Lesson Summary
Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting is the story of a young girl who is faced with the difficult decision to live forever, or let her life continue as planned. After meeting the Tuck family, Winnie Foster learns of a spring's power to give people immortality, or the chance to live forever.
What is the message of Tuck Everlasting?
One of the primary messages in Tuck Everlasting is that every living thing must die someday, and that death is actually not such a bad thing, because you have to die if you are going to live.
What happened in Tuck Everlasting?
The huge tree has been destroyed, and Tuck finds Winnie's grave and discovers that she has been dead for two years. In the end, Mae and Tuck head out of Treegap with the music box music in their wake.
