Treegap is based on a real place! We want to go to there. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide. By Natalie Babbitt. Previous Next. Setting Treegap Treegap, the Town We know right off the bat that this story which goes down in is going to take place in a quaint little area. Also right away, we know what we're supposed to focus on: So the road went humbly by and made its way, past cottages more and more frequent but less and less forbidding, into the village.
The Woods At first, the woods seem pretty normal. They sure looked normal to the Tucks when they arrived there for the first time, nearly ninety years before meeting Winnie: When they came to the part that was now the wood, and turned from the trail to find a camping place, they happened on the spring. That's a pretty stark contrast from all the natural imagery in the book: "Know what that is, all around us, Winnie? Is a House a Home? One is obsessively neat and tidy, the other is messy and full of life: Winnie had grown up with order.
What's Up With the Ending? Tired of ads? The strange man stood around for a moment and left with an eerily satisfied smile on his face. The next day a few things happened that at first were outwardly unrelated. Winnie runs away from home and heads deep into the Treegap forest. While somewhere two young boys, Jesse and Miles Tuck, head home to see their mom and dad that they only see every ten years. At the same time the strange man returns to her home and knocks on her house looking for her.
As Winnie continued running deeper into the Treegap forest her world collided with another. The boy sees her and at first he seemed alarmed, but he softened as they talked. Winnie learned that his name was Jesse Tuck and that he lived near by. She asked him how old he was and he told her and Winnie not believing him asked again. This time he said What happened next to Winnie, happened quickly. They look mortified to see Winnie by the spring water and quickly grabbed her.
They wrapped her in a blanket like a sack of potatoes. Then she was on a horse being moved by the boys and the women. They brought Winnie to their home in the woods and shared with her their story. The family seemingly normal, is forever frozen in time. As the world changes and grows, they do not change.
The spring water they drank from has given them immortality, the one Winnie found Jess at. They realized their immortally after several near death experiences. When Winnie takes Mae's place in jail, she receives a vial of the magical water to drink when she turns Instead, she chooses mortality. She doesn't find solace in immortality and wants to live a natural life.
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