Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt This post is part of the series: English Literature Lesson Plans Tuck Everlasting Unit For more in-depth information about any of these characters, why not get the book and research for yourself? Alternatively, this book review has additional facts about the story and characters. He gives her a tiny bottle of water to save for that day.Īfter studying this list of characters in Tuck Everlasting, you have a fair idea of who the players are and how their relationships intertwine. He wants Winnie to drink the spring water at age seventeen so they can marry.He wanders aimlessly finding work wherever he can. Jesse is a jack of all trades, master of none.Although he is shabbily dressed, Winnie thinks he is handsome.Seventeen-years old forever, Jesse is thin and sunburned with thick curly brown hair.He is a skilled carpenter and blacksmith, and these talents enable him to help Mae escape from jail.He is taller than Jesse with a thin face, pale skin, and straight neatly trimmed hair.He was married and had two children his wife left him because he never aged.Miles is the oldest son just 22 years old when his life clock stopped.He says, “People go to do something useful if they’re going to take up space on the world.” Miles is compelled to do something important with his eternal life. He views immortality as more of a curse than a gift.The death of the man in the yellow suit fascinated him he may have been jealous of the man’s death.His suicide attempt failed because he is immortal.He is sad looking with creased cheeks and face he only smiles when asleep.Angus Tuck is her husband, and Jessie and Miles are her sons.She kills the man in the yellow suit with a shot gun.She is big and comfortable-looking with a round face and calm brown eyes.Her music box is her constant companion.Mae seems like the type of person described as comfortable as an old shoe. The author compares him to a marionette.He spies on the Tucks and discovers their secret.He is described as tall and narrow with a thin gray beard he wears a yellow suit and black hat.He says: “I’ve got what you want, and you’ve got what I want.” He is a horse thief and extortionist he schemes to make money from the sale of the “fountain of youth” spring water.Use this information to answer homework or test questions about Tuck Everlasting. The author never gives the man in the yellow suit a name, but she paints a vivid word picture of his appearance and character. Given the chance for immortality, she chooses to bestows the gift upon her toad.Although usually an obedient child, she becomes an accomplice in a jailbreak.The other children do not play with her until after her adventure “…where before she had been too neat, too prissy almost, somehow, too clean to be a real friend.”.She lives in the Touch-Me-Not cottage with her parents and grandmother. Here are some tidbits about Winnie Foster. Use this information to help study for tests and quizzes, or as research for writing projects.
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