Why Is Tuck Everlasting Wrong

Wouldn’t you like to never age, never get injured, and live forever? I wouldn’t. The Tucks from Tuck Everlasting had this dilemma when they found out that the spring had given them immortality. They had to chose to keep it secret or to let others know about it. I think the Tucks made the right decision to keep it secret because evolution will turn them into freaks, they are forced away from society, and life becomes pointless to them. If you drank the water, evolution is going to turn you into a freak. On page 49 in Tuck Everlasting, Angus said, “And everywhere around us thing is moving and growing and changing.” One of these changes is evolution. Over 3 to 4 million years, humans evolved from australopithecus afarensis to homo sapiens sapiens. A few million years from now, who knows what humans would be like? We only know they’d be very different and may not even be the same species. The Tucks would be considered living early hominids. …show more content…
If they stay in a society for too long, people will notice that they aren’t aging. On page 9 Angus said “Better not do that,” after Mae said she was going to ride to Treegap. He said that because if anyone remembered her, they’d notice she has not aged for ten years. On page 42, Mae said, “Always moving around without any friends or anything.” If they made friends, the friends would eventually notice they don’t age, and they’d have to leave before that. On page 30, Miles said “My wife, she finally made up her mind I’d sold my soul to the Devil. She left me.” This happened because his wife noticed he wasn’t