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Miles' wife and children had come to live with his family when he was a boy and he heard rumors of their secret. He intensified his search within the previous six months. He then informs the angry family that he told the Fosters where Winnie was and that he has received a bounty in exchange for her safe return: The man in the yellow suit then further angers the Tucks when he tells them that he plans to gather the water from the spring and sell it to the public. When they angrily refuse his offer to be partners in the venture because they desire privacy over the money, he then declares he does not need their permission to sell the water and begins to take Winnie away.
He tells the Tucks that if they will not be his examples, then she will. He says that a child would be a better example, and there is nothing they can do. Mae, in a last-ditch effort to put an end to the confrontation, grabs her husband's shotgun by the barrel and threatens the man in the yellow suit with it. The man in the yellow suit tries to escape, while Miles tries to stop his mother from attacking the man.
Just as the constable rides up to the farm, Mae whips the gun around so hard that its stock strikes the man in the yellow suit in the back of the head, with enough force to fracture his skull on impact.
Mae is arrested while the man in the yellow suit is carried inside the farmhouse, and when the blow later proves fatal she is condemned to the gallows and scheduled for execution the next morning. Angus, Miles, and Jesse realize that their secret will be revealed once Mae is hanged, due to the fact that people will understand the secret when Mae does not die from the hanging, so they take Winnie with them and go to the jail and spring her from her cell. Then Winnie takes her place so the Tucks can safely get away. Although they are reunited, there is no more reason for them to be in Treegap, as Mae is now a fugitive from justice.
Before departing, Jesse gives Winnie a bottle of the special water so she might drink it when she turns 17 and follow them and marry him. She gives it consideration but decides not to and pours it onto a toad because she thinks that if she changes her mind then she can go to the spring to get more. Many years later, Mae and Angus return to Treegap and find that it has changed a great deal — the wooded area is gone and so is their spring; the town has become a typical suburban metropolis.
While there, they happen to visit a cemetery where they discover what happened to Winnie: Though Angus Tuck is saddened by this, he also praises Winnie for choosing not to drink the water. They come across a toad near her grave but they are unaware that it is the same one that she had poured water on years before. Tuck Everlasting has received awards including the Janusz Korczak Medal and the Christopher Award as best book for young people.
The novel has twice been adapted to film, and a musical. The first was released in and distributed by One Pass Media. It was originally scheduled for a pre-Broadway run at Boston's Colonial Theatre , in June , but plans were abandoned due to a lack of theatre availability in New York. Sarah Charles Lewis played Winnie.
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Tuck Everlasting is an American children's novel written by Natalie Babbitt and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in It explores the concept of. Tuck Everlasting is a romantic fantasy drama film based on Natalie Babbitt's children's book of the same name. The Walt Disney Pictures release was.
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