wonderful clean and heavenly house, the Tuck family's house is a junkyard. My home is clean mostly clean except my bedroom. And we don't have any mouse! If my mom sees one, she'll want to move. And my house would never have furnitures scattered around.

= = =Chap #11-12=

//Question # 1: On page 59, what does Tuck mean when he says, "I got a feeling this whole thing is going to come apart like wet bread."// -By this, I think Tuck means that something bad is going to happen and something will break apart and be useless. Like, if you plan something and a person comes and hear it when it is supposed to be a secret, I think that's when you use the phrase "come apart like wet bread". //Question #2: There are SOOOO many examples of figurative language in Chapter 12. Please find 5. Write the quote, the page number, the type of figurative language, and an explanation of what the author is trying to say.//


 * 1) 1- The sky was a ragged blaze of red and pink and orange and its double trembled on the surface of the pond like color spilled from a paint box. (pg.60) It means that the sky was so beautiful with nice, with beautiful colors just like the colors of your paint set.
 * 2) 2- The sun was dropping fast now, a soft red sliding egg yolk, and already to the east there was a darkening to purple. (pg.61) It is saying that the sun was going down because it is getting late (obviously) as a egg yolk, it looked shiny (if you look at a egg yolk, it is slimy and because of the slime it looks shiny.) and round like the real sun we see everyday.
 * 3) 3- Across the pond a bull frog spoke deep notes of warning.(pg.62) Frogs can't speak but by this, the author means that the frog croaked(?) because that is what frogs normally do.
 * 4) 4- It was so quiet that Winnie almost jumped when the bull frog spoke again(pg.62) Once again, frogs can't speak and what the author wants to tell you is that Winnie nearly jumped when the frog croaked and broke the silence.
 * 5) 5- And farther down, Winnie could see that it hurried into a curve, around a leaning willow, and disapeared. (pg.62-63) The author is tellng us how the road was bulit like on chapter #1.

=Chapter # 13-14=

//Question #1: "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." What are Tuck's (Angus') feelings towards eternal life? What does he mean by the third quote from above? Compare his feelings to those of the other Tucks' (Miles, Jesse, and Mae). -// I think what Angus meant by the 'wheel' is that they are no longer a part of the normal human being-cycle. Like the food cycle, I think Angus means that there is a cycle of growth in human. I think the cycle will be going like, A baby to a teenager, a teenager to an adult and it goes on. I think it is obvious that the last stage of the human cycle is the 'Death' but the Tucks can't really grow so you can say that they are out of the cycle (the 'wheel'). Plus, they can't be a normal human being for the rest of their life so that is why Angus uses the phrase "like rocks beside the road". To explain the 3rd quote more easier, the Tucks are the rocks and the road is the 'wheel' which I said that it is a cycle. Rocks can't move, obviously. So they won't have any chance of being on the road. So by this quote thwey mean that they could never get on back to the wheel (cycle).

And Angus's feeling about the 'eternal' life is very gloomy and is like a cloudy day. When I say that it is like a cloudy day, I mean that we can't see the future and it is very hopeless. But I think Jesse looks for the happier side than the gloomy side that his father faces. Even though he is having hard times, I think he still looks for hope. And I think Mae Tuck is accepting what is happening and what can't be changed like being eternal. Miles is just like his father; so serious. So I think Mae and Jesse is positive and Miles and Angus is very negetive.

//Question #2:// //Imagine that the Tucks are everlasting and still wandering the earth. Write a description of them if they came into your town this year. Describe where you might see them, what they would be doing, and how you would recognize them. -// I think I'll recognize Jesse by his age, which is 17. I think Jesse is very handsome since Winnie thinks that way. He would speak in bad, bad, BAD grammar, I mean, EVERYONE in the Tuck family would. And Mae, I think I'll see her dressed like how she dresses everyday. She'll wear three petticoats, a rusty brown skirt with one enormous pocket, an old cotton jacket, and a knitted shawl which she pinned across her bosom with a tarnished metal. Miles will be nervous if people would find out who they are so he will go to his family after talking with some people. Just like Miles Angus will care about them but will be worried about his family a whole lot more than Miles. All of them would love each other and care for each other so much. And they would be in a small bakery or a place like a hotel which is smaller beacuse they would have to eat something or have a rest. And They would be resting or buying bread there.

