5D+Erika

**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 had to live forever staying at the age that I am now, then I'd rather choose not to live forever. I may have one or two reasons for it. First of all, I don't want to be short my whole life. I mean, being short is bad, not good. At college, I will be small and probably people will tease me about my height. No way. I don't live with insults. And, of course, maybe I want to kill myself someday. If I shoot myself or stab myself with a sword, I won't die. And of course, I will be totally disapointed. Well, in Pirates of the Carribean Bay, I think the first movie, Jack Sparrow fights with this pirate. They fight fight fight. And then, that pirate stabs Jack with a sword thorough his back in the moonlight. And then you know what? Jack becomes this alive skeleton. He's alive! Well, for him, thats good. Well, if you actually wanted to die, that would be really bad. Another reason is that...I don't want to have so much disapointments and sorrow. Right now, I think I'm failing with grades and stuff. Also, I love my whole entire family including my grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles. I totally don't want to see them die. I mean, thats totally obvious. I get upset a lot and well, I don't want to live with comparing. I mean the people comparing. To tell the truth, I'm a bit short tempered. I get mad easily, but I don't show it. Thats a good thing. Well, I guess thats all the reasons I can think of. I hope you understand.

//Question #2//- **//In the prologue, the author describes three things that happen on one day and seem unrelated. What are those three things?//** The three sentences I'm listing below are the three things that happen on one day and seem unrelated.
 * " At dawn, Mae Tuck set out on her horse for the wood at the edge of the village of Treegap. She was going there, as she did once every ten years,to meet her two sons,Miles and Jesse."
 * "At noontime, Winni Foster, whose family owned the Treegap wood, lost her patience at last and decided to think about running away."
 * "And at sunset a stranger appeared at the Fosters' gate. He was looking for someone, but he didn't say who."

**Chapter 1**
//Question #1//- Natalie Babbitt thinks that land ownership is a little bad because if someon actually just took some kind of land and anounces that its theirs, well...it would be...a little...cray perhaps? Well, its probably wrong if you just take a land without knowing who it belongs to. I think the same thing I just said, //crazy//. Well, I really think its crazy! Its just so cazy and silly if you just build a house or and anounce it as yout territory. I mean, how would the real owner feel? Probably angry, mad, and sad. They would have nowhere to go now, right? I hope that you agree with me. //Question #2-// **Although we are not told, suggest reasons why it may have been a disaster if the spring had been discovered by people.** If the spring was discovered by people, I think they will want to won it because a spring is pretty useful. You don't need to keep on buying water or buy this machine that gets water whether dirty or not. A spring is nice to own because you just drink water from it and water is really improtant. So I think people want to own it and fight for it because there should be more than one person who wants to own it. Also, they may pollute the clean water thats in the spring wich is really totally bad. And of course, polluting is //always// bad. Thats all the reasons I could think of if the people had discovered it.
 * Babbitt gives her views about land ownership in this chapter. Explain the author's views and then express your feelings about land ownership.**

**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 and organize your response in paragraphs.** First, I want to change where I am living right now. Korea, is too...well...impolite perhaps? I totally do not want to live in a unpleasant place. I'm going to move to California where I lived for seven years which is the only place I would like to move. If I lived in California, it would be easier for me because they talk in //English// not in Korean so its more easier to understand. And well of course, I will be perfectly happy there.

Second, I will study hard, go to Stanford University, and be a teacher. I want to teach those who couldn't afford a school. I just feel so sorry and bad for those who couldn't learn. I will form a place and call in about ten people who couldn't learn and teach them until they know the important things like math and stuff. I will move on to place to place after I'm sure the people I taught know the important things. I want people to learn and of course not feeling so jealous of people who already learned before them.

**Chapter 4**
Question #1- **What is Winnie doing as the stranger approaches the Foster gate?** Winnie was trying to catch fireflies when the stranger was coming to the gate.

Question #2- **Why does Winnie's grandmother come down the path to the cave?** Winnie's grandmother came down the path to the cave because she heard Winnie talking to someone so she wanted to know who it was.

