The road that led to Treegap had been trod out long before by a herd of cows who were, to say the least, relaxed. But sometimes people find this out too late. Fixed points they are, and best left undisturbed, for without them, nothing holds together. A Ferris wheel has one, as the sun is the hub of the wheeling calendar. The wood was at the center, the hub of the wheel. But things can come together in strange ways. He was looking for someone, but he didn’t say who. She was going there, as she did once every ten years, to meet her two sons, Miles and Jesse.Īt noontime, Winnie Foster, whose family owned the Treegap wood, lost her patience at last and decided to think about running away.Īnd at sunset a stranger appeared at the Fosters’ gate. One day at that time, not so very long ago, three things happened and at first there appeared to be no connection between them.Īt dawn, Mae Tuck set out on her horse for the wood at the edge of the village of Treegap.
These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. 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 wheel when it pauses in its turning. I would also have them write a newspaper article about the jailbreak. I would have students write a paper on whether they would like to be immortal. It was a sweet book with just a little bit of a love story in it. It did have a good story line, but at times I felt it was rushed. The Tucks break her out of jail and Jesse gives Winnie some of the water to drink when she is a little older if she wants.This was definitely an interesting book. Mae is taken into custody and is supposed to be hanged, but because she is immortal, if the town tries to hang her her secret will be revealed.
A man who had been following them, comes to get Winnie but the Tucks feel like he is trying to kidnap her Mae Tuck hits him with a gun and he dies.
While there she learns that the family is immortal because they drank from the stream. He takes her to meet his family, and she stays with them a few days. She too starts to drink, but the boy, Jesse Tuck, stops her. While there she sees a boy drinking from a stream. One day she decides to go against the rules and go into the woods outside her house. In the story, a young girl named Winnie Foster is very sheltered child. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit is a fantasy book.
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