Tuck Everlasting Analysis

Tuck Everlasting, a book that will leave an impression, is written by Natalie Babbitt, a person who shows the reader her determination to convey a beautiful fantasy while using figurative language to hold the readers everlasting attention. In my opinion, Tuck Everlasting is a lovely piece of art in the finest sense. The use of figurative language did in fact hold my attention, and did in fact leave a long-lasting impression on me. In the third or fourth grade, I had read Tuck Everlasting as a reading assignment in school. Let’s just say I wasn’t exactly the one to be caught with a book in my hands, but Tuck Everlasting is one of the books that made me enjoy reading much, much more than sitting around and watching television. I had remembered
Mae Tuck is a friendly woman with a country accent, such as all if the Tucks. Mae has brown hair that had been slowly turning to grey before she had drank the water in the spring, and then became immortal. Mae Tuck is plump and a friendly person, and isn’t a person to keep dreaming (unlike Tuck). She knows what predicament she is in and doesn’t harp on it. Mae is indecisive about whether or not the Tucks everlasting-bodies were a blessing…or a curse. You can tell this from when she had told Winnie “We’re plain as salt, us Tucks. We don’t deserve no blessing… if this is even a blessing.” Mae seems like a person who likes to keep things at peace, but when it comes to her family, as when Winnie was being taken away (although not a family member, yet stilled loved as one), she knocked the man in the yellow suit down to the ground with Tuck’s gun, later killing him. This sent her to the gallows, however with her faithful family and Winnie she was able to escape before she could get their; she escaped at night, they couldn’t let the secret out. Mae Tuck is one of the best characters in the book.

The title of Tuck Everlasting was quite obviously well-chosen once the reader gets to the Tucks overwhelming secrets. The Tucks are simply… everlasting. The title pertains to the characters because that’s what they are but, then again, Tucks had also said they’d be on the earth until the end of the world. If you think about it, that is an end, they are not everlasting. However, everyone is everlasting, if you look at it as soul, not body. The Tucks are tired of the heavy bodies weighing them down, tying them to this earth. Dying is just a step that helps you to your eternal