Question #3- **Winnie and her grandmother have different views about what is making the music. Explain.** When Winnie and her grandmother heard the music, Winnie thought it was a music box, but the grandmother thought it was elves. So thats why they have different views about what is making the music.

Question #4- **What is your first impression of this stranger? Make a prediction regarding the role he will play in the story.** I think that this stranger might be a little bad or so. Thats because he acts really friendly which makes it a little fishy somehow because bad people act sweet and kind sometimes or often. I think he might want to know about someone in the Foster's so thats why he's there. I think he might come out sometimes in the story, always coming to ask the Foster's about what he wants to know. He might even be the one who wants to maybe............do something about the father of Winnie and maybe do something to the father.

**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.** Jesse refuses to let Winnie drink from the bubbling spring because if Winnie drank the water from the spring, then something would happen. Something terrible and he even told that to Winnie when she wanted to drink from the spring because she was thirsty. I want to tell her what happens if she drinks it and if she really wants to become immortal and she would have not regrets, of course, I would let her drink it. But, I have different minds changing all the time. So, I might think like Jesse. I would probably hate being immortal so Winnie might not like it, too. So it depends, I might think like Jesse or I might think about telling her about the spring. 80% is thinking like Jesse. 20% thinking about telling her about hte spring.

**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 didn't do something when they came across the stranger because she thought that this man was a little suspicious...I mean acting strange. And also, maybe she thought that the Tucks weren't really bad people and she kind of liked them even though she thought that they were kidnapping her. I would do the same thing as Winnie. I mean, if the Tucks looked like bad people then I would scream my head off for help and of course, the man would come to the rescue like superman! But, if the Tucks really looked nice and ok, I would just be quiet and not scream my head off. Also, Jesse said that we were friends. So, how bad can it be? I mean, if Jesse was nice, then why won't his family? Jesse loves his family and he has no intention running away like Winnie. SO, thats another reason that I would do the same thing as Winnie. //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."//
She was using a simile over there. Thats because she used like in her sentence. And no, there wasn't really cold water running down her backbone. She just meant that she was nervous or probably scared or afraid. Its like a chill went through her spine. Yeah, its like that.
 * //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.//**
 * Her throat closed and her mouth went dry as paper.** (page 34 Chapter 6) The author was telling us that she was shocked, or even terrified. Maybe she was even speechless.
 * 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 weel when it pauses in its turning.** (page 3 prologue) It is a simile since she used like. I think she meant that August was the end of summer and it was far away right now...

**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.//** The time setting of this story was in 1870-1948 because that time, they wore clothings that we don't really wear today like trousers, and petticoats. Also, they rode horses. They weren't farmers and they didn't have any cars. Now, the setting for this story sets in Treegap, the woods, and the other side of the woods which is where Winnie lives. And I think that where Winnie lives kind of looks like the country-side. " The road no longer belonged to the cow. It became, instead, and rather abruptly, the property of people." The road must have been really old because in the story, its the people's property. But, before that, it was the cow's property. //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 that the plan that Angus (Tuck) and Jesse was talking about was something about the bubbling spring. Maybe, and I said a maybe, its because of immortality (living forever). Maybe some people //did// find out about the spring. If a few people did find out, they must of drank the water and Angus found out. And that secret became a disaster because it was unlocked. The people would've tld their friends and families and the the people who the immortal people told about the spring would go the woods and seek for the bubbling spring. That would be a disaster. Just because there was a bubbling spring that makes you live forever, it doesn't mean that your life would be a whole lot better. If you thought that your life was miserable and depressing and you found out about the bubbling spring, you would go and get it. And if you did drink it, your life would be more miserable and more depressing because that would go on forever. So thats the main reason for my answer. Now there, that was my answer for this really hard question. (It wasn't really hard, but I really needed to put some thought into that just like you said today this morning. ^.^)

