'Immortal In The Novel Tuck Everlasting'

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Would you like to be everlasting? In the novel “Tuck Everlasting” the Tuck family becomes immortal because of spring water. I am going to tell you about the points of view of being immortal from Tuck and Jesse. I will also be telling about my point of view of being immortal. So keep reading. In this paragraph I am going to be telling you about Tuck’s point of view of being immortal. Tuck does not like being immortal. He does not like being immortal because, he is older and is in an old person's body so he will have that body forever. Also he wants to be on the wheel of life so when he dies he might go to heaven. Another reason is there is nothing for him to do because he has had time to do everything he wants to. That's Tuck’s point of view.

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