It really makes you feel grown-up, like you have your own desires—something that belongs just to you. Even if it is just in your head. On top of that, Winnie even plays the role of adult among the Tucks. We find her comforting them when they're down and sticking up for them when they're in trouble. And when the Tucks are telling her their story, the narrator uses language to show us that Winnie is kind of the leader of the pack:. It was the strangest story Winnie had ever heard.
She soon suspected they had never told it before, except to each other—that she was their first real audience; for they gathered around her like children at their mother's knee, each trying to claim her attention, and sometimes they all talked at once, and interrupted each other, in their eagerness.
If the Tucks are the "children" telling the story, excitedly looking for attention, Winnie is the "mother" whose attention is demanded. It's almost a reversal of what she's used to at home. Sure, she's still the object of everybody's focus, but this kind of attention is flattering and makes her feel grown-up.
The attention at home, on the other hand, is almost imprisoning. While we're on the growing-up-fast topic, nothing will make you mature as quickly as seeing a guy bashed in the head with the base of a shotgun. Don't try this at home. What's more, she has to keep everything she knows a total secret.
And once she's back with her family, it's pretty obvious that something has changed:. Soon after, they put her to bed, with many kisses. But they peered at her anxiously over their shoulders as they tiptoed out of her bedroom, as if they sensed that she was different now from what she had been before.
As if some part of her had slipped away. Meeting the Tucks grants Winnie's wish: after all, she does experience "something interesting—something that's all [hers]" 3. She gets a secret that's hers for life, an experience that nobody else would ever believe, and a choice nobody else has ever gotten to make. Oh yeah, and she witnesses a murder and helps a convicted criminal escape execution.
As you can tell, Winnie's character makes us ask a lot of questions. And some of these questions are pretty deep. We're talking the big guns: the meaning of life and death. Through the Tucks, Winnie learns that immortality might not be all it's cracked up to be. Remember when Tuck stares enviously at the dying Yellow Suit Guy Winnie definitely notices that. And she knows what it means—Tuck wishes that he, too, had the chance to die.
Living forever has gotten kind of old. She pleads with Winnie to understand that this must be kept a secret, and that they must take her home with them for at least one night to answer all her questions. The way they look at and they way they speak to her makes Winnie feel very special. So, like Jesse, she runs shouting down the road in happiness that the spring story might be true. Unfortunately, in her exultation and in their exuberance, she and the rest of the Tucks do not notice the Man in the Yellow Suit in the bushes where he has heard the whole story.
Nor do they notice that he begins to follow them with a slight smile above his thin, gray beard. Not only is she being asked to act like an adult and keep the secret, but she has found friends who take away her fear of being alone and give her wings to fly.
The man in the yellow suit goes to the Fosters to get them to sign over their ownership of the woods. Mae hit the man in the yellow suit in the head with the shotgun. The man in the yellow suit is looking for the spring that made the Tucks immortal. He heard the story passed down through his family, and he believes it. When he hears the music box in the woods, he is convinced that it is real.
This man wants to find the family because he wants to earn immortal life himself. Mae and Angus Tuck attack him and he is killed by a blow to the head.
Just as they exit the woods, they bump in to the stranger who then, unnoticed, follows them. Finally out of the woods, the Tucks try to comfort a very upset Winnie. The man in the yellow suit knows about the Tucks because his grandma told him stories about them. He pursues their story by studying a lot of medical issues and chasing after them. It was the one pretty thing she owned and she never went anywhere without it.
The Tucks are suspicious, but Angus tells everyone to let the man speak. In Chapter 19, the man in the yellow suit reveals that he knows about the spring that bequeaths eternal longevity to anyone who drinks from it. He announces to the Tucks that the woods and spring now belong to him.
They would be denied the chance to experience a real and complete life. In essence, he would undo the drink from the spring and allow himself a natural death. What does the Man in the Yellow Suit plan to do with the spring water? He plans to drink it and then destroy the spring. He plans to sell it and make a lot of money.
He plans to give it away to people who are sick. Next, he tells Winnie that he is actually looking for a family. What did the tall man want from Winnie and her grandmother? He was looking for someone. What was at the bottom of ash tree at the center of the wood? When the man in the yellow suit sees Granny, he stops to talk to her and asks her if she is fit. Granny is suspicious because he is in a suit, and a yellow one at that. It is flashy and preposterous.
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