**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.** At the end of the chapter, the stranger who is the man in the yellow suit who came to Winnie's house and talked to her, had overheard the Tuck's secret. "It was good. So good in fact, that through it all, not one of them noticed that the man they had 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 notice that he was following now, beside the road far behind, his mouth, above the thin gray beard, turned ever so slightly toward a smile." Whoa. That made a chill go through my spine for sure. I'm doing this at night and im alone...I'm totally scared. Ok, well, that created tension for sure. He actualy smiled. I mean, when people do it like this, they are usually bad people. **BAD!!!** He probably has a plot or something. Oh! Maybe to get the spring? Ooooooh~"And there, standing on the road, was the man fom the night before, the man in the yellow suit, his black hat on his head." That aslo created some tension to me because I started wondering, why is her here? Whoa, is he here to ask Winnie some questions again, or to meet the....Tucks? That made me nervous. And also, in chapter four, the man in the yellow came and questioned Winnie and stuff. Just like I said for Question 4 in Chapter 4! I said that something was fishy! And I actually was right. Hooray!

**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 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 pharagraph.** Well, I think that they talk like this because they are precicely old. Not the grandpa and grandma old(looks), but like lived longer with nothing changing. If they are old, they should be old-fashioned. They lived more than fifty years or so and they were born way ahead of Winnie. The clothing also explains it! People didn't really wear petticoats those days(I think...) and even now we don't really wear them, too. As time flies,(like in centuries, not days and weeks) we talk differently. Grammer errors were common in the old days like when the Tucks actually lived, before they drank the bubbling spring. So, I automatically knew that they were from the old days, way before Winnie. I knew that because, In the days when Winnie was living, they didn't make a grammer mistake. Even Winnie's grandmother didn't make a grammer mistake. Not a single one. The Tucks did make grammer mistakes and they acted like there was notuing wrong and stuff, so they should of lived before Winnie and her grandmother.

**Chapter 10**
//Question #1//- **How does Babbitt describe the Tuck home? How does that differ from Winnie's home? Your home? Write a complete pharagraph. Please incorperate some quotes from the book.** Babbitt described the Tuck's home disordered, not organized, and of course, not tidy. In the kitchen, there is a stack of plates. Stacked as if the Tucks didn't care about the dishes. "The kitchen came first, with an open cabinet where dishes were stacked in perilous towers without the least regard for their varying dimensions." Then, in the parlor, there was a fireplace. The fire place was still deep from last winter."...like yet another mossy fallen log, facing a soot-streaked fireplace still deep in last winter's ashes." There were other things in rooms that was untidy, but I'm just going to do the two examples I wrote. The Tuck's house is probably different than Winnie's because its more untidy and Winnie's house is nice, clean, and tidy. Winnie's house is tidy because her grandmother and mother wants the house tidy, but the Tuck's act like they really didn't...care. Well, my house is the same as Winnie's house. My mom is always strict about the house being tidy. She even screams when she sees a dustball and a crumb! My mom gets really upset when my dad doesn't wash the dishes and wash the windows. She gets upset about almost everything if it itsn't clean! For example, my desk. Its full of books and she yells at me to clean it up. My mom always frowns when I give her an excuse so there is no way out.

