5A-Jee-TuckResponses

=Tuck Everlasting Responses=

//Prologue// If I had an opportunity to live long, I wouldn't use that opportunity because if you are the only one eternal, it would be solitary, **//boring//**!(booooo//)//, and I do not want to still be short for forever. I would want to be about, 30 because you will stop growing, can get a job, and can be married. **IF** there was a miracle that would be eternal, I would be miserable,wanting to die(sometimes), and I would regret it. Sometimes it is good like when you were about to die, or have cancer, something like that, it will be supportive.Still I would never want to be eternal(unless my friends are going to...).

//Chapter One// The way Nataile Babbit is looking forward to the view is where the ownership of land. She says that the ownership of land can be ended all the way through the center where we all meet the other homes. I kind of agree on her view because we never know where the land will end, and any way i'm pretty sure that the ownership of land is quite long because population will increase,and if population will increase ownership of land will increase.

//Chapter Two// I noticed that when Nataile Babbit described the setting, she says the setting very detailed, like exactly there, such as //**At dawn**, Mae Tuck set out on her horse **for the wood at the edge of the village of Treegap**// (p.4).

//Chapter Three// In chapter three, she described the setting as if she was an artist making shadows and coloring the story, like //**on the bristly grass**,// bristly means to rise up, so that sounds like giving texture.

//Chapter Four// In chapter four, Babbit described the characters very detailed, the background with other people or enviormental stuff. I think //He was remarkably tall and narrow...//and so on //and this time intent on catching fireflies...//(p.17) is a good example of the variety of her style of describing the setting.

//Chapter Five// In chapter five, Jesse doesn't let Winnie eat the water because if you drink it, she will become eternal, and not telling her might make her mad and then she might spread rumors. If I was Jesse, I would do the same way because I do not want to let people to eat the water and regret. Being eternal might sound good as like in the story //**Nothing never seems interesting when it belongs to youㅡonly when it doesn't exactly like that**.// The right way to treat others which Jesse did is that he did not let Winnie drink the water. If I wouldn't agree with Jesse than almost everyone in the world would come to drink it and it would be a huge disaster.

//Chapter Six// 1.No, Nataile Babbit is trying to tell us that she has tears (cold running water) which means that she cried, but she did not exactly tell the whole truth because it will be boring.Also, a same description or kind of a metaphor is about the cow which was, //**It widened and seemed to pause, suggesting tranquil bovine picnics**// (pg.5) that sounds like the path widened by the calm cows in their picnic. Another description is **//would have trembled on its axis like a beetle on a pin//** (pg.8), I think this means that on earth there is the axis, but it trembles little like a beetle. 2.When Winnie saw the man, she did not do anything because he was a stranger and we never know if that stranger is an honest person. Winnie had just met him once, talked to him once, and he is a stranger, somebody that nobody knows. I would do the same thing because I do not know that person, but if the man was a relative or someone I trusted I wouldn't.It could be freaky about the stranger because he might kidnapp her, or do something bad.

//Chapter Seven// Jesse means that the plan was suppose to be used some other way, but instead it became a bad leftover that will make something bad happened now. I think the plan was that a scientist named Scientist Ozima, was having all his special chemicals with him to make a brilliant invention with a well, but he kept on failing to complete the invention, so he was mad that he threw all the chemicals like Bubbling-x-o-max something like that. Sorrowfully, the well became bubbling and bubbling that it spalshed to the tree that has a carved T on it so thats why it became an eternal disgusting water.

//Chapter Eight// The stranger was the one who overheard the secret. The tension of the stranger is very exciting because he knows the melody of the music box, is finding an old family. I think the stranger is Miles's son because if you're Miles's son, you would probaly know the melody, and know Miles is eternal. So far he has overheard the secret, know who has kidnapped Winnie, and knows the melody of the music box because in the book says //**that then he turned and disappeared down the shadowy road, and as he went he whistled, very softly, the tinkling little melody from the wood.**//

