Tuck Everlasting explores the theme of death, and why it is essential to life. There are few surprises here. The rules of existence revolve around two poles: life and death are two sides of our world. Without death life has no meaning, and eternal life is a nightmare. Without change and transformation, and the end which caps our individual life, existence is unnatural.
I enjoyed how softly the author provides an explanation for the ability of the characters to never die. The fountain of water the characters drink, we are told, is “something left over… from some other plan for the way the world should be.”
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