Compare And Contrast Tuck Everlasting

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Tuck Everlasting is both a book and a movie. With many similarities and differences. The book goes into more detail of the live of the Tucks, then the movie would ever be able to. Most importantly there are major divergences with the most intricate parts of the story.
Tuck Everlasting is a very interesting book, it is about a 10 year old girl named Winnie Foster who is thinking of running away from her home in Treegap which is surrounded by forestry. Then on one of her outings into the woods she sees a teenage boy drinking from a spring he is about 17. She approaches him and learns his name is Jesse Tuck. Winnie then tries to drink from the spring but Jesse doesn't let her despite her insisting. Soon after Winnie is taken away by Jesses mother Mae and brother Miles to …show more content…

Within a short amount of time Winnie grows fond of Jesse and his father Angus Tuck, who teach her of the life cycle they only wish they could return to and why the spring must be kept a secret from everyone including the man in the yellow suit. But, while Winifred learns of this the man in the yellow suit is near overhearing the entire conversation, including that Winnie is a Foster. So the man in the yellow suit steals a horse and rides to the Foster homestead informing the family of her location. The fosters then dispatch the local constable. Who does not find her but puts out a bounty. This did not create the effect that was wanted by the man in the yellow suit, so he goes back to the Tucks and tells them that he is going to collect spring water and sell it in the town. But the Tucks refuse causing ruckus and overall tension. This leads to the Tucks needing to protect themselves and while trying to do this Mae gets arrested for the death of the man in the yellow suit and is going to be lynched. So the rest of the family must break her out or her immortality will be found out by the world. So the Tuck boys broke her out of her cell and escaped, leaving them no choice

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