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Summary: A wonderful book that will fascinate you.
Review: When I first started reading this book I wasn't sure what type of book it was until youv'e read it all. The other creates brilliant visuals in this story that you will not want to put this book down. I loved this book from the begining to the end, and I enjoyed it all. I also liked how the author fascinates you with the characters, and the water that will never let you die. This book will fascinate readers of all ages in many different ways.
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Summary: Okay
Review: I read this in school and thought it was okay. The plot was good and I really liked it. The only thing I didnt like was the ending. The ending could have been a lot better then how Babbit wrote it. I still reccomend it to anyone in sixth grade and up.
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Summary: This Book is Pretty Good
Review: I am a 6th graderwho has just finished reading Tuck Everlasting. I enjoyed it. I also have a comment: The characters could be expressed more clearly. But still, Mrs. Babbitt did an excellent job again. I would reccommend this book to anyone in 5th grade and up.
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Summary: I read this is school!
Review: This is a very good book and my teacher always picks that best books for the class and this was great! Another good book is Toliver's Secret and The Missing Gator of Gumbo Limbo are good books also!
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Summary: I really liked it, but I disliked the ending
Review: Some may call it sketchy, others may call it "weird". But the idea behind Natalie Babbit's novel is an incredible one. If you are offered the chance to live forever, offered the chance to sacrifice something for something that could change the world. . . would you do it? That's what Winnie Foster is faced with. My mind could see the pictures in the story. . . it was well written with not too much action. There was enough break and natural stopping to keep it from being "Fast Fast Fast Fast, sort of Fast, Fast Fast Fast" as many books are. I suggest you read it, but don't expect it to end happily ever after. It's well written, and I admire Natalie Babbit for her bravery in writing on such a subject.
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Summary: A DANGEROUS BOOK
Review: Tuck Everlasting takes a rather different tact on religion. In this amazingly economical tale, Babbitt deals with religion's basic promise of eternal life by standing the idea on its head very much in the manner of Wallace Stevens' short and remarkable poem, "The Good Man Has No Shape." Stevens' poem on religion's contentious role in the rise of Man uses a counterlever, ironic structure wherein he cloaks the tale of the slowly unfolding role of Man as Savior in the garb of the Jesus story. He has his good Man betrayed, tried, crucified, mocked by the anti-humanist believers, and by inference resurrected through the power of his human imagination. He thus establishes poetry as the "Necessary Angel" and puts the enemy to rout by answering its "no eternal life" jibes with a humanist resurrection story of his own. Natalie Babbitt is working in much the same territory in that she takes the basic, haunting question -- if a man die, shall he live again? -- and reverses it to ask, if a man were not to die, could he truly live. In dramatizing her unexpected response to this religious question, she uses the seemingly ordinary Tuck family and their "Savior" Winnie and plays them off against a loose version of the Biblical story. The book's dynamic is the Tucks' dual burden of not only enduring the pain of everlasting life but protecting all mankind from gaining the knowledge that such an existence is possible. The beginnings of the ironic reversal lie in the Tucks' protectionist role that is contrary to that of Jesus and his followers who expended themselves trying to let all the world know of this eternal possibility. Moreover, as Winnie helps the Tucks, she serves as an ironic "savior," for she is only reluctantly released to distant yards, and life itself, by her timid, orderly family. Moreover, she only accidentally comes to see the truth of eternal life and must be mentored slowly into an understanding of her special role in guarding that precious secret. The Yellow-Suited, Demonic presence, too, expresses the same ironic twist on the Christian story, for his evil purpose is to release (admittedly at high price) the secret of eternal life, rather than to war against that condition as does Satan. The irony is further advanced by Mae Tuck, who, in confronting his totally evil intentions, releases her life force against him in a death blow much like the evil Claggart received from speechless Billy Budd. She thus kills to protect man from the secret of eternal life, while Jesus had enlivened Lazarus to reveal His power over death. Perhaps the highest moment of irony begins to emerge when Mae Tuck lies in prison knowing that her failure to die when publicly executed (on an inverted L) will surely unveil the Tuck secret. This is a clear reversal of the fact that Jesus' death at the hands of the Romans allowed Him to demonstrate His everlasting nature. It is at this crisis moment that Winnie fully realizes her necessary role in the Tuck drama. She sees that she must take Mae's place in jail in order to protect the Tucks' rare knowledge. Thus she serves as an ironic substitute in that as a mortal she can perish (she will not, of course) whereas Mae cannot afford to fail at death before a crowd. The mortal subs for the immortal, while in the Bible the reverse is true. Winnie's not dying thus saves humanity by allowing us to die, whereas Jesus died that we should live eternally. Natalie Babbitt has thus, through Tuck Everlasting, ironically banished the anxiety surrounding death and the concomitant hope for eternal life by making death life-giving. And in so doing she has made a sharp incursion into the heartland of religion by undercutting what Sigmund Freud, Norman O. Brown, and others see as its raison d'être. Babbitt is a teller of spritely, quick tales that are clearly to be enjoyed primarily as spritely, quick tales. Like Twain, she has declared that her books do not teach serious lessons. But, lurking in her words and under her dark rocks, are Vonnegut's and Stevens' treacherous questions that shadow religion: Is it real? Does it overcome death?
