Tuck Everlasting Essay

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Life is both fortunate and unlucky. The main conflict in the book, Tuck Everlasting, is an internal conflict in Winnie Foster’s mind. Winnie Foster thinks that living forever is the only thing she wants to do. That is, until the end of the book. Winnie Foster stumbles along a magical trail. spring in a forest, a spring that, if drunk, makes a person live forever. Only a select few people. know of this spring, and when Winnie Foster stumbles upon it, those people must keep it a. secret. The snare of the snare. But a person can only keep eternal life a secret for so long before it’s discovered. One of the main characters named Mae Tuck is an older woman who is part of the family that originally drank the magical immortal spring water. Mae …show more content…

Just go out, like the flame of a candle, and no use protesting. It was a certainty, he said. She would try very hard not to think of it, but sometimes, as now, it would be forced upon her. She raged against it, helpless and insulted, and blurted out at last, ‘I don’t want to die.’ ” (Babbit, 1975, pg. 63) This quote illustrates that Winnie Foster doesn’t like the thought of death, unlike Angus Tuck, who entertains the thought of death. In this same scene, Angus Tuck responds to Winnie Foster, sharing his thoughts on her not wanting to die. Angus Tuck, unlike Winnie Foster, actually wants to die because he has been immortal for hundreds of years and knows that life can be a blessing and a curse. Angus Tuck can be quoted as saying “No, not now”. Your time’s not now. But dying’s part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can’t pick out the pieces you like …show more content…

Being part of the whole thing, that’s the blessing. But it’s passing us by, us Tucks. Living’s heavy work, but off to one side, the way we are, it’s useless, too. It don’t make sense, if I knew how to climb back on the wheel, I’d do it in a minute. You can’t live without dying. So you can’t call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.” (Babbit, 1975, pg. 63-64) This quote illustrates that living forever wouldn’t actually be living, it would be existing. It would no longer be life, nor would it be death, it would simply be somewhere in between. In a later scene, a character known only as ‘The man in the yellow suit’ talks to the Tucks, sharing his plan for selling the magical spring water to people. Essentially selling immortality. The Tucks want to stop him, knowing that it will be dangerous and will ruin lives. Ruin lives by giving life. The man can be quoted as saying “But I’m not going to sell it to just anybody”. Only certain people, people who deserve it. And it will be very, very expensive. But who wouldn’t give a fortune to live forever?” This quote illustrates that many people would do anything to live forever. Even if living forever, wouldn’t be living. In

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