**Chapter 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."** When Tuck says, "I got a feeling this whole thing is going to come apart like wet bread." he means that this whole matter will end up being unorganized or probably bad, I suppose. Its like a bread. If the bread is fresh, just out of the oven, it would be all crispy and delicious. But then, when you spill water on it, it will get soaked and fall apart and you don't want to eat it so its bad. Bread is made so you can eat it, but then you don't want to eat the bread that got soaked so it turned out as a failure, whis is bad. So, this matter is like that. This matter is suppose to be nice and under control, but then it might end up being bad and horrible. So, that is very bad. (I am very sorry that I couldn't explain this really well...) //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.** Here are five examples of figurative language in Chapter 12. Now, I listed five examples or maybe I should call it sentences. I am really sorry that I only got personification, not including one single simile.
 * "The sky was ragged blaze of red and pink and orange, and its double //trembled// on the surface of the pond //like// color spilled from a paintbox." This sentence can be found on page 60. There is personification and a simile. For the personification, the author was trying to say that the double which I don't really know what it is, shook slightly on the surface of the pond like color spilled from a paintbox which you should all know what that is.
 * "The sun was //dropping// fast now, a soft red //sliding// yolk, and already to the east there was a darkening to purple." This is a sentence where can be found on page 60. There is personification. For the sun, it meant that the day was going by quickly since the sun wass already coming down which happens around about 6:00 p.m. For the yolk, it was describing the sun going like I said, down and darkness which was described as purple was already coming.
 * "Across the pond a bullfrog //spoke// a deep note of warning." This sentence can be found on page 60. Now, there is another personification! The author was trying to tell us that the bullfrog croaked a deep croak to...probably tell her something or so.
 * "The rowboat //slipped// from the bank then, silently, and //glided out//, tall water grasses //whispering away// from the sides, //releasing// it." This sentence can be found, again, on page 60. This is another personification. This meant that the rowboat probably was tied with a rope to the ground and then the rope became loose. Then it sailed out. The water grasses usually make whispering sounds when they sway and maybe it let the rowboat go. Let him free.
 * "The sun //sucks// some of it up right out of the ocean and //carries// it back in clouds, and then it rains, and the rain falls into the stream, and the stream keeps //moving// on, //taking// it all back again." This is on page 62. Yes, it is another personification. Maybe my senses only look for personification. The was trying to tell that the sun sucks up the ocean water and brings it to the clouds. So, then it rains and the rain falls to the stream and the stream keeps on flowing, getting the water back again. Maybe this is a little hard to explain and understand.

**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).** Tuck's feelings towards eternal life isn't really a nice one. He feels a little bored. He wants things to change like for example, his life. I don't think he really wants to live forever and it would be worse if nothing changed in his life. Even I would be bored about my life not changing. I mean, you'll at least have to die, right? And if you don't die, then you would probably feel weird because your not dieing no matter what. He probably also feels a bit sad since you can't die while your life is not changing. Mae feels a little sad and well...serious about her family and her living forever. So, I guess she feels the same as Tuck, but not really bored about it. Miles feels the same, sad and serious just like what Jesse said. Mae, Tuck, and Miles don't know how to enjoy themselves. Though, unlike his family, he enjoys living forever and thinks its pretty exciting, too."We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.", he means that they are getting ignored and not getting intrested because all rocks to is that they just stay there and do nothing. The people don't have any intrests in just normal rocks that you can see everywhere and everytime. So they are just them and just be there, on their world. //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.** If the Tucks were really living on Earth, and they came to my town this year, I think they would be like in the park. I think that they would be looking or be staring at the swings, seesaws, and other things because they weren't there when they were with Winnie. I think they would be in the park because they probably won't be comfortable with talking to modern peolpe who lived waaaaaaay after them. So, they would probably be in a p lace where not much people are. I think I would recognize them by their clothing. You know, old (people who lived long) people wear different clothing from their age like petticoats, maybe trouserws, and other clothing that people wore waaaaaaaaay before us which probably was from the 1880s.

**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 learned that the man in the yellow suit was a bit of a bad person because he wanted to own the wood so he can get his hands on the bubbling spring. It says, ""You know," he said thoughtfully, "I've come a long way, looking for a wood exactly like the one you've got next door here. It would mean a great deal to me to own it.". He said that to the Fosters except Winnie and there shows a hint that he wants the wood for himslef and drink the water to become immortal. I knew that man in the yellow suit was bad. I just knew it. As I said, he shows a hint that he wanted to own the wood to drink the bubbling spring to become immortal. "I've got what you want, and you've got what I want." thats another thing that he said. Now I think that he is bad and mean. He probably is doing a super mean trade. Well, it isn't really a legal trade, but to me...its kinda mean. I don't really know how to explain what kind of trade I think it is, but the closest word is probably mean. //Question #2//- **Why do you think he wants to make this deal with the Fosters?** I guess I said the answer for question #2 in question #1, but I will tell you again. He wants to make this deal with the Fosters because he wants to get hold of the bubbling spring. //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 Babbitt didn't put any dialogue for the Fosters because the main person also saying the important person in this whole story is probably the yellow suit man. Well, the Fosters except Winnie, are probably the minor characters, not the major charactors. Also, the Fosters shouldn't talk while a man who knows where their valuable daughter is. Thats another good reason, yes? Also, the author probably wants to get our attention because we don't care about the Fosters. We all probably are suspicious about the yellow suit and want to find out more about the yellow suit. Then, **BOOM**! There it is. On chapter 15, there is what we are looking for. A chapter all about the important yellow suit and the unimportant(not really) Fosters which there is no Winnie in it. P.S. (Please don't show it to the class! If you do, I think my whole head is going to explode with embarrassment! ><)