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Summary: Review for Tuck Everlasting.
Review: Tuck Everlasting was a wonderful book to read. It tells youabout a family lives with a problem they can not fix or undo. The conclusion is that, you living forever is not the greatest thingin the world. It has its ups but mostly downs, but the story shows she had compassion for the living and that was the concern living for a frog, now thats what i call, a caring person for the living. She didn't think about her self but for a being of life, a life God created.
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Summary: Review for Tuck Everlasting.
Review: Tuck Everlasting was a wonderful book to read. It tells you about a family lives with a problem they can not fix or undo. Its about a story of a family that drinks from a scream that God had created, it was the river of youth. At first they love after a life of no pain and a life where you can live forever but, as time passes by it gets bad. The people thay start to love dies, at first they ddin't know about it but until there cat dies and there horses doesn't, and they don't, like i said the first time, they loved it but things with sour. Until oneday her son meets a little girl name winnie and then she find out the fasnating that happened to them and she grows to love them and they grow to love her but there ways a frog she loved and cared about to, that she didn't want to die, but someone finds out a bout them and he tries to use them and find out about them that could destory the world because if anyone else found out about the screan of water, like that bad man he would use it for himself to have everlasting life, then he would use it to make money but, they found away to stop him, and they leave but since they loved her so much, they give her a jar of the water and tells her when she gets older to drink the water and they will come back for her so she can live forever like they are. But as she was concern a little poor frog, she pours the water on him so he can have a life of living forever, then years passed and they come back but they don't come back until she had turn very old and when they came, they couldn't find her, but they thought she didn't drink the water, so they went to the ceremtery, and there she lies, in her grave and a tomestone that says "Here lies my beloved mother and wife. They were said but they knew she was a kind and giving person. So they left never to return again, but the most fastinating thing happened on the way leaving the town the little frog she poured the water on hopped in front of the wagan wheel and they said, move out the way, you think your going to live forever and that was the end of the book. The conclusion is that, you living forever is not the greatest thing in the world. It has its ups but mostly downs, but the story shows she had compassion for the living and that was the concern living for a frog, now thats what i call, a caring person for the living. She didn't think about her self but for a being of life, a life God created. By Tamika Williams
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Summary: Unforgettable
Review: This book will never leave my mind and my imagination. It has always been my favorite book for years. The story creates such a vivid picture in the readers minds and allows for them to see into a different world of neverending life. I've read it over and over again becuase each time you can get something new out of it. Happy reading!
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Summary: GET AWAY FROM THOSE TUCKS
Review: I REALLY COULDN'T GET INTO IT UNTIL THE SIXTH CHAPTER BUT AFTER THAT IT WAS GREAT. MY FRIEND IS A SIXTH GRADE TEACHER AND SHE SAID THAT THE STUDENTS WONDERED WHY WHEN WINNIE GOT KIDNAPPED SHE DID'NT SCEARM OR TRY TO RUN AWAY. THEY ALSO WONDERED WHY THAT THE TUCKS WERE SO NICE AND PLEASANT TO WINNIE. ALTHOUGHT WINNIE DID HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A CRUSH ON JESSEE TUCK WHEN SHE FIRST SAW HIM! I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO GRADES FOUR THRU SIX. IT IS A BOOK EVERY SINGLE ADULT SHOULD HAVE AT LEST ONCE OR EVEN SAW THE INSIDE AND NOT JUST THE OUTSIDE COVER.
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