//Chapter Nine & Ten// 1.The Tuck's house is a **//barn-red//** house with three rooms. Babbit describes the house like an ordinary **//homely house//** with a kitchen, the parlor, the bedroom, the **//steep flight of narrow stairs was dusty loft,//** and //**the old beamed ceiling of the parlor**//. She describes the house very detailed about the features for example like **//the arms of the sofa webbed with strands of thread and dangerous with needles//** it tells even what are on things. It is different with Winnie's house because the Foster's house has a type of house for example touch-me-not-cottage, does not sleep on steep stairs, does not have dangerous needles, and unfinished sewing patches. As like Winnie's differences our house has more than three rooms, all family members sleep in beds, have clean and new dolls, a one floor house, an apartment not a house, and use iron spoons. 2.I think it is a curse because no way you can be eternal for more than 80 years, and also I saw a movie called //Pirates of the Carribian The Curse of the Black Pearl// the main character's past pirate had a curse that at night they become skeletones so they're also eternal, but if they find a necklace and scrape your hand with a knife, the curse is removed. Somehow the Tuck's didn't do anything yet, they will soon be removed from the curse some day.

//Chapter Eleven & Twelve// Tuck was the most miserable and hated being eternal. He explains in the third quote that he is like a rock (metaphor) cause a rock is always there which means eternal, like the Tucks' and **//we just be//** mean that they can only be like rocks not like plants, animals, humans, and can't be in heaven. Tuck's feelings are the most emphasizing and mostly wanting to die since he had a long life. The others, Miles, Jesse, and Mae have different feelings. Jesse kinds of like being eternal since you can see the things from generation to generation. Miles is also not liking being eternal because he was once married, but his family went, so his heart was broken. Lastly, Mae doesn't enjoy her life, she can't do anything about it since sh's eternal. She sees Tuck always dreaming about heaven, but she doesn't because that will never happen.

//Chapter Fourteen// Jesse suggests Winnie that when she is seventeen she could go to the woods and take a drink of water and be married with him for forever.I predit Winnie would say "yes" because whenever she talks with Jesse, she always blushes or becomes embarrassed like pg.71 **//in sudden embarrassment//** and on pg.26 //**embarrassed and,**// and pg. 25 **//so glorious to Winnie that she lost her heart at once//**. Also since she **//adores//** Jesse she would probally say "yes". If I was Winnie, I wouldn't because first of all, I will become eternal and all of my parents will be in heaven, including my best friends Jamie and my parents won't forgive the Tucks' behavior as like in the story. When we keep on living together, you might see another person you like, then its going to be a ghastly mistake, and I will regret for forever for marring Jesse. Also, I do not like to marry an old man because he looks like 17, but he is really 104.

//Chapter Fifteen & Sixteen// 1.The Stranger seems very rude to the Foster's because in page 75 **//if he were seeing nothing there but calm agreement, he smiled delightedly and rubbed his hands together//** means that he only made the agreement of having the opportunity of the trade between the Foster's and him. Also he is very selfish, because on page 74 it says **//I want the wood and you want the child. It's a trade. A simple, clear-cut trade//** that means that he wants the wood because he heard the Tucks' secret that they become eternal. If he wants the wood that means that he is suprised about the wood. 2.The constable reacts that he is very annoyed by the stranger because the stranger woke him up very early, which made him annoyed by the stranger.Also, he thought the stranger was suspicious, and said that he had nothing about that crime before. The stranger said that he was going to go ahead and wait for the constable there. However, I think the constable thinks that the stranger is a suspicous because he woke up the constable in the early morning. Also, the constable was very lazy to solve the crime. Even though the stranger seems weird, the stranger is very sly and mysterious.The constable is lazy that there is not a lot of people in Treegap. The stranger acts that kind of sly, weird, bossy, selfish, e.t.c. because he only wants the forest since if you drink the water you become eternal. He doesn't care about Winnie, he just wants the forest, but he has to bring Winnie back carelessly with no interest. The stranger is sly because he says that he will go first than the constable. The bossiness of the stranger is that when he made the agreement he said to do only in his way, that makes him bossy. The stranger is also greedy because he only wants himself to get the water that Mae was talking about. Another thing that is weird is that he goes so fast than the constable, which makes the constable lonely.

