Summary
Characters
“All right. I'm one hundred and four years old," he told her solemnly"
Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt, 1975, p. 28
Winifred “Winnie” Foster
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Protagonist
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10 years old
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Runs away from home and meets the Tucks
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Hates structure and her strict life
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Questions life
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Brown hair, green eyes
Jesse Tuck
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Immortal
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17 years old forever
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Really 104 years old
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Winnie’s love interest
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Loves Winnie
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First Tuck that Winnie meets
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Handsome
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Youngest son in the Tuck family
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Brown hair, green-blue eyes
Angus Tuck
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Dad of the Tuck family
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Hates being immortal
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Called Pa
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Married Mae Tuck
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Father to Jesse and Miles Tuck
Mae Tuck
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Mom of the Tuck family
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Married to Angus Tuck
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Mother to Jesse and Miles Tuck
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Kills the “The Strange Man in the Jaunty Yellow Suit”
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Realist
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Doesn’t wish for death like Angus
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Kind & Loving
Miles Tuck
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Had a wife and children
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He tells Winnie that immortality is not everything
The Strange Man in the Jaunty Yellow Suit
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Obsessed with finding the Tuck family
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Wears an yellow suit, described as faded and jaunty
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He negotiates a deal with Winnie’s parents for their land for getting Winnie back
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He plans to sell the spring water as a business
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He is killed by Mae Tuck
Winnie’s Mother
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Mother to Winnie and married to her father
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Strict
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Opposite of the Tuck family mother
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Little is known about her
Winnie’s Father
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Father to Winnie and married to her mother
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Strict
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Opposite of the Tuck family father
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Little is known about him
Winnie’s Grandmother
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Grandmother to Winnie
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Strict
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Opposite of the Tuck family
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Recognizes the song in the woods from her childhood
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Little is known about her
The Constable
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Town law enforcer
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Nosy
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Absent minded
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Isn’t good at his job
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Talkative
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Annoying
