Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt Book Review
📌Category: | Books |
📌Words: | 523 |
📌Pages: | 2 |
📌Published: | 15 January 2022 |
Who would want to face death? The harsh reality of ending your whole life. Doesn’t sound so great does it? Maybe it isn’t as bad as we all think…
The novel Tuck Everlasting written by Natalie Babet in 1975, is about a young girl who is on the verge of womanhood, and feels discontent with her sheltered life. She comes upon the tax and they immediately take her as one of their own. However, the Talks hold a powerful secret and Winnie must decide whether to return to our life or staying with the tax.
So what do we actually learn from this book? The idea of living forever is an important thing and Tuck Everlasting, because the author uses her characters, the tax, to stress the different perspectives of this dilemma.
Tuck Everlasting has a major life lessons demonstrated throughout the novel. The lesson of “the wheel” Takes place in the middle where top describes the cycle of birth and death on the pond as resembling a wheel. “No not now. Your time is not now. But dying is a part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can’t have a living without dying.“ Says Angus talk. This evidence explains that we all have to die at one point where we want to or not. I believe this is one of the strongest messages Tuck Everlasting teaches us. This all represents the cycle of life, only the tax I removed from the cycle.
The man in the yellow suit is introduced in the book And plays a big part in teaching us a strong message. But who wouldn’t give a fortune to live for ever? He quotes. The man in the yellow suits motive is to bring forward the lesson of greed and that it only ends in devastation. After he got ownership of the word, he died showing simply wish his life away. He focused on what he didn’t have until the time he actually got it, it ended. This taught me a large lesson to see the things I have rather than the things I don’t have.
Lastly, the importance of growing up. The book suggest that and awareness of death is necessary for truly growing up. The talks through the book tell Winnie how they wish they were able to grow up and not stay in the age they were forever. If I know how to climb back on the wheel, I do it in a minute. I want to go again and change. And if that means I’ve got a move on at the end of it, then I wat that too. So, if Winnie was to have a drink the water when she turned 17, would it have been a good choice? I believe it wouldn’t of been. Why drink the water when you could live your life to the fullest and value the life you’re living as it doesn’t last forever. Growing up is simply part of the wheel.
In conclusion the novel Tuck Everlasting Teaches us about humanity Edward it really might mean to live forever. The book creates excellent environment for young readers to take value in their life and to not wish it away. It’s gives us insight onto how others see life And opens Up new ideas. The real question is.… Would you drink the water?