Compare And Contrast Tuck Everlasting

Tuck Everlasting

Some people have difficulty deciding which is better: the book or the film. Natalie Babbitt wrote the story Tuck Everlasting and Disney made a version of Tuck Everlasting. Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting is a book about a 10 year old girl, Winnie Foster, who meets a family, the Tuck’s, who are immortal. They have some happy and sad experiences with each other. I believe that Natalie Babbitt’s text Tuck Everlasting is better than Disney’s film Tuck Everlasting because it puts more suspense, it has a better characterization basis, and it puts greater imagery into your mind.

Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting has more suspense than Disney’s movie Tuck Everlasting such as when the man in the yellow suit shot Jesse. It was in the only in the movie and it was quite cliché. Also, when Mae hit the man in the yellow suit with the back of a gun. In the book, when the man

An example of this is the description of the forest. In the movie, it sounds beautiful and full of life. But in the movie, it sounds overgrown and not as pleasant. Another example of this is the lake by the Tuck’s house. In the book it seems to have more movement and goes better with Angus’s analogy for life, “It’s a wheel, Winnie. Everything’s a wheel, turning and, never stopping” (62) and, “It goes on to the ocean. But this rowboat now, it’s stuck. If we didn’t move it out ourself, it would stay here forever, trying to get loose, but stuck. That’s what us Tuck’s are, Winnie. Stuck so’s we can’t move on. We ain’t part of the wheel no more. Dropped off, Winnie. Left behind. And everywhere around us, things is moving and growing and changing.” (63). And finally, the County Jail. The book makes it seem secluded and in the middle of nowhere. But the film makes it in the middle of a town so everyone can see. That is why the book Tuck Everlasting has better imagery than Disney’s film Tuck