=Chapter #15=

//Question #1. What do we learn about the man in the yellow suit? Give at least two examples from this chapter that show what kind of person he really is. -//We learn that the man in the yellow suit is very wanting to live forever beacuse he knows about the spring. We know that he wants to live forever by saying this to get the spring:"I want the wood and you want the child. It's a trade. A simple clear-cut trade." And another thing about him is that he is greedy and cruel. He is seeing the money in everything. Think about how much the bubbling spring would be. Hmm... a spring that gives you an eternal life. Some people would want to live forever and drink it for $1000. That is possible. I think the man in the yellow suit is never gong to die and be rich. i found that the yellow suited man is a person with an ability to make people trust him by saying something as if he is very smart: "it looks like as if I'm the only person in the whole world who knows where to find her." //Question #2. Why do you think he wants to make this deal with the Fosters? -//As I said on the first question, the yellow suited man wants the **__spring.__** Everyone knows that the Fosters own the woods right? So If the stranger makes this deal of trading the wood and the child, the stranger will have his hands on the spring that makes you live forever. So mainly, what I mean is that if the stranger tell the Fosters where Winnie is, he'll get what he wants: the spring that the Tucks drank from since they'll give him the wood. //Question #3. Give your opinion about why Babbitt didn't write any dialogue for the Fosters. In other words, why do you think the stranger is the only one talking in this chapter? -//I think the stranger is the only one talking because the author wants you to focus on how the stranger is acting and how he is ignoring them and how he is not listening to them. I think the author want us to see how the stranger can talk and make the chapter understandable without even a word from the Fosters and how much he speaks.

=Chapter #16=

//Question #1: In this chapter the constable talks about the gallows. Why do you think Babbitt makes the constable talk about the gallows? What possible hints is Babbitt trying to give us about what could happen to the Tucks in the future?// -I think the author is talking about the gallows because many crimminals die from gallows and the Tuck family is trying to give us is that maybe the Tucks will be hung from the gallow and the secret that the Tucks are everlasting will be revealed.

=Chapter #17= //Question #1: How was Winnie's conversation with Miles similar to her conversation with Angus? How was it different?// - Winnie's conversation with Angus was a bit similar to Winnie's conversation with Miles because they both kind of talked about the 'life' and both of the conversations took place in the boat. And Winnie and Angus/Miles were facing each other. And they were different because Miles talked about his family and more stuffs than just about life. But Angus's whole conversation with Winnie is very mu7ch talking about life. //Question #2: Why didn't Miles have his family drink from the spring? What would you have done if you were in his shoes?// - Miles really wanted to make his family drink from the bubbling spring, but he was to late by then to make them drink it. His wife was nearly 40 years old and his children were about the same age as Miles. Even if he made them drink it, it wouldn't work having children who look about the same age as him. So, if I were Miles, I wouldn't have made my children drink the water because of a different reason. First, I wouldn't want to prevent my children from growing up. Second, I wouldn't want my wife(what?)or husband(duh..?) to have the 'terrible' experience I'm having. So I wouldn't want my family to drink the spring too, but in a different way.

=Chapter #22-23= //Question #1: After reading chapter 22, in your own words, describe the plan to help Mae escape. (Be specific.) Do you think it's a good plan? Why or why not?//

-The plan is to take Mae's window frame from the wall so she can climb through it since Miles knows a lot about carpentering. They they will do this at night with Winnie taking Mae's place after Mae goes out through the window and putting the window back, where it belonged.

