Tuck Everlasting is a gripping novel by Natalie Babbit about a girl called Winnie who stumbles across a spring that grants the gift of immortality guarded by a family called the Tucks who have accidentally drank from it 85 years ago and want to protect the world from the spring.
The characters in this book are quirky, secretive and mostly friendly. The Stranger looks nice calm and friendly but on the inside he is crazy cold blooded and rude. Tuck is gentle, kind and can live forever.
Some of the themes are The wheel, which is a metaphor for the cycle of life.
Rocks which is a metaphor for immortality, are the people who are immortal and have ‘fallen off’ the wheel and about how immortality is a bad thing and if everyone could be immortal “they would run like pigs in slops” said by a character called Tuck, which means that everybody would want to be immortal.
The relationship between Winnie and the Tucks is strong, trustworthy, friendly and understanding whereas the relationship between the Man in the yellow suit and the Fosters is untrustworthy, fragile and unexpected.
Tuck Everlasting is irresistible to read and find out more on with all it’s suspense and exiting twists.