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- This book is one of my favorite fairy tales. It captivates the reader’s attention.
The writing is superb. Winnie, a rather bored and spoiled child, gets
kidnapped by the way of life of the Tuck family which would change her
life forever.
The Tucks which most of us readers envy drinks from a well that
grants them eternal life. They are condemned to live forever. After reading this book, most of us
mortals get to appreciate non eternal life. At least, not the eternal
life package they get; that is living forever in the wood, in a
restricted world where there is no evolution of any sorts. Their secret of not ever to be old
will be revealed if they keep Mae Tuck in prison for life. Then came the most difficult decision
a child must make.
- This child would want to have
age and experience on her side to make such a drastic decision, however,
the decision is meant to be made early in life, so early only children
are offered such a painful opportunity.
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- Winnie Foster sat on the grass and talked to the toad. She was tried of
her mother and grandmother always watching her. She was thinking of
running away
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- A stranger, the man in the yellow suit, came strolling up the road.
- He noticed Winnie trying to catch fireflies in her yard.
- They had a chat, and she discovered he was looking for a family.
- Her grandmother comes to see who is there.
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- When Winnie and her grandmother were out at the iron fence talking with
the man in the yellow suit, they heard music coming from the woods.
Winnie's grandmother thought it was elves. Winnie thought it was coming
from a music box.
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- Winnie runs away from her home and goes to the Treegap wood. Although
her family owns the woods, she had never explored it before.
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- In her walk through the Treegap woods, Winnie discovers Jesse at the
base of the
large tree drinking from the spring and washing his face.
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- Once Winnie discovers the magic spring, the Tucks kidnap Winnie
and bring her back by horse to their home.
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- The Tucks bring Winnie back to their home where she meets Angus Tuck.
They explain to her about the magic spring and how they have been the
same for 87 years.
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- The man in the yellow suit had been following Winnie and the Tucks.
Her heard their whole conversation and now knows the secret.
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- Tuck takes Winnie rowing on the pond, so he can explain what has
happened
and why they can't let the secret get out.
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- The man in the yellow suit steals the Tucks horse. He knocks on the
Foster's door
to tell them he knows where Winnie is.
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- The constable is woken up out of bed in the middle of the night
to go to the Foster house and investigate the claim. The
constable and the man
in the yellow suit make their way on their horses to the Tuck
house.
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- Miles takes Winnie fishing in the pond. They catch a fish
but Winnie demands that Miles puts it back in the water.
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- Mae Tuck hits the man in the yellow suit in the head with the stock of
a
shotgun. She is brought to jail for her crime.
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- Jesse goes to visit Winnie by the iron fence. He says his goodbyes and
gives her
a bottle of the spring water, telling her to take it when she
turns 17.
Winnie decides to pour it on a toad, letting him live forever.
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- During an electrical storm, the large tree at the centre of Treegap is
stroke by
lightning. A large portion of the woods burns; the rest has to be
bulldozed down.
The spring is no more.
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