9/18/2023 0 Comments Tuck everlasting characters traits![]() ![]() "You mean, if he dies," Winnie had said, flatly, and they had sat back, shocked. And once she's back with her family, it's pretty obvious that something has changed: (Don't try this at home.) What's more, she has to keep everything she knows a total secret. While we're on the growing-up-fast topic, nothing will make you mature as quickly as seeing a guy bashed in the head with the base of a shotgun. The attention at home, on the other hand, is almost imprisoning. Sure, she's still the object of everybody's focus, but this kind of attention is flattering and makes her feel grown-up. It's almost a reversal of what she's used to at home. If the Tucks are the "children" telling the story, excitedly looking for attention, Winnie is the "mother" whose attention is demanded. She soon suspected they had never told it before, except to each other-that she was their first real audience for they gathered around her like children at their mother's knee, each trying to claim her attention, and sometimes they all talked at once, and interrupted each other, in their eagerness. It was the strangest story Winnie had ever heard. And when the Tucks are telling her their story, the narrator uses language to show us that Winnie is kind of the leader of the pack: We find her comforting them when they're down and sticking up for them when they're in trouble. On top of that, Winnie even plays the role of adult among the Tucks. It really makes you feel grown-up, like you have your own desires-something that belongs just to you. We don't know about you, but Shmoop's first crush was a life-changing ordeal. She goes from being a ten-year-old kid with no independence to, well, the belle of the ball who needs to grow up quick.įirst, she gets her first crush. When Winnie gets kind-of-kidnapped by the Tucks, she's in for quite a change. It's no surprise that one of her greatest ambitions early on is "to be by for a change." Growing Up Is Hard to Do Heck, even reaching through the fence to grab a toad feels rebellious. That means that even leaving her own yard turns into a rebellion. Because Winnie feels so trapped, she has a major desire to break free. ![]() We're all for parental supervision, but we also know how much it stinks to never have any alone time. Something that would make some kind of difference in the world." (3.6) I want to be by myself for a change I'm not exactly sure what I'd do, you know, but something interesting-something that's all mine. I'm tired of being looked at all the time. If I had a sister or a brother, there'd be someone else for them to watch. She's ten years old, and she's totally sick of her helicopter family who hovers over her every move: When we first meet her, Winnie is not a happy camper. ![]() She definitely gets a gold star for helpfulness on that one, but she's also a super-developed character in her own right. Without Winnie, we would never get that peek into the immortal world of the Tuck family. Then why is the main character Winnie Foster? We're reading a book called Tuck Everlasting, right? And there's an entire family that we call the Tucks? Hmmm. ![]()
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