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Tuck Everlasting Study Guide
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02/09/2022

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What is the setting of Tuck Everlasting?
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1873
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Why is Winnie not allowed to leave the front yard at the beginning of the story?
Definition
Her family is very protective, and are afraid of what be in the wood (elves?).
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Why has nobody (other than the Tucks) discovered the spring of immortality?
Definition
The cows had created the road that went around the wood, and the Tucks had put a pile of pebbles that then block the spring.
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Why is Tuck upset that Mae wakes him up in the beginning of the story?
Definition
He was having a good dream—"the one where we're all in heaven and never heard of Treegap."
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Why does the man in the yellow suit want the first time he goes to Winnie's house?
Definition
He's looking for someone—a family.
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Why is Winnie kidnapped? What helps Winnie calm down afterwards?
Definition
Winnie saw the spring and said she'd tell her father about it. Mae's music box helps her calm down.
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How did the Tucks become immortal?
Definition
When they were traveling they came to Treegap and started living west of town. On their way through town, they all drink from the spring (as did their horse, but not their cat). They later learn that they can't get hurt, nor are they aging.
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How did the Tucks' friends and familiy (Miles' wife) react when the Tucks didn't age normally?
Definition
She left and took the kids with her—she thought that Miles had sold his soul to the devil.
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How does Tuck feel about his immortality? How are the Tucks like the rowboat on the pond? How are they like rocks on the road?
Definition
1.) He doesn't like not being a part of the natural order of things.
2.)He and his family go over the water. They a part of "the wheel".
3.) "We just be." They just stay there, while the rest of the world moves along.
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How does the man in the yellow suit blackmail the Fosters?
Definition
He is the only one who knows where Winnie is, so he agrees to return Winnie to them if they give him the wood.
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How did the man in the yellow suit discover the story of the Tucks?
Definition
His grandmother had met Anna (Miles' wife) and his grandmother told him the stories of the family that never aged.
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What was the man in the yellow suit's plan for the spring water?
Definition
He was going to sell the water to only "special" people
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What did Mae do to the man in the yellow suit? Why did she do this? Who sees it?
Definition
She grabs the old gun and hits the man in the yellow suit in the head with the stock of the gun. She did this because the man grabbed Winnie and was going to use her for his promotion of the water. The town constable was the one who saw it happen.
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Who gives Winnie a bottle of spring water? When is she supposed to drink?
Definition
Jesse gives her the water, and she is supposed to drink it when she is 17.
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Why is Tuck worried about Mae being hung on the gallows?
Definition
Because then their secret will be out, and the spring will be exposed.
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Describe the plan for Mae's escape
Definition
Miles takes the window frame out from the jail cell, and they pull Mae out. Then Winnie will take Mae's place for the night, so the constable doesn't notice.
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What does Winnie do with the spring water Jesse gives her?
Definition
She dumps it on the toad that was always outside of her house—the one that she was friends with.
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Who visits Treegap in the epilogue? What do they find?
Definition
Mae and Tuck. They fidn that Treegap is completely different, the wood/spring is gone, and they find a cemetery with Winnie's grave.
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What year is it in the epilogue?
Definition
1950. Winnie died in 1948. It's been 2 years since she died, and 70 years since the Tucks left Treegap.
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Sequencing
Definition
1.) The man in the yellow suit hears a music box in the Fosters home
2.) Winnie is kidnapped by Mae Tuck
3.) The man in the yellow suit makes a deal with the Fosters to get the wood
4.) Mae Tuck is saved from jail and the gallows.
5.) The Tucks save a toad on the road from being run over
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Simile
Definition
comparing two objects using like or as
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Metaphor
Definition
comparing two objects without using like or as
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Hyperbole
Definition
a phrase used in great exaggeration, not meant to be literal
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Personification
Definition
Giving human-like characteristics to non-human objects
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Alliteration
Definition
The repeating of the same consonant at the beginning of multiple words
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Protagonist
Definition
The main character in the story

Ex: Winnie Foster
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Antagonist
Definition
The character that causes the most conflicts for the protagonist (aka the villain)

Ex: The Man in the Yellow Suit
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Points of View
Definition
The way/style in which a story is told

In Tuck: 3rd person
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Setting
Definition
When and where a story takes place

in Tuck: Treegap in 1880
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Elation
Definition
Great happiness or exhilaration
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Exertion
Definition
physical or mental effort
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Hysterical
Definition
out of control or frantic
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Melancholy
Definition
a feeling of sadness
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Perilous
Definition
full of danger or risk
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Remnants
Definition
small bits remaining; the leftovers
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scornful
Definition
feeling or showing disgust or anger
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vigorous
Definition
strong and healthy; full of energy.
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