At the end of Chapter 5, Winnie and Jesse were tangling. She wanted to drink from the pool in the Wood, and Jesse did not want her to do that. Suddenly. she was whisled away:: “Afterward, when she thought about it, it seemed to Winnie that the next tew minutes were only a blur. First…
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Tuck Everlasting Chapter 2 – A Lesson in Creating Characters, Conflict, and Foreshadowing in Writing
Chapter 2 of Tuck Everlasting provides us with a beginning Character Study of Mae Tuck, as she 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…
The Long Autumn Nap but April Come, She Will — Surviving the Seasons of My Mind
Morning Has Broken — Again! This morning, as soon as I awoke, I could hear Cat Stevens singing inside me: “Morning has broken – Like the Frst Moning!” – Cat Stevens I painted the above image after a long nap — otherwise know as a creative block — I couldn’t paint — I couldn’t write,…
Bring Me Home – An Overarching Theme in Literature – in Jacki Kellum Looking at Lit Club
The search for a true home is a recurring theme in literature. In some cases, the protagonist leaves home, and discovers that the true home of his heart was the one he lor she left: That also happend in Where the Wild Things Are: “That very night in Max’s room a forest grew and grew…
Good Morning, August, from the Book Tuck Everlasting
Hawk’s Bill Crag in the Ozark Mountains In the above photo, you see a view of Hawk’s Bill Crag, which is in the Ozark Mountains. It is 38 miles from my house. While this is not the Alps, the Ozarks is a hilly-to-mountainous region, and in places, the terrain is downright steep. While Hawk’s Bill…