Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbitt By: Ashley Miller

Story Legend Home SettingCharacters Character Study ProblemPlotResolutionBibliography

Setting Touch Me Not Cottage: The cottage is Winnie’s house, where she lives with her mother, father, and grandmother. It gets it’s name because it is fenced in, making it untouchable. The Woods: The Fosters own the woods next to their house. Most of the story takes place here because the Tuck’s cottage is in the woods. The Tuck’s cottage: The cottage is a small house where Mae and Tuck live. Mae and Tuck’s sons, Miles and Jesse come to stay with them sometimes.

Characters The Fosters: Winnie: She is a ten year old girl who is tired of being bossed around. She meets the Tucks and learns their secret. Parents and grandmother: They are very strict and are always worrying about Winnie. The Tucks: Angus/Tuck: Very sad about living forever. Envious of people who die. Mae: Mae is very happy and forgets that they live forever. She has excepted that they are going to live forever and cares about Winnie, and getting Winnie home. Miles: After Miles drank the water, his family noticed that he wasn’t aging. His wife thought that he might have been practicing witch craft, so she took the kids and left. Jesse: Jesse is very happy that he can live forever because he is very adventurous and handsome. He wants Winnie to drink the water so they can run away together. The Man in the Yellow Suit: He is a scary guy who has been trying to hunt down the Tucks for many, many years.

Character Study Jesse: Jesse is a very outgoing person who enjoys living forever. He is the son of Mae Tuck, the son of Angus Tuck, and the brother of Jesse Tuck. Jesse wants to run away with Winnie, the girl the Tucks found, and get married when she turns seventeen. Jesse cares about Winnie and he wants her to drink the water. Miles: Before Miles drank the water, he was married with two kids, and he was very happy. Miles’s wife noticed that he was not aging, so she took her kids because she thought that he was practicing witch craft. Now that he is all alone, he is very depressed and just wants to die. Miles doesn’t want Winnie to drink the water because he think she deserves to live a good life, and then die so she wouldn’t have to go through what is happening to him and the Tucks.

Problem One main problem is that the Tucks have Winnie and they don’t know how to get her back to the Touch Me Not Cottage without being arrested for kidnapping her. Another problem is that the man in the yellow suit saw the Tucks taking Winnie on their horse and he is very suspicious. Since the man knows where Winnie is, he blackmails the Fosters into selling him their woods and in return, he will bring back Winnie. When the man in the yellow suit finds Winnie at the Tuck’s cottage, he tries to take her away from the Tucks. In defense of Winnie, Mae hits the man in the head with the butt of her shotgun. The only problem is that the sheriff was standing right there when Mae hits the man. The sheriff witnessed it so he took Mae to jail. Now Winnie has to help the Tucks save Mae so they can move again.

Plot Winnie sees the frog and it makes her think about running away Wonders into the forest Meets Jesse by the spring The Tucks kidnap her While she is getting kidnapped, she sees the man in the yellow suit Learns the Tuck’s story about how they drank the water, and the man in the yellow suit hears Go to the Tuck’s cottage in the woods Man in the yellow suit steals the Tuck’s horse Jesse and Winnie talk about getting married Man in the yellow suit buys the woods from the Fosters Winnie goes fishing with Miles Man comes back to the Tuck’s house Mae kills him by hitting him in the head with the butt of a shotgun Mae goes to prison and Winnie helps the Tucks get her out so she doesn’t get hung

Resolution The man in the yellow suit died from his hit to the head Winnie was found in the jail and returned to her house The Tucks were never seen again after saving Mae in jail Winnie never drank the water and Mae and Tuck found her grave After Winnie escaped from the jail she took the bottle of the water from the spring and poured it on the frog that gave her the courage to run away, so the frog could live forever

Bibliography Babbit, Natalie. Tuck Everlasting. New York: Square Fish, 1975.