Tuck Everlasting

Novel by Natalie Babbitt and Movie Director by Jay Russell

Comparison between Novel and Movie

Novel	Movie
1. Winnie pours the spring water to toad	1. Winnie doesn’t pour the water spring
2. Winnie is 10 years old	2. Winnie is 15 years old
3. Only Mae who is taken to the jail	3. Mae and Angus who are taken to the jail
4. No dancing	4. Jesse and Mae are dancing
5. Jesse gives Winnie a bottle of water spring	5. Jesse doesn’t give Winnie a bottle of water spring
6. Jesse doesn’t ask Winnie to clime the Eifel tower	6. Jesse asks Winnie to clime the Eifel tower
7. The man in yellow coat	7. The man in yellow suit

When I read the novel, I am anxious to image the continuance of Tuck’s family with living forever from time to time. Live without death, sick or hurt. I think it feels emptiness. No challenge in the life. In fact, living forever doesn’t happen on our real life. If there is water spring to become us living forever, I will think of a million times to drink the water spring, because I don’t want to be a man lasting with life emptiness and so many sins to do along the life.

Most of creative literatures, like novel or movie. I think it is designed to sharpen our imagination in order to be able to create new creative literature. However, writing creative literatures such as novel, comic, and other writings. They are more imaginative than we watch the movie. Therefore, Novel to movie is more interesting than movie to novel. If novel is made from movie, the watchers won’t be anxious to read the novel, because the watchers have knew the contain of the story. On the contrary, if movie is made from the novel, we will be anxious to watch the movie, because we can compare our imagination when we read the novel and watch movie.

Ismatul Luthfi (0607839)
non-dik B 2006