Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt Online Book Summary

TUCK EVERLASTING NOTES

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

Summary

Leaving the house is so easy that Winnie is shocked. No one stirs as she goes to the gate and she feels even guiltier that she has taken advantage of their trust. However, she knows there is no other way. Leaving her house is like leaving something real and moving into a dream. Jesse is there waiting and as they go by the jail, there is the gallows set up in the yard like a great L. As she meets up with the Tucks, she is reminded of a poem: Stone walls do not a prison make,/Nor iron bars a cage. They seem to be her mantra to give her courage. Miles begins to pry out the nails, one at a time, until they are all free. Now......

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The quote that Winnie remembers repeatedly is by Richard Lovelace and was written to his love while he was in prison. It gives ......

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

Summary

As this chapter opens, August is long over and the wheel has begun its downward spiral, bringing with it the changeless sweep of change. Mae and her family had not been found and Winnie is profoundly grateful. She will never forget that night and how in the end the gallows had been blown over by the wind. She also will never forget the Constable’s face when he came in with Mae’s breakfast that morning and discovered Winnie. He called her an accomplice and swore he would take her into custody. Her parents had asked over and over why she had done it, and it took her tearful admission against her.......

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It is ironic that the storm blows over the gallows, because the storm brings change to the hot days of August, and the gallows are blown away, because they would have brought a terrible change to the world. Winnie’s decision to make the Toad immortal is a touching one, indicating that.......

EPILOGUE

Summary

The Tucks have returned to Treegap, but it is obviously many years after the events of Winnie’s August days. There are many changes in the village including cross streets and lines down the middle of them. The wood is completely gone, not a tree left and so is Winnie’s cottage. There is a gas station where the attendants chuckle at the Tucks in their horse-drawn wagon. There are many more businesses and a larger jailhouse. A black and white.......

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The Epilogue does its job well by tying up all the loose ends. So much change has come to Treegap in the years between 1880 and 1950 that the Tucks almost don’t recognize it. The Ferris wheel has continued to roll on for everyone but the Tucks. The wood is gone; bulldozed over and so is the spring, which is a relief to the Tucks. They will never have to worry again that anyone will drink from it.

Winnie is also gone, having made the decision, perhaps because of all that Angus had told her in the rowboat, to not drink from.......

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