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 constable talks about the gallows because someone might die because of the gallows and stuff, so its there to hang for people who kidnapped children or any person, murdering and other crom things. So, probably Babbitt (Natalie Bbabbit) is trying to give us a hint that people will soon find out that the Tucks did it and get the location to their house and arrest them and force them to the gallows and hang them. Then probably the Tucks would get their last words and when, they get hang, they should just pretend to die by making some weird facial expression and stuff. But, they can't fool the freaky man in the yellow suits since he already know their so secretive and wonderful (to bad people) secret.

**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 Miles was similar to her conversation with Angus because they both acted the same, except Miles was a little happier. Miles and Angus explained what they wanted to do or so or explained something that happened to them or why they did this or why did they do that or they etheir said something about the spring, well something about it. Like Miles talked about his family and if the world drank the spring then they would be crushed because of its population which would never turn meager. Angus talked about what he wanted to change, for instance, change! And Miles had something he wanted to locate something or so. See? They wanted to do something which probably includes not drinking the water from the start. It kind of clearly tells that they are bored of this. //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 didn't have his family drink from the spring because his dad (Tuck) told him that the less people who knows about the spring, the better. So, he didn't tell his family or so. Also, he talked about wanting to find them, but them having a dad whos close to their age and stuff. So, if I was in his shoes, I would...well...never let them drink the spring because...well...it would be better to die and go to heaven, right? I mean, suffering great pain, but never dying would be a little...terrible, right? I mean, to me, if I did drink the spring, that would sure be a very bleak situation to me because...please see the prologue because you will see why. Anyways, they would see horrible sights, suffer great pain or so. So thats why. Anyways, how can I know the future and how should I know what will come to us? So, its better for me to suffer great pain than my family. And if they do suffer great pain, that would really break my heart and a it would definately want me to kill myself about at least 1000000000000000 times. (hmmm...maybe not 1000000000000000 times, but at least a whole lot....) ^.^;;

