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The book does show that they're immortal, since Angus and Mae are still alive in the epilogue, ~70 years later


* AdaptationExpansion: Some {{filler}} is to be expected, as the book isn't very long. Also, the immortality is only claimed in the book, with no real evidence in the actual story to confirm it. The 2002 movie shows fully that the claims were true: Jesse gets shot but is otherwise [[NoSell undeterred]]. A literal WhamShot.

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* AdaptationExpansion: Some {{filler}} is to be expected, as the book isn't very long. Also, the immortality invincibility is only claimed discussed in the book, with no real evidence without being shown in the actual story to confirm it. story. The 2002 movie shows fully that the claims were true: it directly: Jesse gets shot but is otherwise [[NoSell undeterred]]. A literal WhamShot.
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* MagicalRealism: The only fantastic element in the story is the spring, which itself is never really explained.

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* MagicalRealism: The only fantastic element in the story is the spring, which itself is never really explained. The Tucks briefly speculate that it was probably from [[invoked]][[TheArtifact an earlier plan for the world which didn't quite work out]], but its possible origins aren't brought up again.
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* InconspicuousImmortal: The Tuck family unknowingly drank from an {{Immortality Induc|er}}ing spring, then settled into their home in the woods to live quietly and avoid attention. They have [[WhoWantsToLiveForever mixed]] [[LivingForeverIsNoBigDeal feelings]] about their immortality and don't want the secret to get out.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: The Man in the Yellow Suit is portrayed as a far more insidious and intelligent character in the 2002 film, with his obsession with the Tucks and the spring of immortality being more of an ideological pursuit in addition to a profit-making venture, and he has very predatory vibes towards Winnie in particular. In the books and 1981 film, he's more of a crooked businessman who wears a MaskOfSanity to conceal his psychotic nature and ruthlessness in what he's willing to do to obtain what he wants.
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** In the movie, [[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. Jesse looks to the sky with a wistful smile.
** [[spoiler:In the book, Winnie is buried in the Treegap graveyard and Mae and Angus Tuck are the ones who find her headstone. They comment that Jesse's heart will be broken, and observe how the town has changed.]]

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** In the movie, [[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. Jesse looks to the sky with a wistful smile.
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** [[spoiler:In In the book, Winnie [[spoiler:Winnie is buried in the Treegap graveyard and Mae and Angus Tuck are the ones who find her headstone. They comment that Jesse's heart will be broken, and observe how the town has changed.]]
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* TookALevelInKindness: Mrs. Foster softens up in the 2002 film adaptation over the course of the movie. She plays piano while her daughter is missing, takes in the Man With The Yellow Suit when Mae knocks him down, and .

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* TookALevelInKindness: Mrs. Foster softens up in the 2002 film adaptation over the course of the movie. She plays piano while her daughter is missing, takes in the Man With The Yellow Suit when Mae knocks him down, and .down and hears Winnie out when the latter explains that the Man was trying to hold her hostage at gunpoint.

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* BittersweetEnding: In the movie, [[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. Jesse looks to the sky with a wistful smile. In the book Winnie is buried in the Treegap graveyard and Mae and Angus Tuck are the ones who find her headstone.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: BittersweetEnding:
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In the movie, [[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. Jesse looks to the sky with a wistful smile. In smile.
** [[spoiler:In
the book book, Winnie is buried in the Treegap graveyard and Mae and Angus Tuck are the ones who find her headstone.headstone. They comment that Jesse's heart will be broken, and observe how the town has changed.]]



* DueToTheDead: In both the book and the movie, [[spoiler:the Tucks go to Winnie's grave and pay their respects to her. Jesse gives a wistful smile as he sits by her tombstone, while the Tucks stay for a few minutes and leave]].



* LivingForeverIsAwesome: The Tucks make the most out of their unwanted immortality. They're not happy about it, but why be miserable over something you can't control? While Angus and Mae safeguard the woods, their sons travel the world, exploring new technology, and bringing back souvenirs. In the present day in the film, Jesse has learned to ride a motorcycle and dress appropriately.



* MyBelovedSmother: Mrs. Foster.

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* MyBelovedSmother: Mrs. Foster.Foster is an example of this, trying to force Winnie to be ladylike and refined.



* SadisticChoice: Die of old age and never get together with the boy you love, and aim for a fulfilling life, or drink the water that will stop your aging and resign yourself to outliving everyone else in your family and friend circle? Jesse makes it clear in the book and movie that it has to be Winnie's choice: he won't force her one way or the other, since his family didn't know any better when they drank the water. [[spoiler:Winnie chooses to live; she marries someone else, has children, and lives a fulfilling life based on her tombstone's epitaph]].



