Why is tuck concerned about taking winnie home

He explains that by the time they realized the immortality of the water, it was too late to give any to his wife and children. They were too old and would have had a father as close in age as they were. Besides, Angus was dead set against allowing any more people to know the secret. Winnie sees another bullfrog and observes that it would be nice if nothing had to die. Then, she almost catches a fish but is glad when it gets away.

She leaves the fishing to Miles while she concludes that the Tucks are right. It is best if no one knows the secret. She asks Miles what he will do with all his time and he says that he wants to find a way to do something important.

Then, Miles catches a fish and throws it into the boat. It seems to be suffering to Winnie, and she begs him to put it back. With that, he concludes his evil deal. The purpose of this chapter is to emphasize the Man in the Yellow Suit as a symbol of evil. His greed makes him bargain the life of a child for something from which he hopes to profit. He is intimidating and is ironically more of a criminal than the Tucks who have seemingly kidnapped Winnie. Chapter 14 There is nothing for the Tucks to do now but go to bed.

Mae tells Winnie not to be scared and that they do not want to hurt her. They pass the stranger from the night before on the road and Winnie does not cry out for help.

When they reach a stream outside of town, they stop. Winnie realizes that she is small and weak and should not have left on her own. She begins to cry. Jesse, Miles, and Mae are all concerned, wishing that they had a better solution than kidnapping Winnie. Mae takes out her music box and it seems to calm Winnie. Mae hands it to Winnie and tells her to wind it.

Winnie tells her that she heard the music the night before and was told it was elves. Jesse tells Winnie that she needs to help them. Mae, Jesse, and Miles tell Winnie that they first found the spring eighty-seven years ago. The entire Tuck family, and the horse, drank from the stream. Then, they settled in a valley not far away.

Soon, the Tuck family discovered that they could not be injured, and they had stopped aging. Miles was married, but his wife thought his lack of aging was unnatural. They tell Winnie that if she had drunk from the spring, she would have stayed a little girl forever, never able to grow up. They explain to Winnie that it would be very bad if everyone knew about the spring. Winnie is skeptical but finds the Tuck family very convincing.

The Tucks promise to bring Winnie home the next day. Winnie agrees. She likes the Tuck family, especially Jesse. As they travel, she thinks that they are her friends and that she was running away after all.

She also considers that she might get to live forever. Winnie and the Tucks travel to their house to introduce Winnie to Angus. Mae gives Winnie her hat for protection from the hot August sun.

Winnie appreciates all the open space and fields. The Tuck house is small and red, with a pond next to it. Angus Tuck comes out to meet his family and is pleased that they have brought Winnie. The Tuck home is full of cobwebs and clutter. Winnie is surprised by it, but she thinks that it feels comfortable.

Mae tells Winnie that the Tucks did not deserve to live forever, whether it is a blessing or a curse. Mae explains to Winnie that they cannot stay anywhere too long, or people start to get suspicious of them. Mae also tells her that Jesse and Miles travel around, finding what work they can, but they meet during the first week of August every ten years so that they can be a family.

Winnie eats dinner with the Tucks and is surprised that they do not sit around a table and use napkins. While all of them eat in silence, Winnie reconsiders her situation.

She starts to believe that the Tucks are actually criminals and that she has been kidnapped. Winnie tells them that she wants to go home. Mae tells Winnie that she will take her home after Angus talks to her. Mae mentions that they passed someone on their way from the spring to their home the stranger in the yellow suit.

Winnie says that he probably told her father that the Tucks have taken her. After some discussion, Angus says that they need to get Winnie home soon. Angus takes Winnie out on the pond in a small rowboat. He describes the pond and all the living things in and around it. He tells her that they are all part of the wheel of life. He then tells her that the Tucks are like rocks on the side of the road, since they do not change and are no longer on the wheel of life.

He tells her that he would accept dying if it meant he could change. Angus tells Winnie that if people knew, they would all come and drink from the spring, but later they would regret living forever, as Angus does. Miles appears at the edge of the pond and yells to Angus and Winnie that someone has stolen the family horse.

It is almost midnight, but there are lights on inside the house. Angus Tuck wonders if a common thief stole their horse, or if the thief had some special reason. Mae tells him that he worries too much, and that the problem will have to wait until morning.

Winnie sleeps on the sofa, but it is uncomfortable. She is also unhappy that she does not have her nightgown or her usual bedtime routine. She never drank the water. The man in the yellow suit informs the Fosters that he wants them to sign over their land, the woods, to him.

The Tuck family feels that living forever makes them miss out on the human experience. Mae and Angus live comfortably, as they are experts at crafts they can sell to live off of. Death is natural and it must occur in order to have lived. She left his husband and took Anna and Beau with her because she thought he sold his soul to the devil.

Years later she died in an insane asylum. In the end, Mae and Tuck head out of Treegap with the music box music in their wake.