Winnie is 10 years old in Babbitt’s novel and 15 in the 2002 film adaptation. While in hiding, Winnie grows fond of the family, particularly Jesse, and begins to debate whether she should drink from the spring in order to be with him forever. Meanwhile, the family is being pursued by a man in a yellow suit, who has been searching for the Tucks for years in hopes of exposing their secret. In an attempt to stop her from drinking the mysterious spring water, the Tucks kidnap Winnie and later explain that the spring water grants eternal life to anyone who drinks from it. She meets a boy named Jesse Tuck one day in the woods, drinking from a spring. Tuck Everlasting follows young Winnie Foster, who is stifled by the expectations of her wealthy family in the small American town of Treegap.
The novel’s themes of what it means to live forever and fearing the unlived life were in fact monumental in helping me begin to confront my anxiety over growing up and leading a fulfilled life. But when I reread Tuck Everlasting-a children’s novel-I wasn’t burying my head in the sand and ignoring the newfound adult responsibilities that were piling up. I was scared of growing up, so I retreated back into my childhood, staying there longer than I should have. Since it had been quite a while since I had read it last, I also decided that I was well overdue for a reread.Īt this point, I was in an awkward stage of life, poised on the line between childhood and adulthood. That year, I found Tuck Everlasting, the same edition that I read in 5th grade, and knew that I needed to buy it. In college, as a Literature major, I had this unspoken habit at the beginning of every semester in the school bookstore: while browsing for the books I needed for my own classes, I would also tend to buy other books that I didn’t need for school, but rather for my own bookshelf. It would be another eight years before Tuck Everlasting would reenter my life and start making more sense to me. We also watched the 2002 film adaptation by Disney, starring Alexis Bledel and Jonathan Jackson, which I also fell in love with and watched several more times that year. There aren’t many books that I read in elementary school that I remember liking, but I loved Tuck Everlasting, and it was one of those unique reading experiences where you know something resonates with you but you aren’t old or mature enough yet to understand why. The first time I read Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlastingwas in elementary school, 5th grade. Find him on his website and follow him on Twitter and Instagram He is also the co-host of a Gilmore Girls podcast, Coffee With a Shot of Cynicism. In addition to Book Riot, his writing can be found at Collider, PopMatters, Spectrum Culture, and other places.
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Jeffrey Davies is a professional introvert and writer with imposter syndrome whose work spans the worlds of pop culture, books, music, feminism, and mental health.
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