Many of us write, but few of us create literature. Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting is literature. She had created literature before Chapter 1 of the book, Within a few words, Babbitt wrote volumes–in the Prologue. Within a few words, Tuck Everlasting had become more than a mere spattering of words. Natalie Babbitt said the following about…
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Tuck Everlasting Chapter 2
Chapter 2 of Tuck Everlasting provides us with a beginning Character Study of Mae Tuck, just as is about to enter a new chapter of her life — a New Dawn. And so, at dawn, that day in the first week of August, Mae Tuck woke up and lay for a while beaming at the…
Tuck Everlasting Chapter 1
Chapter 1 of Tuck Everlasting contrasts the eternal, perfect freedom of nature, as opposed to the rigid, confined existence outside of nature. Treegap is the town at the edge of the Wood or Nature. “The road that led to Treegap had been trod out long before by a herd of cows who were, to say…
Tuck Everlasting – Prologue
Prologue “The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of…
The Secret Garden Chapter 4 – Jacki Kellum Notes – Looking at Lit Free Onine Book Club
The Secret Garden Illustrated by Inga Moore The Secret Garden Chapter 4 NOTES Morning Has Broken “When she opened her eyes in the morning it was because a young housemaid had come into her room to light the fire .”Burnett, pg. 30 The process of moving out of the darkness has begun. “The walls were…
The Secret Garden Chapter 3 – Jacki Kellum Notes – Looking at Lit Free Online Book Club
Illustrated by Inga Moore Jacki Kellum Notes on The Secret Garden During Chapter 3 of The Secret Garden, we begin to see glimmers of light. If you remember, in Chapter 2 of The Secret Garden, Mary was dressed all in black and while she was riding in a carriage toward the gloomy Misselthaite Manor, rain…
The Secret Garden Chapter 2 – Jacki Kellum Notes – Looking at Lit Free Online Book Club
Jacki Kellum Notes about Chapter 2 of The Secret Garden: The Secret Ga Frances Hodson Burnett Wrote The Secret Garden after the Main Period of Romanticism, but this book echoes many of its tenets. For instance, the Romanticists believed that Nature is a healer, and that is certainly a theme in this book, too. But…
The Secret Garden Chapter 1 – Jacki Kellum Notes – Looking at Lit Free Online Book Club
The Secret Garden Illustrated by Inga Moore CHAPTER I. THERE IS NO ONE LEFT When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair…
The Relatives Came – Perfect Picture Book – Why?
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant Illustrated by Stephen Gammel Cynthia Rylant has written a plethora of successful books for children, and Stephen Gammel’s illustrations never cease to amaze me. I have several books written by Rylant, and I have several books illustrated by Gammel. In my opinion, The Relatives Came is a perfect merger…
Writing Morning Pages – How They Work & Why – The Zen Master Advises to Empty Your Cup
In her book The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron tells would-be creators to write Morning Pages every day, 1. She does not suggest that participants write creatively as part of their Morning Pages. 2. She wants participants to simply write, write, write–to write whatever comes into their minds. The Morning Pages are a Way to Empty…