//Chapter Seventeen & Eighteen// 1. Miles did not take his family to the spring because he did not know until he realized while he was still on the farm. Later finding his family he thought about his wife, nearly forty, and his kids were nearly the same age lookings on them, so he didn't give the water to his family. No, but if I was humane, I would not give the water to my family because in the book it says that they do not want anyone to know it and also Yes, but if I was malicious, I would give the water because I do not want only my self to get harm, so I would give it to people or I'll give it to my family and friends because it will to solitary for me, the only living girl. 2.Winnie's conversation with Miles is similar because when she asked, **"//What will you do if you've got so much time?"//** Miles said that he will **//find a way to do important and people got to do something useful if they're going to take up space inthe world//** which Winnie agrees on, but Angus is hiding his self away and says that there is nothing good to do since he is living a lot. Angus also doesn't like having a lot of time, if he knew how to die he said that he would do it in a minute.Winnie's conversation with Angus is that Angus doesn't want Winnie to be eternal, and always talks about the miserablness of being eternal. As like when Winnie talks with Angus about the boat, that represents the life cycle when Miles talks with Winnie about the fish which represents the substance of life.

//Chapter Nineteen & Twenty// 1.Somehow I do not agree on his argument, because that is not good to say to a person, and having the wood just to get rich is very cruel to do. If I was him I wouldn't sell the water to people, as like the Tucks', they say that he shouldn't give the water because they will regret for forever. Once he starts that business, then everybody in the world will have some and might be regretful, sad, and mad at him. Also the man says that the Tucks' shouldn't have got the water, certain people like him should have gotton is a bad description to say. The Tucks' were just going to be humane about the water, so he did not contribute the water to people. 2.I think that Tuck was very shocked and astonished of Mae's behavior, so he open his mouth. When he doesn't look at Mae means that he is to embarresed of her behavior and when he gazed at the man with the yellow suit, that represents that he is worried if he is dead or not. If I was him I wouldn't care because even though Mae gets the gallows, she wouldn't die, but I would care when she, a women threw the shot gun on the man's skull. If you hit a person's head, you kill 100 brain cells which is pretty bad. Also, kidnapping and murdering is a pretty bad incident to do.

//Chapter Twenty-one// I once also had that kind of situation when I killed a fly. Whenever I kill a fly, 60% I'm happy and 40% I'm regretful of doing that behavior. Somehow I want to kill a fly because it can bother me, but once you kill a fly, your feelings become melancholy because the fly didn't do any thing wrong enough to take his soul. After I killed something I thought that animals, insects, or humans' lives are important.

//Chapter Twenty-two// I think that Pa wouldn't let Winnie help Mae because she got kidnapped from them and doesn't want to make another big crime since her parents would be miserable again. If I would be his perspective I would be the same, I wouldn't want to make another mess that will inculde gultiness. If I was Winnie's point of view I would help Mae escape because they were Winnie's friends and Mae meant to murder the yellow man because she wanted to help Winnie. Winnie's perspective should be able to support Mae, without her, the wood have become the yellow man's property.

//Chapter Twenty-three & Twenty-four// I think //**"Stone walls do not a prison make,Nor iron bars a cage."**// means that a prisoner can not get out of stone walls which represents a room that is made with stone and even iron bars in jail. Winne thought of that quote because at that time she was watching Miles carpentering the window to get Mae since she can't get out of jail, the stone walls and the iron bars someone else needs to support her. Also maybe she thought of other people in jail that getting out of jail of a crime is very hard unless there is an accomplice or you get a runaway, but it is very hard to runaway because you don't have any materials.

//Chapter Twenty-five & Epilogue// If I was Winnie I would do the same thing because liking a criminal is a very bad thing to do. I wouldn't drink the water too, cause the points that Tuck, Miles, and Jesse told was that while talking in the boat it seemed very reasonable to me and speaking of Jesse even though if he and Winnie liked each other, I wouldn't runaway from my family since there is lots of men that I can like, but there is only one family for you, so the result is reasonable. The water is a big mistake for Earth, because once you drink it you would become eternal and you would be so happy but once you live for more years and more years, you will be regretful. The Tucks are luckily the only ones that will know or maybe not but perhaps living as much as you want and dieing will be more like living.