![]() Decades later, Angus discovers that Winnie chose not to drink the water and died at age 78 after getting married and having children. A few weeks later, she gives the water that Jesse gave her to the toad. She decides to help the Tucks break Mae out of jail by taking Mae's place, which she believes is a way of making a difference in the world. Winnie knows that the man was going to do a horrible thing but also believes that killing is wrong. Mae clubs the man over the head, killing him. The next morning, the man in the yellow suit shows up and threatens to make Winnie drink the water so she can help him sell it. She begins to believe Angus that being immortal is a curse, though Jesse invites her to drink the water when she's 17. Through several conversations with Angus and Miles, Winnie confronts the fact that she's going to eventually die. She vacillates between being scared and feeling as though the Tucks are dear friends as she gets to know them. Study questions and answers, character sketches, and a book summary are included. Here is a series of lesson plans for the novel Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. There, Winnie is shocked to discover that the Tucks live a happy yet disordered life that’s completely different from her own. This post is part of the series: English Literature Lesson Plans Tuck Everlasting Unit. Winnie doesn't believe them, as she's not one for fairytales or fantasy stories, but nonetheless agrees to go with her kidnappers to their homestead. Jesse, his brother Miles, and his mother Mae whisk Winnie away and tell her a fantastical story about becoming immortal after drinking from the stream. Sitting relaxed with his back against the trunk was a boy, almost a man. There was a clearing directly in front of her, at the center of which an enormous tree thrust up, its thick roots rumpling the ground ten feet around in every direction. ![]() There, she meets a young man named Jesse drinking from a stream, and she's immediately attracted to him. 20 of the best book quotes from Tuck Everlasting. Though Winnie loses her nerve overnight because she's afraid of being alone, she does decide to take a walk in her family's wood. She tells all of this to a toad on the other side of the fence outside her house, adding that she wants to make a difference in the world. ![]() When the reader first meets Winnie, she's deliberating about running away to escape the stifling care of her mother, father, and Granny, whom she believes pay her too much attention. The ten-year-old protagonist of the novel.
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