* TookALevelInKindness: Mrs. Foster softens up in the 2002 film adaptation.

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* TookALevelInKindness: Mrs. Foster softens up in the 2002 film adaptation.adaptation over the course of the movie. She plays piano while her daughter is missing, takes in the Man With The Yellow Suit when Mae knocks him down, and .


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* WhamLine: When Jesse explains the full nature of his immortality: "I've been seventeen for 107 years." He reveals that he wasn't joking, and Miles follows up by revealing his sad backstory.
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* BrickJoke: The Toad.
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* UptownGirl: Winnie hails from a rich family, but she makes friends with the Tucks and the 2002 gives her and Jesse an interclass romance.

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* UptownGirl: Winnie hails from a rich family, but she makes friends with the Tucks and the 2002 movie gives her and Jesse an interclass romance.
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* IJustWantToBeFree: Winnie’s main reason for running away.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Mrs. Foster softens up in the 2002 film adaptation.
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* AnAesop: You Only Live Once.
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* LonelyRichKid: Winnie.
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* RebelliousPrincess / SpiritedYoungLady: Winnie longs for a life outside her gates and her upper class lifestyle and learns to become a somewhat modern woman after her escapade with the Tuck family. The 2002 film takes this up by a greater degree. Said film also shows her trying her hand at playing baseball with a group of boys.
* TheRunaway: Winnie, tired of the stifling environment around her, runs off into the forest where she meets the Tucks.


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* UptownGirl: Winnie hails from a rich family, but she makes friends with the Tucks and the 2002 gives her and Jesse an interclass romance.

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* BittersweetSeventeen: Jesse Tuck is seventeen forever, and is carefree and adventurous... but the fact is, he's still a child who can ''never'' grow up, never achieve adulthood and never truly integrate with society because of his secret. He says his immortality is a blessing, but it's very clear he's BlessedWithSuck.



* ExtremelyShortTimeSpan: The bulk of the novel covers just over two days.



* TheKindnapper: The Tucks ''do'' kidnap Winnie (even they admit it), but they did so in a panic when she learns their secret, and they mean no harm and fully intend on bringing her home the next day, once they've had time to explain everything and get her promise not to tell.
* MagicalRealism: The only fantastic element in the story is the spring, which itself is never really explained.



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

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* MayflyDecemberRomance: Winnie (who is ten years old in the novel) wants to marry Jesse when she turns seventeen. In (In the movie, they changed her to be fifteen.) He's also on board with the idea. [[spoiler:But it doesn't come to pass, and she dies as an old woman, while he's still seventeen.]]



* PromotedToLoveInterest: Winnie in the 2002 movie.

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* PromotedToLoveInterest: Winnie and Jesse in the 2002 movie.movie, sort of. In the book, she has a crush on him and he suggests they marry when she's old enough, but nothing ever happens during the story since she's only ten. The movie ages her up, and they share a kiss.
* SarcasticConfession: When Winnie first meets Jesse, she asks how old he is. He tells her the truth, and she asks him to be serious.

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* 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 Squicky. (she's still underaged though...).

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* 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 Squicky. squicky (she's still underaged though...).underaged, though at least they do nothing more than kiss).



* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Mild example. Winnie wishes to get away from her family. Then she's kidnapped. [[StockholmSyndrome But the experience turns out to be not so bad after all]].

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Mild BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
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example. Winnie wishes to get away from her family. Then she's kidnapped. [[StockholmSyndrome But the experience turns out to be not so bad after all]].



* TheFilmOfTheBook: There are two different adaptations.

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* TheFilmOfTheBook: There are two different adaptations.adaptations, in 1981 and 2002.



* MamaBear: Mae's usually very sweet, but she [[spoiler:kills The Man in the Yellow Suit]] to protect her family. Not to mention kidnapping Winnie for the same reason, to avoid getting her caught up with the Man in the Yellow Suit.

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* MamaBear: MamaBear:
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Mae's usually very sweet, but she [[spoiler:kills The Man in the Yellow Suit]] to protect her family. Not to mention kidnapping Winnie for the same reason, to avoid getting her caught up with the Man in the Yellow Suit.
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* AdaptationalIntelligence: In the book, Winnie tells Jesse to put her in Mae's place in the jail cell so that the sheriff won't get suspicious until the morning. This leads to her getting grounded for a long time by her family. In the film, Winnie goes to the sheriff screaming that the Tucks are coming after her and trying to kill her, so he'll go out and deal with the sons while she goes to free Angus and Mae. The sheriff runs away when he sees that Jesse and Miles are bulletproof, which means it's more plausible that the sons freed their mother and Winnie gets off scot-free.


