Recently, the Grade 6 class finished reading Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. The story is about a girl named Winnie Foster who runs away and meets the Tuck family. They are immortal due to a spring in a forest that belongs to Winnie’s family. They teach her how life is a cycle and about death. The book ends with Winnie pouring the spring water on the toad that “convinced” her to run away so that it would be safe forever. In the epilogue we also find out that Winnie died and decided not to drink from the spring and be immortal like the Tucks. I think the ending of the book is sad, but I like it and the whole book in general is a very good book. The message in this book is that life is a cycle and I think it is very important because sometimes people want to be immortal, but they don’t think about not completing the cycle and being lonely and kind of being stuck. This message relates to my life because since I am a Christian I believe that when I die I will go to heaven. So it relates because if I know that I will never die, there’s nothing to look forward to. …show more content…
Moving, growing, changing, never the same two minutes together.” I find this quote interesting because I like how it talks about life always being different. This quote is basically saying that life never stands still, never freezes. It means that life is always moving along with its and busy. I see a strong connection between this quote and my life. In this school, things are always changing because when you have friends and people coming in from all over the world, I’ve noticed that people are always leaving and the school is always changing. Things around us are also always changing, for example my mom is starting a business so pretty soon I will be travelling a lot more and seeing my mom a lot
As Wendy Martin says “the poem leaves the reader with painful impression of a woman in her mid-fifties, who having lost her domestic comforts is left to struggle with despair. Although her loss is mitigated by the promise of the greater rewards of heaven, the experience is deeply tragic.” (75)
The theme of this book is, to live is to take risks. To love is to take risks. To live is to love. This is clear because the symbols the author uses.
Is living forever the greatest gift of the ultimate curse? This is the question that both the ALA notable book, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, and the movie based on the book raise. Both explore the exciting possibility of never facing death, the harsh reality of a never ending life and the greed that it can bring. A look at the similarities and differences will reveal that the theme, along with the general story line, was one of the few things that remain the same in the translation from book to movie.
Time moves forward, and only forward. It’s a circle – we are born, raised, we live, then we die. But have you ever imagined what would happen if you were endowed with immortality? What if you could not die no matter how many decades had passed, while the world around you keeps changing and everyone else keeps aging? Would it be wonderful to live forever like that? Then you should take a look at Tuck Everlasting, a novel written by Natalie Babbitt in 1975 which focuses on the negative side of immortality.
I find the theme in this book to be something that an anyday person or child would experience in a day or much longer piece of time. Any person can experience times of confusion and emotional instability, but if that person sticks it out; they will find an answer to their problems or they will answer answer it for themselves. This pertains to a lifelong conflict, but it does not just pertain to that. It relates to a situation in a day, week, or even, an
From supporting evidence and three quotes, shows my thinking that the theme of the book is that not everybody is like you think they
In the book I can connect to some of the things in it. In life people have happy things happen and negative things happen. “Life throws too much crap at us as it is, so why hold onto something
The book has a moody tone, where the character tries to feel happy, but cannot be happy because of the lack of attention from citizens but tries to find happiness instead by friends he makes along his journey of poverty. “So," he said, "we ourselves will be the candle flames." He put his hands on his chest. "Feel your hearts, how warm they are.” This quote had a moving touch of me, the power of friendship has a taste of happiness inside, but this quote was so strong that this quote warmed up my own rough heart. It tries to give the characters some happiness so that they can push themselves to survive. I find this quote very important in the story, because this quote builds up to the character realizing what
Life is what you make it as we go through life’s journey. We all have different experiences that are unique to us individually. “Life is not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.” - Virginia Satir. There are typical aspects of our journey that are similar, but different; we share commonalities along the way with others. In life, we will face challenges that bring about change, which is what happens to us along the way when we are younger, and it makes us who we are when we are older. Change is the opposite
I found this book to be an eye opener to many things that I never really paid attitude to. We all want to believe that where we come from and who we are does not affect what we will be come. Yes all have heard it before you can be what you want to be as long as you work hard for it. But really many things that people would like to be are out of reached for the simple fact that you are not in the right class of people. Even thought
The “meaning of life” also shows up a lot in both of these books. In The Alchemist the meaning of life is stated as finding your personal legend and following your dreams. “…whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth." (pg. 22) Melchizedek states this saying, follow what the universe is telling you to do. That is what you were put on the earth to do. We see The Stranger’s view in the very last lines of the novel… “As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.” (pg. 122-123) Meursault finally accepts that death is inevitable and he can’t avoid it. He also comes to a conclusion that life in general lacks meaning and order no matter who you are. At a ripe age of 18 and still much to learn, I seem to think life isn’t based on finding your personal legend. Life is life, and I play it by year and go with the flow. I wasn’t put on this earth for
The book seems to be the wisdom of experience coming from someone looking back and reflecting on their life and wishing to warn the next generation. To advise the reader or listener that whatever their earthly pursuit outside of God will end in emptiness, even disaster, but then calls the individual back to hope if the focus is on living for Him.
Life is a complicated twist of suffering, laughing, and learning all merging to tell a great story - or great many stories. Based on this view, "it is not the end goal or outcome of life that gives life meaning but rather the quality of the story, the quality with which one lives out and develops his or her role."
The book tells the story of the death of much of the author's family. It shows how he overcame much adversity and survived his training.