What is Chapter 7 of Tuck Everlasting about?
Chapter 7 Summary. The Tucks told Winnie of how they came to find the spring. Each one of them had taken a drink from the water: Jesse, Miles, Mae, Tuck and the horse. The cat had refused to drink from the spring and although he lived a long life, he eventually died.
What is Chapter 23 about in Tuck Everlasting?
When a stranger tries to take Winnie away from the Tucks, Mae, the mother of the Tuck family, protects Winnie by hitting him with a rifle butt, killing him. She is arrested and will be hanged if Winnie and the other Tucks don’t do something to stop it.
What is Chapter 21 about in Tuck Everlasting?
In this chapter, Winnie is returned to her overjoyed family by the constable. Her grandmother claims that the elves made her go with the Tucks. She learns that the man in the yellow suit has died from the gunshot wound inflicted by Mae.
What is Chapter 13 about in Tuck Everlasting?
In chapter 13 of ‘Tuck Everlasting’ by Natalie Babbitt, the stranger steals the horse from the Tucks so that he can quickly ride to the Foster home to tell them where Winnie has been taken.
What happens in chapter 9 of Tuck Everlasting?
Chapter nine opens on a scene of a hot August day as Winnie, Jesse, Miles, and Mae continue their journey toward the Tuck’s home. Winnie is exhausted and sunburned; Miles carries her some of the way and she falls asleep in his arms. Mae lets her wear her blue hat to protect her from further sunburns.
What happens in chapter 5 of Tuck Everlasting?
Chapter 5. Winnie awakens the next morning with the realization that sometime during the night, she had made up her mind to run away. However, in another part of her head is her oldest fear: she is afraid to go away alone. It makes her worry that the Toad will be out by the fence and know her fear.
What happened in chapter 24 of Tuck Everlasting?
Winnie Helps Mae When the stranger dies, Mae is arrested and will likely be hanged for murder. Winnie has grown to love the Tucks and can’t let that happen. In Chapter 24 of Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, Winnie meets the Tucks at the jail at midnight to help Mae break free.
What happens in chapter 25 of Tuck Everlasting?
Chapter 25 is the last chapter in Tuck Everlasting. In this chapter, the reader learns what happens after Winnie helps Mae Tuck escape from jail and how Winnie uses the magic water that Jesse gave her.
What happened in chapter 22 of Tuck Everlasting?
In Chapter 22 of Tuck Everlasting, Winnie contemplates how she can help Mae. Soon Jesse comes to give her an update and she decides to help rescue Mae from the jail.
What happened in chapter 10 of Tuck Everlasting?
Winnie is exposed to even more change in her life when she goes inside the Tuck cottage. In her home, her mother and grandmother were experts at order and cleanliness, but in the Tuck home, it is a homely little place with dust and cobwebs and even a mouse that lives in a table drawer.