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Tuck Everlasting Plot Questions

Hi everyone!

I know the show has been closed for a couple of weeks now, but I have been thinking about the story and have a couple of plot points of which I would love to see if I can make more sense. I haven't read the book, so forgive me if either of these are addressed there. Spoilers! (I guess?)

1. Winnie runs away from home into her wood, and then she sees Jesse Tuck drink from the spring. That's how they meet. But why does Jesse even need to be in the wood, and more specifically drinking from the spring, in the first place? He drank the water once and it turned him immortal, it's not like he has to keep drinking it in order for it to keep him that way. (Unless I misunderstood)

2. So the Man in the Yellow Suit stops by the Foster's house early in the show, guesses Winnie's age, makes some desperate comments about wanting to live forever, talks to Granny and the Mother, and then runs off. At the fair, Constable Joe and Hugo are asking if anyone has seen a little girl, but they do not ask the Man in the Yellow Suit. After the Man in the Yellow Suit realizes that she and Jesse are together and that Jesse is immortal, he runs after them and follows them to the silo and listens to the conversation about the water . Act 2 opens with him singing how rich he could become, a song which ends with him knocking on the Foster's home and saying to the mother "I know where your daughter is." My question is- how does he even know that Winnie is missing? He saw her with her family, and then with Jesse at the fair, but you don't see him hear anything about her running away.

Thanks in advance!

Updated On: 6/15/16 at 06:34 PM

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Tuck Everlasting Plot Questions

1. To the best of my recollection, Jesse was going to meet his family there to start off one of their periodic reunions. Drinking from the stream is part of a 'tradition', he doesn't need to drink to stay immortal, but for the plot purposes.

2. The Man in Yellow is a seasoned con-man and he is used to observing and taking in everything for his own gain; it wasn't hard for him to put two-and-two together. He was in Tree Gap for the purpose of finding the spring, and he was listening and watching everyone and everything. Again, this is all needed for plot and it can be nitpicked.

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