Essay Sample on Tuck Everlasting: Book vs. Movie

The Tuck Everlasting book is coming of age novel about the circle of life and you should never take the life you have for granted. The story takes place in a small town called Treegap in New Hampshire and follows the story of a young girl named Winnie Foster. As she learns to mature and meets the Tuck family that she helps protect them from the man yellow suit who is the breaking antagonist in the story 

There are many similarities between the book and the movie of Tuck Everlasting. One of the first things that are the same between the book and in the movie is how she feels trapped inside her own home. In the movie, Winnie gets yelled at for playing baseball with the other kids while her mom gets something from the store. Wale in the book Winnie is not even allowed outside the walls of the fence surrounding her house. Another similarity between the book and the movie is that the Man in the Yellow got Winnie's parents to trade the wood for Winnie. In the book he barely lets Winnieś family talk whale making the deal for the wood. In the movie, The man yellow suit came to their house, and the Winnie family yelled at him thinking he helped the kidnappers. In the end, Winnie´s parents decided to give him the land for their daughter. A third similarity between the movie and the book is that Winnie and Jassie the man protagonists in the story meet the same way. In the book, Winnie is spying on him when she hears a weird noise from where he was standing and sees the brook. But in the books she only sees him drinking the water and splashing the water on his face to cool down. The Fourth similarity between both stories is that the water from the spring lets Tucks never age. This is in shown the movie and books when Mae, Jessie, Miale, and Tuck take a brink from the spring and they begin to note something strange is happening to their family when they all have life fretting incidents and don't die from any of incidents.  

In the movie, they don’t always stick close to the book telling of the story. For starters, some of the characters have different personalities than in the book. Miles is colder and aggressive towards his family and Winnie because when he kidnaps Winnie, miles throw her on the ground and yells at Jessie. Wale in the book he kind to Winnie and takes her out fishing in the morning and throws the fish he got back into the water when Winnie starts to cry about the fish. Another part of the story the movie changed was Winnie and Jessie's relationship. In the movie, Jesse and Winnie share a passionate kiss in front of a fire. But in the Tuck Everlasting book, Jessie and Winnie talk about running away in the middle of the night and getting married. So their feelings for each other were hinted at but not shown. A third difference between the Tuck Everlasting book and the movie is the jailhouse break out in the story. In the book, the Tuck family and Winnie brakes out Mae quietly by pulling out the bars from the window during the thunderstorm. While in the movie Jessie and Miles dress in black clocks and top hats and walk to the jailhouse to distract the guards while Winnie sneaks into the jailhouse and breaks out Mae. The fourth, part of the story the movie changed from Natalie Babbitt's original story is that Mae Tuck is not the only person who is taken to the Jailhouse when she kills the Man In The Yellow Suit. In the book after Mae kills him, she is put on the back of the fat horse and taken to the jailhouse to determine if she will be hanged. But in the movies When Mae is getting handcuffed by the Constable Tuck burns down their house and gets surrounded by men and taken to the jailhouse with Mae. A fifth difference between the two stories is the epilogue. In the book, Mae and Tuck come into the town on their curt lead by the fat houres and Tuck finds that Winnie passed away a year ago.     

I would not recommend the Tuck Everlasting movie to anyone who enjoyed the book because they changed so much from the story of Natalie Babbitt's rout including Winnie age. Put other than that Winnie wight dress in the movie look exactly like what you imagine when your reading and Treegap look exactly what you imagine it has that small-town feel. This is my review of the Tuck Everlasting movie and book.