For a few years, I lived in Harrison, Arkansas, which is located in the heart of the beautiful Ozark Mountains. For my first day trip, I elected to go out to the area Along the highway, I passed some other notable spots that I’ll talk about later, but by the time that I had reached…
Category: Tuck Everlasting
The Opening of the Movie Tuck Everlasting Was Filmed at Hawksbill Crag in the Ozark Mountains
I love everything about Tuck Everlasting. I love the novel. I love the writing style of the novel. I love the magic that is captured in that novel, and beyond that, I love how Walt Disney transformed Babbit’s words into a movie version of that novel. For a few years, I lived in the Ozark…
Jacki Kellum Is Teaching Comp II: Writing about Literature at Northark College
I have started teaching at Northark College. I am teaching Comp II: Writing about literature. Northark College is a unique college–one that is a tribute to this entire region of the Ozark Mountains. Northark is a beautiful school. The above photo shows only a fraction of the campus, all of which is modern. Most of…
The Tuck Family Home in Tuck Everlasting – Home As Paradise
“It was amazing, then, to climb a long hill, to see ahead another hill, and beyond that the deep green of a scattered pine forest, and as you climbed, to feel the air ease and soften. Winnie revived, sniffing, and was able to ride the horse again, perched behind Mae. And to her oft-repeated question,…
Looking at Setting in Tuck Everlasting – Descriptive Writing and Setting
“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 first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets…
Winnie and the Wood in Tuck Everlasting
In Chapter 1 of Tuck Everlasting, we read that the Wood is the hub [of the wheel of life]. In this comment, Winnie is acknowledging the fact that Nature is of utmost importance in the book Tuck Everlasting. In Tuck, Nature is an important Theme. Nature as a Theme in Literature When Nature is a…
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
In my opinion, EVERY writer should read Ray Bradbury and Mark Twain. Those two guys seem to have born few resemblances. They lived in different periods of time and they wrote differently, but these two guys were alike in that they are masters of words, and if a writer is not a master of words,…
Jacki Kellum Looks at the Book Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
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 writes volumes–in the Prologue. Within a few words, Tuck Everlasting had become more than a mere spattering of words. Natalie Babbitt said the following…
Part of the Movie Tuck Everlasting Was Filmed in the Ozark Mountains
Hawk’s Bill Crag in the Ozark Mountains – A spot in the Ozark Mountains that is 38 miles from my house. Hawk’s Bill Crag is at Whitaker Point, and Whitaker Point is one of the most beautiful spots along the Buffalo River—America’s first national river. In fact, it has been called One of the Most…
Looking at Lit Book Club – A Jacki Kellum Free Online Book Club
I’m working on my lesson plans for my Comp 2 Class at Northark College: Writing about Literature, and I cannot exaggerate how very much re-reading some of the fine stories and books, poetry, and stories for that class has enriched me. I have decided to share some of the best literature from that class, as…