TUCK EVERLASTING
Natalie Babbitt
Literature Circle Group 1
Sydney, Alexis, & Will
Prologue
In the prologue it gives you most of the
main characters. The foreshadowing gives
the prologue a mysterious feel. The
foreshadowing says that Mae Tuck went out
on her horse to meet her two sons. A
stranger appeared at the Foster’s gate, and
Winnie Foster thought about running away.
Chapter 1
This chapter talks about the Foster’s house
and how it had a “touch-me-not” appearance.
When you pass you get the feeling that that the
house is saying, “Move on! We don’t want you
here.” The grass here is cut to the quick and has
a forest of trees. Only one child lives here. Her
name is Winnie Foster. You often see her
banging a stick at the gate that she longs to get
out of.
Chapter 2
Mae wakes up and becomes extremely excited
because her boys, Miles and Jesse are coming home
today. She wakes her husband and tells him. Tuck has
been having the same dream over and over and over
again about them being in heaven happily. Mae
chooses to meet the boys in Treegap. Tucks warns
her to beware but she goes anyway. When putting
her hair up, Mae doesn’t have to look in the mirror.
All the Tucks and their horse have looked the same
for 87 years.
Chapter 3
Winnie Foster was sitting on the grass in her
yard and saw a toad. She began to talk to it. She
told it how much she hated her life. Winnie told
it that she disliked having all the attention on
her, and she hated having to be perfect. The
toad found out her biggest secret – that Winnie
was going to run away. Winnie reached out to
grab the toad for a pet, but the toad hopped
away.
Chapter 4
The very next day, a stranger appeared at the
Foster’s gate while Winnie was catching fireflies. The
stranger began to talk to Winnie asking her strange
questions like, “Have you ever seen anybody around
here before?” Winnie’s grandma came out and saw
the stranger and told him to go away. Before the
man left, they all heard the “Elves music” in the
forest. After that, they all left.
Chapter 5
In this chapter Winnie found the magic
water spout, and wanted to drink it. Jessie
Tuck told her “NO!” Winnie didn’t believe him.
When Mae, Miles and Tuck came they
kidnapped Winnie and took her to their home
on the horse. On the ride they told Winnie the
story of the fountain.
Chapter 6
Winnie began to get confused and started
to sob. Mae showed her where the elf music
came from, it came from Mae’s music box. It
calmed Winnie down a lot.
Chapter 7
After the Tucks finished telling the story,
Winnie suspected they had never told it
before. Everyone drank the magic fountain
water except the cat. When deadly things
happened to them, they realized they were
invincible when none of them got hurt.
Chapter 8
Winnie did not believe in fairy tails. She
was scornful of her grandmother's “elves”,
but what did she think of the Tucks’ story?
Was this the truth? This couldn't possibly be
the truth! Mae interrupted Winnie’s thoughts
when she decided it was time to go. Although
she wanted to go home, these people didn’t
seem very dangerous- they seemed gentle.
Chapter 9
They continued their long trek with Miles
carrying the exhausted Winnie most of the
way. As they passed through the pine forest
they saw the Tucks’ house! When Pa walked
up to them he was so happy because Winnie
was a “real child” and not one that was
secretly older like Miles and Jesse.
Chapter 10
The Tucks welcomed Winnie into their
house. Mae gave Winnie a tour of the house.
Winnie noticed how messy their house was.
Mae explained that they made things to sell.
Winnie wondered why it was so dirty, but
then she remembered that they had forever
to clean it up.
Chapter 11
Winnie enjoyed meals at the Tuck’s house
because they were so laid back, unlike her
own house. Winnie began to remember her
house and she began to become upset. They
tried to calm her down. To explain things
better to Winnie, Pa took Winnie out on his
rowboat.
Chapter 12
Winnie and Pa were now on the rowboat in the
water. They started to talk about the life cycle and
the water cycle. “Winnie, if you drink that magic
water, you’ll be left out of the life cycle just like us
Tucks. “SO PELASE DO NOT DRINK THAT WATER
WINNIE!!”
When they went back to the house, their horse
was gone. Someone had stolen it.
