Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Tuck Everlasting
Book Review: I love tuck 5 Stars
I'm Devin and I love this book! I like how all of it is in the past and has adventure. I like because this is sort of like when I was stuck with a very big decision.The conflict is when Winnie Foster, main character, finds this spring with the Tucks guarding it. The setting is in Treegap, on the mainland in hot August with 10 year old Winnie Foster talking to the toad in her front yard. She is not happy with her parents watching her almost every minute of sunlight. She says she wants to run away and explore the world with freedom. But sadly she dosen't. but she is not too late it was early morning and she walked down the road in to the wood by her house. in the middle of the wood she spots a boy with a wild look. She jumps behind a bush and watches as he removes a pile of stones that reveal a spring. She walks out and demands a drink, but he would not let her. Then just as the argument started Mae Tuck walks in and says, "the worst has happened at last." Then the Jesse, the boy, and Mae snatch her up and take her away.Will she drink or not? Is she going to be OK?Book Review: I love tuck 5 Stars
I'm Devin and I love this book! I like how all of it is in the past and has adventure. The conflict is when Winnie Foster, main character, finds this spring with the Tucks guarding it. I like because this is sort of like when I was stuck with a very big decision. Will she drink or not?Book Review: I love tuck 5 Stars
I'm Devin and I love this book! I like how all of it is in the past and has adventure. I like because this is sort of like when I was stuck with a very big decision.The conflict is when Winnie Foster, main character, finds this spring with the Tucks guarding it. The setting is in Treegap, on the mainland in hot August with 10 year old Winnie Foster talking to the toad in her front yard. She is not happy with her parents watching her almost every minute of sunlight. She says she wants to run away and explore the world with freedom. But sadly she dosen't. but she is not too late it was early morning and she walked down the road in to the wood by her house. in the middle of the wood she spots a boy with a wild look. She jumps behind a bush and watches as he removes a pile of stones that reveal a spring. She walks out and demands a drink, but he would not let her. Then just as the argument started Mae Tuck walks in and says, "the worst has happened at last." Then the Jesse, the boy, and Mae snatch her up and take her away.Will she drink or not? Is she going to be OK?Book Review: If only it could happen, By Koali'i. L. Grade 6
Summary: 5 Stars
Do you want to live forever? I thought I might want to live forever. After reading this book I had second thoughts. This book was about the Tucks and the Fountain of Youth they discovered. Was this a blessing or a curse? Winnie a ten year old girl had to consider this question. She was kidnapped, witnessed a murder, and assisted in a jailbreak. She must make a decision that could affect her life forever. The story takes place in the 1880s with horses used for transportation and a gallows in the town square. The story is very entertaining and makes you think about life and death, friendship, and making responsible decisions. The best thing about this book is guessing about what will happen next. Everytime you think you know what will happen in the story something else happens and you get surprised. My teacher recommended this book and I do too.Book Review: Images inside words...
Summary: 4 Stars
It took me only five days to finish "Tuck" and I believe Natalie's Babbitt imagination runs wilder than any other author I know of. She is a genius because it has been so long since I felt "the need" to continue and finish a book after a long day of work. She brought me into the story; I became part of it and I was there all the time.
This is an artificial world created by the Tuck's who are trying to survive in the real world. I guess one of the things that attracted me the most was the current fact that we have to "survive" in this world just because there are people on it, judging, talking and looking at us and how painful can it be to be different from the rest without having the chance to change it: "And that would have been a disaster so immense that this weary old earth... would have trembled on its axis like a battle on a pin" (chapter 1, page 8)
Another interesting part is where she is trying to show us that dead is not the end of life but part of it. We should see it that way cause if we try to change it in any way, we may have to suffer the consequences as well as this world.
Overall, this great author also knows how to tell a story in a poetic and entertaining way; I could not understand some of them though.
Finally, what I love from this book is that the reader can picture each scene, each character by only reading two lines, and that is what I find interesting in a book: when we can actually "see" what we are reading. For instance, the line "fixed points they are, and best left undisturbed, for without them, nothing holds together sometimes people find this out too late" takes us to the big wheel as a metaphor of life.