Comparison Of Jesse And Angus Tuck's Dream

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Immortality means never ending and everlasting, but is this a good thing? Do we want to live forever, never die, never be physically hurt again? The Tuck family never thought about this, at least not until they drank from the spring. A bubbling spring, in the deep wood of Treegap. Jesse and Angus Tuck are the the ones who truly thought this through. Are they happy?
Angus Tuck was having a wonderful dream. He explained that this dream was when he and his family were all in Heaven, and had never heard of Treegap. When the rowboat gets stuck, Angus decides to tell Winnie about life being a wheel. He gets to the point of telling Winnie that on that wheel, everything flows smoothly, like it’s supposed to. But that when his family drank

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