The Town In The Town Of Treegap

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Treegap is the village where Tuck Everlasting takes place. It has a wood, a road, a cottage, a jailhouse and gallows. The road that goes through Treegap is long and windy. The author uses personification to describe how it twists and turns. The road wasn’t really much of a road, it is more like a rock path, but in the epilogue of the book it gets covered in tarmac. The cottage has a touch-me-not appearance that makes it look very proud of itself. It was a square house with perfectly cut grass and a strong iron fence. This house belonged to the Fosters, some of the main characters in the story. The jailhouse and the gallows were new in the town of Treegap. The gallows were shaped like an upside down L and not far from the jailhouse.

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