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* AndThenWhat: Jesse begs Winnie to run away with him and the Tucks when she frees his parents from jail and they prepare to leave. Angus vetoes the idea, telling Jesse that if they do that, they'll get caught again since Winnie's family would be searching for them. Winnie agrees to stay behind, and Jesse tells her to drink the water when she's ready to be immortal.
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Not magic realism since the Tucks are not treated as normal and there's a lot of discussion about the spring, even if they don't know why it does what it does


* MagicRealism: Other than the spring, there's nothing unrealistic in the book, and the reason the spring water does what it does is never explained.
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** There's also the obvious one about desiring immortality. The Tucks take care to see that Winnie understands how staying young forever isn't as great as it sounds.
* BittersweetEnding: In the movie, [[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. Jesse looks to the sky with a wistful smile. In the book Winnie is buried in the Treegap graveyard and Tuck is the one who finds her headstone.]]

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** There's also the obvious one about desiring immortality. The Tucks take care to see that Winnie understands how staying young forever isn't as great as it sounds.
sounds with the troubles and pain that come with immortality physically and emotionally.
* BittersweetEnding: In the movie, [[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. Jesse looks to the sky with a wistful smile. In the book Winnie is buried in the Treegap graveyard and Mae and Angus Tuck is are the one ones who finds find her headstone.]]



* TheJailBaitWait: 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, in the book. In the film, she always had access to the spring and considered drinking it, but never did as she aged and got married.

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* TheJailBaitWait: 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, or a turtle instead in the book.book and the 1981 film adaptation. In the film, she always had access to the spring and considered drinking it, but never did as she aged and got married.



* MamaBear: Mae's usually very sweet, but she [[spoiler:kills The Man in the Yellow Suit]] to protect her family. Not to mention kidnapping Winnie for the same reason.

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* MamaBear: Mae's usually very sweet, but she [[spoiler:kills The Man in the Yellow Suit]] to protect her family. Not to mention kidnapping Winnie for the same reason.reason, to avoid getting her caught up with the Man in the Yellow Suit.



* WhoWantsToLiveForever: This is a major theme.

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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: This is a major theme. Angus Tuck in particular dislikes his immortality and [[spoiler:despite being sad over Winnie's passing, praises her in the book for choosing to not drink the water and live a normal life.]]

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



* AdaptationExpansion: Some [[{{Filler}} padding]] is to be expected. The book isn't very long after all. Also, the immortality is only claimed in the book, with no real evidence in the actual story to confirm it. The 2002 movie shows fully that the claims were true: Jesse gets shot but is otherwise [[NoSell undeterred]]. A literal WhamShot.

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* AdaptationExpansion: Some [[{{Filler}} padding]] {{filler}} is to be expected. The expected, as the book isn't very long after all.long. Also, the immortality is only claimed in the book, with no real evidence in the actual story to confirm it. The 2002 movie shows fully that the claims were true: Jesse gets shot but is otherwise [[NoSell undeterred]]. A literal WhamShot.



* UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar: Miles was a soldier in the 2002 movie



* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:In the movie 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. Jesse looks to the sky with a wistful smile. In the book Winnie is buried in the Treegap graveyard and Tuck is the one who finds her headstone.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:In In the movie Jesse movie, [[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. Jesse looks to the sky with a wistful smile. In the book Winnie is buried in the Treegap graveyard and Tuck is the one who finds her headstone.]]



* CantGrowUp: Obviously.

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* CantGrowUp: Obviously.The Tucks, obviously.



* [[EvilDetectingDog Evil Detecting Cows]]: The first chapter of the book has the cows sensing something very wrong with the forest itself and quickly going around it.

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* [[EvilDetectingDog Evil Detecting Cows]]: EvilDetectingDog: The first chapter of the book has the cows sensing something very wrong with the forest itself and quickly going around it.



* MamaBear: Mae's usually very sweet, but she [[spoiler: kills The Man in the Yellow Suit]] to protect her family. Not to mention kidnapping Winnie for the same reason.

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* MamaBear: Mae's usually very sweet, but she [[spoiler: kills [[spoiler:kills The Man in the Yellow Suit]] to protect her family. Not to mention kidnapping Winnie for the same reason.



* PistolWhipping: [[spoiler: Mae Tuck smacks The Man in the Yellow Suit with a shotgun, fracturing his skull.]]

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* PistolWhipping: [[spoiler: Mae [[spoiler:Mae Tuck smacks The Man in the Yellow Suit with a shotgun, fracturing his skull.]]

