History Literature / TuckEverlasting

* AgeLift: Winnie is ten years old in the book, but in the 2002 movie, she's in her mid teens. This is probably to make the romance between her and Jesse less [[Squick Squicky]] (she's still underaged though...).

* AgeLift: Winnie is ten years old in the book, but in the 2002 movie, she's in her mid teens.

* AdaptationExpansion: Some [[{{Filler}} padding]] is to be expected. The book isn't very long after all.

* UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar: Miles was a soldier in the recent movie

* UpgradedToLoveInterest: Winnie in the 2002 movie.

* MyBelovedSmother

* JailbaitWait: Jesse gave Winnie some of the water, intending for her to use it when she was of marriageable age. She gave the water to a toad instead.

* TheMagicGoesAway: In the DistantFinale, the immortality spring has been bulldozed over and destroyed.

* DidNotGetTheGirl: Winnie grows up and dies instead of becoming immortal with Jesse.

The story has been adapted into a film twice: in 1981 by Office of Communications and in 2002 by [[{{Disney}} Walt Disney Productions]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jesse returns to the tree after a hundred years have passed to see if Winnie had taken the water and was waiting for him, only to find her tombstone instead, placed beneath it. Reading it, he finds out that she had a long and happy life with a husband and children.]]

* AmericanCivilWar: Miles was a soldier in the recent movie

* MayflyDecemberRomance: Winnie (who is ten years old in the novel) wants to marry Jesse when she turns seventeen. In the movie, the changed her to be fifteen.

* TheMenInBlack: The man in the yellow suit

* NoNameGiven: The Man in the Yellow Suit

* HeyItsThatGuy In the 2002 film:
** [[AlexisBledel Winnie]] is [[GilmoreGirls Rory Gilmore]]; and her love interest Jesse is [[GeneralHospital Lucky Spencer]]!
** Mae Tuck was a [[{{Literature/Carrie}} girl with telekinetic powers]] who had a bucket of pig's blood dropped on her...

* FountainOfYouth: The Spring that the Tucks get their immortality from is essentially this.
** It is of course sought by the [[ImmortalitySeeker The Man in the Yellow Suit]]

In the late 1800's, Winnie Foster's life is boring. Nothing exciting ever happens, and being in a family of strait-laced {{blue blood}}s has cramped her style. She goes out exploring in the woods one day and meets the Tucks. The Tucks became immortal after drinking water from a spring. She is fascinated by Jesse Tuck, a boy who's really [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 104 years old]]. The family shares with her the secrets of the spring. However, a man in a yellow suit is also after the secret behind the Tucks' immortality. The Tucks are threatened by the man in a yellow suit until they are in grave danger. Winnie must choose whether to live forever, and find how to save the Tucks.

* NoNameGiven[=/=]EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Man in the Yellow Suit

* [[VictorianBritain Victorian America]][=/=]TheEdwardianEra

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jesse returns to the tree after a hundred years have passed to see if Winnie had drunk from the water and is waiting for him, only to find her tombstone instead, placed beneath it. Reading it, he finds out that she had a long and happy life with a husband and children.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jesse returns to the tree after a hundred years have passed to see if Winnie had drunk from the water and was waiting for him, only to find her tombstone instead, placed beneath it. Reading it, he finds out that she had a long and happy life with a husband and children.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jesse returns to the tree after a hundred years have passed to see if Winnie had drunk from the water and was waiting for him, only to find her tombstone instead, placed beneath it. Reading it, he finds out that she had a long and happy life with marriage and children.]]

''TuckEverlasting'' is a 1975 {{fantasy}} novel exploring {{immortality}} and [[WhoWantsToLiveForever whether it's worth it.]]

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