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…
This summary will be about chapters five through eight on “The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood”, by Howard Pyle. The story of Robin Hood is about a famous archer named Robert of Loxley (Robin Hood), who had a confrontation with a drunken citizen that challenged him. After they had a shooting match, the drunken citizen decided to shoot an arrow at Robin Hood, however Robin Hood retaliates by shooting him in the heart. After this, Robin Hood decides to hide in the forest, where more than a…
1. (40 pts). What problems does Robin Hood have? What issues need to be addressed? The first issue to be addressed is the fact that he has lost sight of his original intention of his Merrymen. Instead, it’s gotten more and more out of hand. He thought he needed more men, but as he brought in more and more min, they had excessive necessities that the Merrymen could not fill. He believed that the true strength was in number, but the bigger the numbers, the more complicated his revolt was. He needs…
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…
Background of experiences: What is your current position? I currently hold the positions of Nationally Board Certified Mathematics Teacher at a high school, Math and Business Department Chair, IB CAS Coordinator and Class Sponsor. How long have you had this position? I have been a math teacher for 23 years, Math Department Chair for the last five years (Business department was added to my department this past year). This is my third year as the IB CAS Coordinator. I have been a class…
In the stories, “Oedipus Rex” and “The Joy Luck Club”, the characters of the stories are placed in a society where they are guided by rules, with the people and events in these stories the characters are shaped to go against the standard and rule to shift their identity, but the characters change themselves, but the way they change can be beneficial but can also ruin everything. There are people in these large event, who we interact with and with these interaction we learn and take what we…