**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 for Mae to escape from jail was that Miles to take the eindow frame off the jail window I think and so Mae can go through it. So, now that was the plan, but then Winnie volunteered to be in it and she insisted on being in the plan. So, after Mae went through, she would go in and be wrapped in Mae's blanket and act like Mae so the constable would think that she is Mae. Then Jesse gave in and went when Winnie said something to her grandmother who asked who she was talking to and Winnie answered that it was just a boy that she was talking to. I think it isn't a really good plan, but that is the only thing I can think of so its ok. I think its ok because they all would probably end up with Mae because helping someone escape is a little...well a little bad? So, I think it is a little bad because they would maybe end up with Mae, but its kinda good because they were going to take that risk for their mom or wife for Tuck. //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.** I think Winnie was a little nervous when she was waiting in her room until midnight because there really wasn't anything to do even though you can think things over and stuff. "Winnie wandered restlessly about her room, sat in her rocker, lay on her bed, counted ticks of the hall clock." She was restless and you become restless when you become nervous like when you have a confrence and your parents are late. You would be all whiny and restless. Here's another example. "Winnie squirmed, sitting in the rocker, and swallowed uncomfortably." Its basically the same, you are nervous! I also think that Winnie felt confident when she was waiting, too. She thought about the Tucks and thought how they needed her. "Thinking of Tuck and Mae, of Miles and Jesse, her heart softened. They needed her. To take care of them." She thought that she could do this and believed in that and that probably calmed her down a bit. "She would not disappoint them. Mae would go free." Yes, she wanted to believe that she could do this and she grew more confident and said Mae would go free. Oh, yes! When I was young(kinder), my friend broke her arm and leg because she tripped down the stairs and rolled down the stairs which had 56 stairs in a row in total. My teacher instructed us not to visit her because only one person can visit her a day which will always be her mother. That girl was my best friend so I really needed to see her. So, the following day, after school, I went to her house and tried to find her mother. Luckily, she was there. You see, I made a plan last night. I would beg her mother to stay home and let me visit, but if that didn't work...well there is always plan B. I have a lot of plans, and if you don't believe me, ask June of Sabin. I found her and I begged and begged. She said no. Then, I grew mad. I said, "you know, I'm her bestest(I know, its best, but please! I was a kindergartener back then!) friend and she probably wants to see me,too!" and I said that. I was confident that she would give in let me go and visit her. But then, I was kind of nervous, thinking if she would say no. I kept on saying to myself, "Its alright, I can just beat Mrs. Lee(the mom) and go to the hospital first and I can meet my best friend! So, no problem, no problem." Then, she did something that kind of discouraged me. She made a face. She frowned first, then she smiled. THen she frowned, then she smiled. Then she frowned, and then she grinned, with her really bright white teeth shinig so bright. I guessed that she was contemplating whether if she should just ignore me or let me go. She decided to let me go and I grinned and went to visit her. I also was nervous what to say to my best friend. "Would if she will get mad at me for wasting my time / Awwww.....its ok! We are best friends anyway!^^" and then I skipped and skipped. I arrived at the hospital and told the nurse that I was looking for Rachel(my best friend) and I also told her that I was coming instead of her mother. She simply smiled and lead me to Rachel's room. I went in and then Rachel was smiling that bright smile like her mother(she probably adopted it that from her because her dad downs't have that kind of smile. Believe me, I saw her dad's smile and it was not pleasant). Then she frowned. Then, she said somthing that really~totally~annoyed me. SHe stared at me and frowned again. "You're aren't my mom. Who are you?" Yes, that was really mean of her. Probably she forgot me for that moment. But still.................-.-;;

Chapter 24-Epilogue

//Question #1//- **In your own words, describe how the weather changes from the beginning of the chapter to the end of the chapter.** Ok, at first waaaaaaaaaay before this chapter, in the Prologue, Babbitt tells us thats it is Autumn. The days are breathless. Then, in chapter 24, there was thunder and maybe rain. The book said that the storm was coming near and They were working on putting out the window frame out. Then its finally rains and there was thunder. And it turned out that the storm came. I knew that the weather changed because if you look at the Prologue, it says there is no thunder and rain in the breathless days which means summer in August. Yes, it really says that there is no rain and thunder in August and so it should be a little chilly now since there was a storm when Winnie nad the others were trying ot save Mae by pulling out the window frame from the jail house. And also in Chapter 25, its says that August was no over and Autumn was just a few weeks away! //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.__** This is not really a good one, well not a bad one, but it is a little weird. When they go and try to free Mae, we get all excited and wonder what is going to happen. Its really like in a movie. When exited things happen, things happen like the weather like this. The thunder gets loud and rain purs down like in movies. You know, when excited things like helping a person run away from a bad situation or someone, music or things make the event more exciting. now, for this book, the weather is making the event more exciting. "The sky flashed white".............."Then-a flash of lightning and, soon after, a crack of thunder. In the midst of the noise, Miles gave a mighty heave. But the window did not budge." See? There was lightning and then thunder and the window did not budge which was kind of exciting. You would probably get so excited and really wonder what would come next. "Again a flash of lightning, and this time a crashing burst of noise from the swirling sky. Miles yanked. The window frame sprang free, and still grasping it by the bars, he tumbled backward off the box. The job was done."(!) And at the end of that chapter which is Chapter 24, the storm stops and the Tucks were gone. Even though that happened pretty fast, it was at least an ok one, right? I was also thinking about some other event and I was going to type it down here, but I stopped myself just in time. It says that the storm(Lightning) made the tree fall and cause fire and destroyed everything including the ground and soil so it also destroyed the spring. And thats why Winnie died. That was what I was thinking. But then, I remembered that Jesse gave Winnie a bottle with the spring water in it. And Winnie kept it. "Look now- here's a bottle of water from the spring. You keep it. And then, no matter where you are, when you're seventeen, Winnie, you can drink it, and then come find us." Thats what Jesse said. And then later...."Winnie clutched the little bottle in her hands and tried to control the rising excitement that made her breath catch." And she didn't lose it! Well, thats what I think. So, she could have drank the water from the bottle instead of the spring, so she must have died in an another way. I might be wrong, but thats really what I think. //Chapter #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 that Mae and Tuck feels satisfied because no one can become immortal and no one can, of course, sell the water like the man in the yellow suit who everyone in the Tuck family and Winnie hated. So, I think that Tuck and Mae are satisfied. I feel the same way as Tuck and Mae. No one can be immortal and the good part is that no one knows about the spring except the Tucks, at least people who are alive. I didn't like the man in the yellow suit and probably men who found out about the spring would be like him since all men are like that and thats why I just don't understand men selling such water, because even though selling the water for a high price would be good, but I wouldn't ever do that becuase I am a person who will always be like the Tucks! But then, somwhere inside me was a little disappointed. I wanted the story to forget about what the man had said about the spring and forget about what happened to the ground and spring. Then it would end like this: //"The Tucks went, on with their journey for a new home somewhere not in Treegap. The clouds ran across the colorful painted sky as the tinkling melody of the music box sang a song. And the spring of immortality under the rocks, sat there waiting for it to be drinken."// I hope it isn't bad because I am bad at making stories!

