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=DO NOT EDIT THIS PAGE!= //Setting Poster Directions Study Guide Questions by Section:// Prologue-Chapter 4 Chapter 5-8 Chapter 9-13 Chapter 14-18 Chapter 19-22 Chapter 23-Epilogue

//Click on the section of Tuck Everlasting to respond to the prompt.//
"No connection, you would agree. But things can come together in strange ways. The wood was at the center, the hub of the wheel. All wheels must have a hub. A Ferris wheel has one, as the sun is the hub of the wheeling calendar. Fixed points they are, and best left undisturbed, for without them, nothing holds together. But sometimes people find this out too late."
 * Prologue**

"In the end, however, it was the cows who were responsible for the wood's isolation, and the cows, through some wisdom they were not wise enough to know that they possessed, were very wise indeed. If they had made their road through the wood instead of around it then the people would have followed the road. The people would have noticed the giant ash tree at the center of the wood, and then, in time, they'd have noticed the little spring bubbling up among its roots in spite of the pebbles piled there to conceal it. And that would have been a disaster so immense that this weary old earth, owned or not to its fiery core, would have trembled on its axis like a beetle on a pin."
 * Chapter One**

"And so, at dawn, that day in the first week of August, Mae Tuck woke up..." "At noon of that same day in the first week in August, Winnie Foster sat on the bristly grass just inside the fence and..." "At sunset of that same long day, a stranger came strolling up the road from the village and paused at the Fosters' gate."
 * Chapter Two, Three, and Four**

"She began to creep forward. She would go just close enough, she told herself. Just close enough to see. And //then// she would turn and run. But when she came near, up behind a sheltering tree trunk, and peered around it, her mouth dropped open and all thought of running melted away." "'Believe me, Winnie Foster,' said Jesse, 'it would be terrible for you if you drank any of this water. Just terrible. I can't let you.'"
 * Chapter Five**

"...though her heart was pounding and her backbone felt like a pipe full of cold running water, her head was fiercely calm." "Only then did it come to Winnie that she ought to shout, wave her arms, do //something//."
 * Chapter Six**

"'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...'"
 * Chapter Seven**

"It was good. So good, in fact, that through it all, not one of them noticed that the man they passed on the road, the man in the yellow suit, had crept up to the bushes by the stream and heard it all, the whole fantastic story. Nor did they noticed that he was following now, beside the road far behind, his mouth, about the thin, gray beard, turned ever so slightly toward a smile."
 * Chapter Eight**

"The August sun rolled up, hung at mid-heaven for a blinding hour, and at last wheeled westward before the journey was done."
 * Chapters Nine and Ten**

Chapters Eleven and Twelve "'It's a wheel, Winnie. Everything's a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping.'"

//"Listen, Ma and Pa and Miles, they don't know how to enjoy it, what we got. Why, heck, Winnie, life's to enjoy yourself, isn't it?"//
 * Chapter Fourteen**

//"Now, I don't have to spell things out for people like yourselves." "Would you mind if I rode on ahead? I'm worried for the child. I'll tell you how to get there, and I'll go on ahead and keep watch."//
 * Chapters Fifteen and Sixteen**

//"Why didn't you take them to the spring and give them some of the special water?" "What will you do if you've got so much time?"//
 * Chapters Seventeen and Eighteen**

//“'Ignorant people like you should never have this opportunity. It should be kept for…certain others. And for me.'” “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.”//
 * Chapters Nineteen and Twenty**

//"She had slammed at the wasp with a heavy book, and killed it. And then, seeing its broken body, the thin wings stilled, she had wished it were alive again."//
 * Chapters Twenty-one**

//"Yep-you know, it might work. It might just make the difference. But I don't know as Pa's going to want you taking any risk."//
 * Chapter Twenty-two**

//" Into her head came the lines of an old poem:"//
 * Chapter Twenty-three and Twenty-four**

//"Good girl," he said aloud.//
 * Chapter Twenty-five and Epilogue**