![]() ![]() Winnie Foster is 10 years old (in the movie 15). In the late 1900s, Jesse rides up to the tree on a motorcycle and visits Winnie’s grave under the spring. In the end of the film Winnie helps Mae escape from prison and chooses not to drink from the bottle but instead to die like all other mortals. Mae Tuck foils his plans when she clubs him in the head with a shotgun. He set out to find this family of immortals and sell the water they drank from for huge amounts of money. A greedy man known as The Man in the Yellow Suit has a plan based on childhood stories he heard from his grandmother about a family who could never die. She develops a deep love for Jesse Tuck, a one-hundred-four-year-old boy trapped in a seventeen year old’s body for all of eternity. Who Wants to Live Forever?: This is a major theme.Winnie is a young girl who runs away from home and encounters the Tucks, a family of immortal beings.Stockholm Syndrome: Winnie is technically kidnapped by the Tucks, but they didn't mean any harm by it.Pistol-Whipping: Mae Tuck smacks The Man in the Yellow Suit with a shotgun, fracturing his skull.No Name Given/ Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Man in the Yellow Suit.The Men in Black: The man in the yellow suit.In the movie, the changed her to be fifteen. Mayfly-December Romance: Winnie (who is ten years old in the novel) wants to marry Jesse when she turns seventeen.She didn't want him to force Winnie to drink the spring water and condemn her to an eternity of loneliness. That's the main reason she kills The Man in the Yellow Suit. Not to mention kidnapping Winnie for the same reason. Mama Bear: Mae's usually very sweet, but she kills The Man in the Yellow Suit to protect her family.However, the eldest Tuck son got married in the years after they drank from the spring and before they realized its effects he had children, but his wife eventually thought he'd made a Deal with the Devil and left him. Tuck was past childbearing age when she drank from the spring, so it isn't an issue for the elder Tucks. Immortal Procreation Clause: The Tucks don't age, they don't die.The Film of the Book: There are two different adaptations.Evil Detecting Cows: The first chapter of the book has the cows sensing something very wrong with the forest itself and quickly going around it.Deal with the Devil: The Tucks are suspected of this in-story.Complete Immortality: They don't age and they are Nigh Invulnerable.The Tucks take care to see that Winnie understands how staying young forever isn't as great as it sounds. There's also the obvious one about desiring immortality.But the experience turns out to be not so bad after all. Winnie wishes to get away from her family. Be Careful What You Wish For: Mild example.American Civil War: Miles was a soldier in the recent movie.Adaptation Expansion: Some padding is to be expected.The story has been adapted into a film twice: in 1981 by Office of Communications and in 2002 by Walt Disney Productions. Winnie must choose whether to live forever, and find how to save the Tucks. The Tucks are threatened by the man in a yellow suit until they are in grave danger. However, a man in a yellow suit is also after the secret behind the Tucks' immortality. The family shares with her the secrets of the spring. She is fascinated by Jesse Tuck, a boy who's really 104 years old. The Tucks became immortal after drinking water from a spring. She goes out exploring in the woods one day and meets the Tucks. Nothing exciting ever happens, and being in a family of straight-laced blue bloods has cramped her style. In the late 1800s, Winnie Foster's life is boring. Tuck Everlasting is a 1975 Fantasy novel exploring Immortality and whether it's worth it. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted.Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so. Before making a single edit, Tropedia EXPECTS our site policy and manual of style to be followed. ![]()
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