Everlasting Love

“And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love.” This biblical verse from the book of Corinthians implies that love is an everlasting essence to humanity and without it, life would have no meaning. Love is a natural human behavior that has been around since the beginning of the species. It is the warm, bubbly feeling of butterflies in the stomach, the sweaty hands, the flushed cheeks, and the racing heartbeat. Love is a universal symbol that puts one in an emotional state, but there are also chemical causes behind the romance. According to Webster’s dictionary, the definition of love is an intense feeling of deep affection. Other definitions, such as the one by Dalton Runberg, lean more towards the sensual side, defining love as attraction that includes sexual desire. Poets, philosophers, scientists, and psychologists all have their own meaning of true love. Each individual also has his/her own…

In the world there is a special place called the woods and it has magical water produced there. When people drink this water, they do not grow up anymore. Also, they can not get hurt, and they live forever which makes them immortal. In the novel, “Tuck Everlasting”, drinking the water from the spring is a terrible idea because the people who drink the water can not grow old anymore, they have to hide themselves because if the other people find out the secret of the water, bad things happens…

Have you ever heard of a fountain of youth? Well in Tuck Everlasting there is a fountain of youth and the family of four and they are the only ones that know about the fountain of youth. Unit one day a girl named Winnie Foster decided to run away. When she went into the woods she saw a boy named Jesse Tuck. He was drinking the water and then she locked eyes with him and then they started to talk. When winnie asked to have some Jesse had to say no because it was the fountain of youth and if you…

In the book Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, Winnie is an 11 year old girl who meets a family named the Tucks. The Tucks are a family that can live forever because they drank eternal water. The Fosters are Winnie's family and are very over protective over Winnie. The Tucks are a family that has an old horse named Old Dan. The Tucks and the Fosters were very strange but eventually died. Well, except for the Tucks. Death is a part of your life and you shouldn’t refuse it. The Tucks are…

At the beginning of the novel Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt Winnie’s tone is annoyment. She is tired of being told what to do. Winnie wants to leave and go to the other side of the fence. Readers can first notice this when Winnie states ¨I don't think I can stand this anymore.¨ When someone feels that way it is as if they are being kept somewhere and want to get out. Winnie feels this way about the fence around her yard that she is not allowed to leave. Later on in the text, Winnie's…

Wouldn’t you like to never age, never get injured, and live forever? I wouldn’t. The Tucks from Tuck Everlasting had this dilemma when they found out that the spring had given them immortality. They had to chose to keep it secret or to let others know about it. I think the Tucks made the right decision to keep it secret because evolution will turn them into freaks, they are forced away from society, and life becomes pointless to them. If you drank the water, evolution is going to turn you…

Winnie Foster is a ten year old girl, living in the village of Treegap. It is the summer of 1880 and she is continuing to live her strict and boring life. One day, Winnie decides to run away because she was tired of being watched by her mother and grandmother. She wanders off into the woods owned by the Fosters and meets a boy named Jesse Tuck, drinking from a spring. The girl also wants to refresh herself with the water but Jesse refuses so he takes her away with the Tuck family, who were…

stipulated and she lives again, completely restarting life and she has no idea. Somehow, Damon always finds where Ever is. The saying, “The eyes are the window to the soul” is very accurate in this case. The body does not look the same, but the eyes do. Her exuberant soul is what Damon looks for in her eyes, and he finds her every time. But Ever is completely unaware, so when Ever dies Damon can’t do anything about it. When he gave her these abilities she was also given eternal life, meaning she…

The last major theme in “Tuck Everlasting” is the breaking of rules, laws and risky behaviour. Miles, along with the rest of his Tuck family and Winnie Foster, broke quite a few rules and laws and this along with their behaviour, got them into troubles that they had to get themselves out of. The first law that the family break is the kidnapping of Winnie Foster once she saw the spring. The kidnapping was witnessed by the man in the yellow suit: “The road, where it angled across the meadow, was…

Characters in novels are very much like real people. They experience real-life situations that help them grow and develop which become visible to readers through various literature characteristics. Themes, motifs and symbolism all show readers how certain characters find their “stronger sense of self”, playing hand and hand with character development throughout the storyline. The development and growing of characters is present and similar in all of the four novels; Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The…