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Tuck Everlasting Essay

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Tuck Everlasting is a musical based upon an American children’s book called Tuck Everlasting. Tuck Everlasting was performed at the Fox Playhouse in downtown North Platte, Nebraska. The show opens in the forest where most of the character’s name what they want most in the world. Winnie wants to go to the fair; Mae, wants to see her son again; Jesse wants to see the familiar sights in the forest; Miles, wants to be unstuck in time; and the man in the yellow suit wants to learn the secret of the forests and become immortal. Winnie goes into her house where she spends most of her time with her loving mother and grandmother since her father has passed away. Winnie is a good girl, but wishes her life was bigger than their living room. Her …show more content…

They ended up finding her clothes to wear in the attic and that is also where she stayed that night. The Tuck family went back and forth whether to keep her over night, but they could not trust she was going to keep the secret safe. Winnie is full of adventures which she thought staying in the attic was its own kind of adventure, but then decides to sneak out with Jesse to join the parade that her mother would not let her go too. As the play goes on Winnie and Jesse get really close as friends. Jesse took her to the parade and played games and decided they were going to become friends and travel the world together. Jesse and Winnie acted as if they were “partners in crime”. They leave the fair and go explore and ended up sitting on top of the Treegap water tower. This is where they have a conversation and Jesse convinces Winnie to wait and drink the water when she turns seventeen. The reason Jesse wanted her to wait was so they could get married and they would both be the same age for the rest of their lives. The man in the Yellow Suit was walking in the forest and overheard Jesses speech and decides he is going to follow the Tucks wherever they went to find out the secret and where they were getting this water from. Act two started off with the man in the Yellow Suit celebrating his win with those in the traveling fair. He is very excited at what he overheard in the forest. Little does he know he is putting himself in a dangerous stop if the

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