Theme Analysis in Tuck Everlasting
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Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
By Lauren Ayube
Ten-year-old Winnie Foster is bored with her life. An only child with very serious parents, Winnie often daydreams about running away. One day, while in the woods, she comes across a boy drinking water from a spring. Little did she know that this chance encounter would change her life forever.
Storyboard Description
Have students identify themes in Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt and illustrate examples from the text!
Storyboard Text
- IMMORTALITY
- I brought you this bottle of the spring water. When you are seventeen, you can drink it and we can live together forever.
- There. You're safe. Forever.
- LOYALTY
- The main theme of the novel is immortality. The Tucks will never age, they will never die. Time truly doesn’t mean anything to them. When Winnie was given the choice to live forever or not, she chose not to. Would you have made that same choice?
- Winnie is extremely loyal to the Tuck family. One example of this is when she insists that she wasn’t kidnapped by them. Another example is when she takes a big risk by offering to pretend to be Mae in jail so the family can have more time to run away.
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