Questions
1. How did the stranger first learn about the Tucks and the fact that they never aged?
2. Why does the stranger want the wood and spring?
3. What offer does the stranger make the Tucks? How do they react?
4. Why does Mae Tuck strike the stranger?
5. Why does Winnie feel that she must keep Mae Tuck from going to the gallows?
6. How does Winnie's family treat her when she returns home?
7. Why does Winnie take a bowl of water outside?
8. What does Jesse give Winnie?
9. How does the weather change as Winnie and the Tucks help Mae escape? How does the weather aid in the rescue?
l0. How does Winnie help Mae get away? Have you ever done anything you knew you would get in trouble for - because you felt that it was the right thing to do?
Answers
1. The stranger first learned about the Tucks and how they never aged because his grandmother told him stories about this odd family that never aged. The stranger’s grandmother was friends with Miles wife.
2. The stranger wants the wood and the spring because that is where the magical water that makes someone immortal is found. He thinks that living forever would be great and that everyone would think so as well. So he could sell the water that makes you live forever from the spring in the woods, and make a fortune.
1.3. The stranger offered the Tucks to pay them to be demonstrations of the water and how you can never die if they showed him where the spring was. If the Tuck's didn't want to accept this offer the stranger would find the spring by himself and use Winnie as a demonstration.
4. Mae Tuck striked the stranger because he was taking Winnie. If the stranger got Winnie he would take her to the Foster’s and get the wood and the spring in return. He would then sell the water, found in the woods, that makes people immortal. The Tuck’s knew what it is like to live forever and that it wouldn’t be a good thing for people.
5. Winnie feels like she must keep Mae out of the gallows because if she never snuck out of the house, she would've never met the Tucks and know about the water so she wouldn’t of gotten kidnapped and the stranger would've never of had the chance to get the water so Mae wouldn’t of killed him. She also knew if Mae went to the gallows, she wouldn't be able to die, and people would find out about the water from the spring.
6. Winnie’s family was very relieved when she got home and treated her like a baby. They fed her, petted her, and even insisted on a bath.
7. Winnie takes the bowl of water outside to pour on the toad because she thought the toad looked thirsty. Toads don’t drink water but absorb it, which is why she poured the water on him from the bowl.
8. Jesse gives Winnie a bottle of water from the spring, which she could drink when she was 17 so she could live forever and marry him.
9. First it was a little dark, but then the weather changed and there came a thunderstorm. This weater helped the Tucks blend in with the bight while they were trying to help Mae escape because it was so dark.
10. Winnie replaces Mae in the jailhouse and pretends to sleep. This way, the constable would think that Mae was still in the cell, so the Tucks had time to run away. Our group has also done things we might of got in trouble for, but we knew it was the right thing to do. We have all stood up for a friend, knowing very well that we might get made fun of or in trouble for causing a fight in school. Yet we knew standing up for our friend was the right thing to do.