//Question #2: In Chapter 23, Babbitt describes many emotions (feelings) that Winnie is experiencing at the same time. Describe two emotions (feelings) that Winnie is experiencing and use examples from the book as your proof. Describe a time when you also experienced these two emotions at the same time.//

-On page 118, Winnie feels guilty for doing something very bad without asking but she is also very excited because she hadn't forbidded any rules through the past 3 short days. "...-she was about to do something forbidden." When I was 4th grade, I felt guilty and excited when I went into my brothers room in the U.S. and messed things around. I knew that I was going to get punished but it was my first time being in his room. So I was exited to mess up in a room very new to me and I felt guilty because my brother hates people in his room and messing around with his stuffs.

=Chapter 24-25-Epilogue=

//Question #1. In your own words, describe how the weather changes from the beginning of the chapter to the end of the chapter.// - First, at the beginning of the chapter, a warm sunlight welcomes Treegap, where Winnie lives. And the sunlight makes us predict about a balmy weather comming. But, everyone who thought that a balmy weather was comming were wrong because the warm sunlight happened to be a sign for a 'BAD' weather. To make the long story short, the weather changed from sunny to stormy. //Question #2. How is the weather in this chapter connected to the major events in the chapter? Be specific and use examples from the book as proof.// - The weather in this chapter is related with the major events by being very similar to the theme of 'breaking a prisoner out of jail'. Which is supposed to be spooky or scary. And breaking someone out of a prison is something very important. If the book has some special affects such as lightning when Mae is getting out of prison, it will have the affect of making it more spookier. So, what I mainly want to say is that the theme, the theme of the lightning and a prison break is similar. //Question #3. In the epilogue we learn that the spring was destroyed. How do you think Mae and Tuck feel about that? How do you feel about the spring being destroyed?// - I think Mae and Tuck feels relaxed because no one will become like the Tucks. Having eternal lives and not being able to die even though you want to die. And very releaved(spelling mistake?) since something that they were worried about the most is gone.

=Tuck Movie Book Comparison= //1. List three major differences between the book and the movie. 2. Why do you think the movie had these differences? (Be specific.) 3. Which version (the book or the movie) did you like better and why?// 1. a. The first major differences between the book and the movie is that the Tucks already know that they are being tracked down in the movie but they don't know that they are being tracked down in the book. b. Winnie has a grandmother who talks about elves and is very strict in the book. But, in the movie her mother comes out as the most strict person and Winnie's grandmother is ill. Nothing about the 'elf music' comes out in the movie also. c. At the end, when Winnie helps Mae come out of jail, Miles helps Mae break out of jail by taking the cell out of the wall and replacing her with Winnie. But in the movie, winnie comes running to the police station (?), somewhere with the cell that Mae is in and tells the constable that some kidnappers that got her before are cahsing her. And while the constable goes out to get the kidnappers, Winnie gets the key to Mae and Tuck's cell. Actually, Winnie doesn't **__OPEN__** Mae and Tuck's cell. She just goes in the cell and pretends to be Mae, not free her. 2. Because mostly movies wants to get funner and the directer wants a part of his/her idea in the movie too, not only the authors. The movies don't have enough time to fit in every little thing and every little details. Even in __Harry Potter__, an awsome book, the movie for it contained only about 1/5 of the book. The director probably thought that making Winnie release Mae and Tuck was more interesting. I was actually interesting at the part when Miles and Jesse appeared with black freaky costumes and started walking toward the place where Mae and Tuck was. It was so funny that everyone laughed.I think the director did a great jod on that part. It was TOTALLY funny! And usually people's mother are the most strict person in a family. More strict than a grandmother or a father, at least, my mom is. However, I think the author tried to be more realistic. I think the director made the Tucks know that they are being tracked to make people scared and expect something extraordinary to happen. Actually when Miles said that they were being tracked, it totally created a tension. 3. I really liked the movie more (except when they danced and swam and kissed). I especially liked the part when Jesse and Miles comes to save Mae and Tuck with Winnie. It was so funny watching them fall downwhen the constable shot them and standing up again and walking as if nothing happened. I normally like movies better than books. I really like to go to the movies with someone instead of of reading a book with someone. Usually, you don't actually read a book with your friend when they come over to your house, do you?