The Tucks have lived for over a hundred years after drinking from a stream that gave them eternal life. This argument is presented in the book/movie Tuck Everlasting. After a point, extended life is no longer a beneficial thing if all other important aspects of life are absent. For these reasons we can wonder not only how beneficial these actions are, but also when should we plan to stop technology advancements. These actions can prolong life, but they also commonly leave patients in a state of non-life, non-death comas, forms of social death after living longer than family and peers, and failed organ transplants. It is used to keep our heart pumping when the heart has stopped doing so on its own, to keep us breathing, and to replace body parts that can no longer perform correctly. However, are we raising quality of life as well, or just delaying the inevitable processes of nature? As we age and become more feeble and sickly, technology that preserves our lives becomes more increasingly present. In America, we see this triumph over death as a great accomplishment and therefore strive to keep increasing the length of life. Many of our recent readings have dealt with the advancement of medicine and technology and how it has affected the length of life. Ultimately it reminds us that we don’t have to live forever, we just have to live. Thus, ritual becomes a symbol of cyclical life itself.Īlthough, Tuck Everlasting (2002) may be underlined by cheesy romanticism, cliché aphorisms, or hokey mottos, it is an honest film. Humans are designed to feel emotion and express it, and death rituals serve this process. Not only is ritual a way for mourners to remove themselves from social order and expectations, but their removal from society is as natural as life. This must have been the realization that kept her from drinking the immortal water.Īlthough this is not emphasized, we see the importance of ritual in the funeral scene and in the scene where Mrs. Her realization is two-fold: Dying is natural and unlike Miles, she and her mother will eventually pass too. Winnie watches her grandmother be buried and she sees her mother crying. To further illustrate is the scene of Winnie’s grandmother’s funeral. Death is natural and it must occur in order to have lived. It’s as if his life is one long sentence without a period, forever expanding but never finding closure. His immortality obstructs his death, and he becomes a “rock stuck at the side of the stream”. For example, Miles Tuck lives in regret and bitterness, wishing he could have died with his family. At the words of Winnie, the film suggests that living fully involves doing everything you can and what you want at a slow pace.Įven so, the main point to take home is that living also involves dying dying oneself and experiencing death of a loved one. Nevertheless, the film poses a scarier thought: the unlived life. Commonly people might say that they are scared because they don’t know what is behind the black veil or of leaving the earth unaccomplished. Tuck Everlasting (2002) presents a dualism of fear: fear of death or fear of an unlived life. Finally we see how ritual is as natural as the life cycle itself. Simultaneously, the movie ceaselessly challenges and redefines the definition of a lived life. Apart from exploring themes of immortality, life, and death, Tuck Everlasting presents dualism of fear. Winnie runs into the woods out of her life of frustration and boredom to discover the Tuck family, who drank from a magic spring and became immortal. The story focuses on Winifred Foster, a fifteen-year-old girl from a wealthy family and strict household. What is it people want most at the end of their lives? Is it peace? Or more time? I just watched Disney’s Tuck Everlasting (2002), based on the children’s fantasy novel published in 1975 by Natalie Babbitt.
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