**Tuck Movie and Book Comparison**
//Question #1//-**List three __major__ differences between the book and the movie.** In the book, Jesse was found sitting under the tree, I think playing something and drank the bubbling water. But then, in the movie, he was just found drinking the water and I think washing his face. So, that example was one example that was different to each other, and I was quite disappointed because of that. Another one is that Jesse and Winnie didn't go camping togethor. Like, in the movie, they went off somewhere and had some kind of grand time, and they even showed that they camped somewhere and made a fire and suddenly Miles came out of nowhere and told Winnie his story about his lovely family who went away. In the book they tell us that they didn't go camping togethor, but they just talked about something. And the grand time was really disgusting. And the last one was in the end, Mae and Tuck wasn't there and saw Winnie's grave, but it was Jesse who saw Winnie's grave and I guess he was really sad and depressed. In the book Mae and Tuck go to this cafe or somwhere and they ordered some kind of drink, maybe it was coffee or water. Then they went to the cementry and saw Winnie's grave and they went off because they said that there was no point in living in Treegap. //Question #2//- **Why do you think the movie had these differences? (Be specific.)** I think that they had these differences because they either wanted to make the movie more exciting or more interesting that the book, or they couldn't act it out, like maybe they didn't have an instrument for Jesse to play, or he couldn't even play one. Maybe it is going to be boring if Winnie and Jesse just go somewhere and talk. So they probably made it more interesting by putting in more details. And maybe it will also be boring if Mae and Tuck go to Winnie's grave and not the person who loved eachother like Winnie and Jesse. So maybe they cahnged it a liitle bit because it was going to be litttle boring if they acted it our right from the book or they either coudln't act it out from the book since it was maybe impossible or hard to do. //Question #3//-**Which version (the book or the movie) did you like better and why?** I liked the book better because it had more details and it at least didn't show disgusting things that at least kids shouldn't watch. Also, I like reading books better than watching things like videos and stuff. So, I think reading is better. I gave you two examples why I like the book. The movie had some funny parts that I liked. One is when they tried to resuce Mae and tuck. When the man shot Jesse and Miles, they acted like they died and then they rose up like they were zombies. That was really funny and I really like that part. Maybe that was the only part that I enjoyed. But still, the book had way more details and events that I like better than the movie.