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* AdultFear:
** Winnie runs away and goes missing for days. Her family is understandably frantic.
** Miles describes how he outlived his children, and his wife. Immortality aside, parents and spouses have faced this fear. In the film, it's worse; his daughter died when she was a teen, and his wife was committed to an asylum.



* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:In the movie 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. In the book Winnie is buried in the Treegap graveyard and Tuck is the one who finds her headstone.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:In the movie 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. Jesse looks to the sky with a wistful smile. In the book Winnie is buried in the Treegap graveyard and Tuck is the one who finds her headstone.]]



* TheJailBaitWait: 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.

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* TheJailBaitWait: 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.
instead, in the book. In the film, she always had access to the spring and considered drinking it, but never did as she aged and got married.
* TheMagicGoesAway: In the DistantFinale, DistantFinale of the book, the immortality spring has been bulldozed over and destroyed.destroyed. Averted in the film, where Jesse sees her buried in the woods.


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* VillainBall: The Man in the Yellow Suit when [[spoiler:he takes Winnie hostage on seeing that the Tucks won't willingly show him where the spring is or volunteer to be a part of his "freak show". He loudly tells them he's going to use Winnie, the girl he was supposed to rescue, as his guinea pig, seconds before the sheriff arrives and follows him. If Mae hadn't hit him with a shotgun, then the sheriff would have seen the Man's true character.]]
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* MyBelovedSmother: Mrs. Foster

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* MyBelovedSmother: Mrs. FosterFoster.



* OfCorsetHurts: In the movie Winnie is forced to wear a corset. Her mother tells her "You must suffer to be beautiful, so say the French", to which Winnie replies "Well the French are crazy!". When Winnie is staying with the Tucks, Ma helps her remove the corset, commenting on how she can't understand why women torture themselves with them. The Tucks teach her how to live a very natural and easy lifestyle.

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* OfCorsetHurts: In the movie movie, Winnie is forced to wear a corset. Her mother tells her "You must suffer to be beautiful, so say the French", to which Winnie replies "Well replies, "Well, the French are crazy!". When Winnie is staying with the Tucks, Ma Mae helps her remove the corset, commenting on how she can't understand why women torture themselves with them. The Tucks teach her how to live a very natural and easy lifestyle.
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[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tuck_everlasting2_1024x1024.jpg]]''Tuck Everlasting'' is a 1975 {{fantasy}} novel exploring {{immortality}} and [[WhoWantsToLiveForever whether it's worth it.]]

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[[quoteright:250:https://static.[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tuck_everlasting2_1024x1024.jpg]]''Tuck Everlasting'' is a 1975 {{fantasy}} novel exploring {{immortality}} and [[WhoWantsToLiveForever whether it's worth it.]]
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tuck_everlasting2_1024x1024.jpg]]''Tuck Everlasting'' is a 1975 {{fantasy}} novel exploring {{immortality}} and [[WhoWantsToLiveForever whether it's worth it.]]

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[[quoteright:350:https://static.[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tuck_everlasting2_1024x1024.jpg]]''Tuck Everlasting'' is a 1975 {{fantasy}} novel exploring {{immortality}} and [[WhoWantsToLiveForever whether it's worth it.]]
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''Tuck Everlasting'' is a 1975 {{fantasy}} novel exploring {{immortality}} and [[WhoWantsToLiveForever whether it's worth it.]]

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''Tuck [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tuck_everlasting2_1024x1024.jpg]]''Tuck Everlasting'' is a 1975 {{fantasy}} novel exploring {{immortality}} and [[WhoWantsToLiveForever whether it's worth it.]]
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* TheMenInBlack: The man in the yellow suit.

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* TheMenInBlack: The man in the Well, yellow suit.in this case.
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* BlessedWithSuck: The Tucks cannot age, and cannot be killed by any means. This unfortunately has led them to become isolated from the world around them, with Miles watching his own family walk out on him when his wife believes him to be possessed. They will literally spend eternity watching every generation grow old and die, unable to make love or to have any part in society knowing what the consequences would be. As such, they are determined that nobody ever finds the spring that has made them this way.
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* TheMourningAfter: In the Disney film, Miles still wears his wedding ring, despite years having passed since his wife and children died.
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The story has been adapted into a film twice: in 1981 by Office of Communications and in 2002 by [[Creator/{{Disney}} Walt Disney Productions]].

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The story has been adapted into a film twice: in 1981 by Office of Communications and in 2002 by [[Creator/{{Disney}} Walt Disney Productions]]. A [[TheMusical musical adaptation]] was produced in 2013, and premiered on Broadway in 2015.
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* 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 Squicky.(she's still underaged though...).

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* 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 Squicky. (she's still underaged though...).

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