Chapter 13
The Man in The Yellow Suit appeared at the
Foster’s gate once again, but now with a horse.
He knocked on the door. Winnie’s grandmother
opened the door. “I have good news’’ he began.
“I know where they’ve taken your little girl,
Winnie.”
Chapter 14
Mae makes Winnie a bed on the couch,
when Winnie sleeps on it, it’s very
uncomfortable. When everybody else was
sleeping Jessie comes down to see Winnie.
He says to Winnie that if she drinks the water
when she is 17 they can go get married and
run away together. Winnie says she will
thinks about it.
Chapter 15
After The Man In The Yellow Suit appeared,
he made a deal with the Fosters. The deal was:
“If you give me some of your woods, I’ll return
the little girl to you.” The Fosters agreed,
because they missed Winnie A LOT.
Chapter 16
In this chapter The Man In The Yellow Suit
goes to the sheriff’s office to tell him the Tucks
“kidnapped” Winnie. The constable is pretty
much forced to go arrest the Tucks. The Man In
The Yellow Suit and the constable head out to
find and arrest the Tucks.
Chapter 17
Miles and Winnie head out on the small
and ugly boat to catch some fish for
breakfast. There was a tug at Winnie’s line,
but the fish let go and swam away. When
Miles caught a fish, Winnie told him to put it
back because she didn’t want it to die. In this
chapter Winnie realizes that everything dies
for a reason.
Chapter 18
When Winnie and Miles came home with
no fish, Mae decided to have flapjacks for
breakfast again. While in the middle of their
breakfast and discussion, they heard
someone knock at the door. It was a very old
and super ugly man in a yellow suit.
Chapter 19
The Man In The Yellow Suit wants to take
Winnie back to Treegap, and force her to drink
some magic water so she can advertise for him.
When Mae hears about it, she got Tuck’s double
barrel shot gun and hits the Man In The Yellow
Suit on the back of his head. The constable
comes around the corner just in time to see all
the action. If The Man In The Yellow Suit dies,
Mae will go to the gallows he says.
Chapter 20
When the constable asked if Winnie was
kidnapped, she told him, “ They didn’t kidnap
me! I chose to come – their my friends.” The
constable barely believed what Winnie said.
He lifted her on to his fat horse to take her
home. Mae gets on her fat horse because she
is headed to jail.
Chapter 21
Winnie sits on her small, comforting
rocking chair by her little window. While
rocking back and forth to the beat of their
Grandfather clock, the constable comes into
the house to see the Fosters. “The Man In The
Yellow Suit, that you sold your land to is
dead.” The constable told them. When Winnie
heard that she ran back into her room. Mae
must not go to the gallows!
Chapter 22
It was one of the hottest days yet. Winnie
went outside for a little bit and saw the toad
(her toad). He looked extremely dry. Winnie
saw Jessie across her gate and started talking
to him. He handed her a magic bottle of
spring water and said “Remember to drink it
when your 17, then come and find me.”
Chapter 23
Winnie sat in bed waiting for 12:00 to
come. She had nothing to do and she couldn’t
stop thinking about her making a difference
in the world. Out of boredom, she fell asleep
around 11:00. When she awoke, it was 5
minutes until midnight. Winnie had not
missed her chance.
Chapter 24
Winnie snuck outside to meet Jesse.
Jesse and Winnie walked out to the jailhouse
to meet Miles and Tuck where waiting. Miles
almost finished opening the window so Mae
could climb out. When the window was open
they all helped Mae get out. Winnie stood up
on the cot and looked out the window - the
Tucks were gone.
Chapter 25
Winnie sits in her lawn recalling her
adventure! While sitting there Winnie sees her
little toad, a dog is trying to kill it. Winnie
snatched up her toad and without thinking,
she ran up to her room, grabbed the bottle of
magic water, and ran downstairs and poured
it on the toad. Now it was safe forever.
Epilogue
The Tucks came back to Treegap and
found out that Treegap had been burned
down. They went to the cemetery and they
saw a gravestone that had Winnie’s name on
it. They became very sad. They saw a small
toad on the road and picked it up and put it in
the grass, then said, “That little guy must
think he’ll live forever.”
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