Friar Tuck

hand and hand with character development throughout the storyline. The development and growing of characters is present and similar in all of the four novels; Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web, Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting and Katherine Paterson’s Bridge to Terabithia. In The Secret Garden, Burnett portrays the two main characters, Mary Lennox and Colin Craven as “mirror images.” The entire…

Could you ever imagine living forever? Would you like it? Mae Tuck is in the story Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. There is something special able out her, it is that she never dies. Her husband and boys had drank from the spring not knowing what it was. She is one of my favorite characters because she has many good things about her. Throughout the story, Mae Tuck is strong hearted, brave, and accepting. She helps Winnie better understand her life and the world around her. In the story I…

In the novel Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit, the protagonist Winnie Foster is given a choice of drinking water from a spring that will make her immortal. Winnie struggles with this decision because one of the key characters Angus Tuck tells her that it’s useless and that he wishes he could grow again. Yet, Angus’s son Jesse explains to Winnie the benefits of eternal life when he states that “you can have a good time that would never be stopped. If I had the same choice as Winnie Foster, I…

Everblaze is the third installment in the Keepers of the Lost Cities series which follows the life of Sophie Elizabeth Foster. She grew up in San Diego, up until she was 12, meeting a boy named Fitz, telling her that she is the key to fixing all the problems in the Elvin world. She finds out that she is too and elf and this power to read mind that she’s had since she was five is normal. Through her journeys of being kidnapped, angering the Council, enrolling in a new school, Firefox Academy,…

In the novel, “Tuck Everlasting”, drinking the water from the spring is a terrible idea because the people who drink the water can not grow old anymore, they have to hide themselves because if the other people find out the secret of the water, bad things happens to the people who drink the water. The first reason why people should not drink the special water is because they can not grow old anymore. The special water is magical, if people drink it they stop growing. “Mae tuck and her…

The last major theme in “Tuck Everlasting” is the breaking of rules, laws and risky behaviour. Miles, along with the rest of his Tuck family and Winnie Foster, broke quite a few rules and laws and this along with their behaviour, got them into troubles that they had to get themselves out of. The first law that the family break is the kidnapping of Winnie Foster once she saw the spring. The kidnapping was witnessed by the man in the yellow suit: “The road, where it angled across the meadow, was…

At the beginning of the novel Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt Winnie’s tone is annoyment. She is tired of being told what to do. Winnie wants to leave and go to the other side of the fence. Readers can first notice this when Winnie states ¨I don't think I can stand this anymore.¨ When someone feels that way it is as if they are being kept somewhere and want to get out. Winnie feels this way about the fence around her yard that she is not allowed to leave. Later on in the text, Winnie's…

into the woods owned by the Fosters and meets a boy named Jesse Tuck, drinking from a spring. The girl also wants to refresh herself with the water but Jesse refuses so he takes her away with the Tuck family, who were currently having a family reunion. It upsets Winnie that she was kidnapped so Mae Tuck, the mother of the family explains a secret to her of their strange past. After listening to the story, Winnie learns that the Tuck family is immortal because they drank…

SilvaGiulia SilvaMr. HydeEnglish II Pre-AP, Period 110/7/15The Best of MeNicholas SparksSETTING The setting of this book is the town Oriental, North Caroline 1984. In this setting Dawsonand Amanda met each other and fell in love. This town has a big divide in terms of social classes,from families like Amanda’s to families like Dawson’s. In this town the social classes tend to mingle only with those of the same class, with the exception of Amanda and Dawson of course. This is a very small town…

In the book Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, Winnie is an 11 year old girl who meets a family named the Tucks. The Tucks are a family that can live forever because they drank eternal water. The Fosters are Winnie's family and are very over protective over Winnie. The Tucks are a family that has an old horse named Old Dan. The Tucks and the Fosters were very strange but eventually died. Well, except for the Tucks. Death is a part of your life and you shouldn’t refuse it. The Tucks are…