Tuck Everlasting ABC Book

Tuck Everlasting

by: Natalie Babbit

ABC book by: Madison R.

A big setting in the story. This is where the spring that holds eternal life is. Winnie's grandmother believe that the music coming from the wood is sfrom elves.

Wood

The Man in the Yellow suit

Y

The Man in the Yellow Suit is the character that overhears the Tucks story about them drinking from the spring. He would like to own the wood and sell the water. He wanted to use Winnie to demonstrate the water's power.

W

Riches

R

The man in the yellow suit wanted to sell the water from the spring to make money. He wanted Winnie to demonstrate for him.

ZZZ! Winnie sleeping

Queer

Z

Q

When a man in a yellow suit goes to Winnie Fosters house. You have a feeling that there is somethimg strange about him.

This represents Winnies first night at the Tucks. She had to sleep on the lumpy sofa but couldn't fall asleep.

U

Unlawful Acts

This is what the Tucks did when they kidnapped Winnie and killed the man in the yellow suit. This is what sent Maeto the gallows.

V

Vowes

Execution

X

The event in the story where Mae is sentenced to execution in the gallows. So the Tucks and Winnie set up an escape plan where Winnie switches place with Mae so the Tucks can have achance to get away safely.

M

Cow Path (foreshadowing)

P

This is th event in the story where Winnie promises not to tell the Tucks secret of them having eternal life. The Man in the Yellow Suit overhears this in the Wood.

Mae Tuck

The mother of Miles and Jesse and wife to Angus Tuck. She pretends to be ok with the idea of eternal life but deep down she doesn't like it.

The cow path is an example of foreshadowing. When the cows go past the wood without entering it you get the feeling that there is something dangerous about them.

K

Kidnapping

Winnie got kidnapped after she heard the story about the Tucks and the spring. This is a minor event in the story.

I

Irresponsibility

Figurative language

This is for Jesse Tuck. Jesse is pretty irresponsible and carefree but he is in love with Winnie and wants her to drink from the spring.

L

Son

S

Eternal Life

Figurative language is used a lot in this story. For example, when the author compares life to a wheel she is using figurative language.

E

A

Angus Tuck

The father of Miles and Jesse and Husband to Mae Tuck. He thinks that the fact that he drank from the spring is a curse

The thing granted to the Tucks after they drank from the spring. They wished that they didn't have eternal life.

Natalie Babbit

The author of the story Tuck Everlasting. She uses figurative language and foreshadowing alot in the story.

B

Miles is the son of Mae and Angus Tuck and brother to Jesse Tuck. He also drank from the spring and has eternal life. He was married and had two kids.

D

Drinking from the spring

Old horse

The jailhouse is a major setting in the story. It's where Mae Tuck gets taken after she kills the man in the yellow suit.

O

Drinking from the spring. A very important event of the story. This gave the Tucks immortality, that the Tucks see as a curse.

Cat

C

Jailhouse

J

Winnie Foster

Fate

The cat was the only Tuck family member who didn't drink from the spring.

F

The old horse served as a distraction while Winnie and Angus were out in the rowboat. The next morning, Angus Tuck goes out to look for his horse but comes up short. The Man in the Yellow Suit stole the horse.

Winnie Foster is a little prim and proper girl at the beginning of the story. At the end after her experience with the Tucks, she becomes more independent.

Fate: My fate was that I would have to die. I was not happy about this at first. After the story I felt ok with the decision because I did not want to have to live in isolation.

Home of the Tucks

H

Gun

G

The Gun is another important event in the story. When Mae hits the The Man in the Yellow Suit in the head with a gun killing him so The man cannot sell the spring water.

Never-ending wheel

N

The Tucks home is a very important setting in the story. The Tucks home is where Winnie is taken to when she is kidnappped. This is where she stays for the bulk of the story.

The never-ending wheel is an example of figurative language. It represents life and how if you have eternal life, you fall off the wheel and have to live in isolation.

T

Theme

The theme of Tuck Everlasting is that life is precious. If you have eternal life you take it for granted. You also have to llive in isoation and watch life go by.