Tuck Everlasting Grade 7 MYP test flashcards

Tangent

a completely different line of thought or action; to start talking about something that is only slightly or indirectly related to the original subject; digression, departure

Melancholy

a feeling of absorbed sadness, typically with no obvious cause

Melancholy synonyms

Mournful, gloomy, forlorn, glum, heavy-hearted, miserable

Retort

say something in answer to a remark or accusation, typically in a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive manner

Galling

annoying, humiliating, irritating, infuriating

Submission

The action or fact of accepting or yielding to a superior force or to the will or authority of another person

Disarray

a state of disorganisation or untidiness

Barbarian

person in a savage, primitive state; uncivilised person

Illiterate

unable to read or write

Alien

not familiar or like other things you have known, different from what you are used to

Fleeting

lasting for a very short time; brief, short, quick, momentary

Gingerly

showing great care or caution

Prostrate

completely overcome and lacking vitality, will, or power to rise; drained, or exhausted

Ebb

Gradually lessen or reduce or weaken, Often used with water waves

imposing

Grand and impressive in appearance; striking, eye-catching

first week of August

Top of the Ferris wheel

Giant ash tree

centre of the wood

Tuck lifespan

immortal

Jesse age

104 years old

springwater

The water that granted the Tucks immortality

Mae music box

Winnie’s grandmother thought it was Elves who made the sounds.

Unusual kidnapping

chapter 6’s events has the Tucks taking Winnie away, while unusually pleading.

Fosters conditions

Very strict, with a squeaky clean cottage and a fortress out of duty.

Tucks conditions

Carelessness, Dirty

Mae Tuck

Mother of Jesse & Miles

Mae murder

She murdered the man in the yellow suit with physical assault from the buttstock of a shotgun, and got arrested for that.

Angus Tuck

Father of Jesse & Miles

Angus wishing death

Angus wants to die from his dreams about being dead, and he thinks he and his family are stuck.

Jesse Tuck

First of the Tucks to meet Winnie

Jesse and Winnie

Jesse gave Winnie the spring water of immortality in order for her to be with the Tucks forever

Miles Tuck

Carpenter Tuck

Miles family

his family left him because they thought he ‘sold his soul to the devil’.

Winifred Foster

Daughter of the Fosters

Winnie feelings

she actually wants liberty, contrasted with her authoritarian surroundings.

Mrs. Foster

Visibly authoritarian with controlling Winnie, as she prevented Winnie from sitting on a lawn for dirtying Winnie’s clothes

Mr. Foster

He sold the spring of immortality to the man in the yellow suit

Granny

Thinks that Mae’s music box was the noise of Elves

Yellow suit thinking

He thinks that the Tucks are illiterate barbarians.

Yellow suit advertising

He wants to advertise the spring of immortality to the wealthy

Constable

The person who arrested Mae for charges on murder

Value of life and death

Life is built to die, and immortality causes discrepancies to the death cycle, giving pain to everyone else.

Freedom and choice

Ones living under authority will be in elation when they encounter freedom, where it influences them to mimic the actions of their heroes.

Family and Connection

True friendship and bonding surpasses family

Ferris wheel

Cycle of life, where the Tucks are absent from the cycle

Spring

Grants immortality

Toad

Symbolises Winnie’s freedom, maturity and parenting

Pond

Another symbolism for the cycle of life, where the boat gets stuck, symbolising the Tucks.

Music box

The Tucks’ humanity and goodness

Foster on Music box

The Fosters recognise them as alien elves, thus having no humanity

Music box bond

Represents the bond between Winnie & the Tucks

No connection

Mae meeting Miles and Jesse, Winnie running away, and the stranger at the Fosters

Setting

Treegap in presumably the 1800s, where shotguns are common.

Cows path

They created a path around the woods, isolating the spring of immortality.

Mae and Tuck

Husband and Wife

Looking same for years

The spring of immortality caused them to look the same for ages.

Winnie running away

She runs away to know the truth about the music box.

Jesse preventing Winnie

Jesse prevents her from drinking from the spring, because of the pain of immortality.

Winnie kidnapping

Winnie’s kidnapped in order to explain the reason why they’re immortal.

Tuck events

Falling off trees and knocking on the head, Snake bite, Poison toadstools, Slicing bodies, Shotgun blast

Spring secret

This is a secret because of the consequences of sharing this information around the public (it sparks interest)

Yellow suit eavesdrop

He eavesdrops on the Tucks’ story, learning about the story of immortality

Natural child

someone that ages, unlike the Tucks

Horse immortality

The Tucks’ horse is also immortal.

Yellow suit paradox

He wants to return Winnie like a hero, but he wants to sell the springwater for benefits like a villain.

Tucks checking on Winnie

Mae wished she was a part of the family, Jesse suggested Winnie to drink the springwater for immortality (advocatus diaboli), and Angus was thinking of staying up until everyone slept.

Yellow suit manipulation

He manipulates the Fosters through the use of tone against the Tucks as ‘illiterate barbarians’.

Yellow suit Winnie father

He doesn’t let Winnie’s father come to rescue her, as The man in the yellow suit’s planning on seeking an opportunity within the Fosters’ woods (immortality)

Miles sharing

Miles shares information about his daughter Anna, who’s mortal and therefore dead.

Mosquitoes

The creature that helped Winnie understand that immortality is no good.

Miles usefulness

He wants Winnie to think that people must embrace their social nature.

Winnie criminal vision

She made friendly facial expressions against Angus, and she was resisting against the man in the yellow suit

Yellow suit mentioning

The man in the yellow suit mentions Miles’ daughter

Gallow

Noose for execution through asphyxiation

Mae no gallows

Mae mustn’t go to the gallows because she wouldn’t even die.

Winnie different

Winnie was lonely without the Tucks, and mentions a family-like bond with the Tucks.

Mae escape plan

Miles uses his carpenting to pry the bars in order to rescue Mae from prison.

Jesse giving spring

He gave the springwater to Winnie so that when she’s 17, she would drink it and become forever with the Tucks

Storm covert

The storm disguised the escape of Mae through suppressing the prying noises.

Winnie left free

Winnie wasn’t punished for being too young to be punished by the law

Winnie punishment

Winnie was condemned to the yard and can’t go anywhere

Winnie with spring

Winnie instead gave the springwater to the toad, granting it immortality.

Yellow suit Winnie talking

he talks to Winnie about how long the family lived within the cottage area, to check whether they were the immortal family within the area he was hunting for.