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"The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses it turning."
- Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting, Prologue
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"The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses it turning."
- Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting, Prologue
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The time of year is an important feature of the setting in Tuck Everlasting. The prologue, or
introduction, to the novel states that the month is August, and the first paragraph opens with a
striking summer image. The author describes a Ferris wheel pausing in its turning, with the top
seat hanging in the stillness. This image helps to set the mood, or atmosphere, of the particular
August when the novel takes place. Notice that the author describes the first week of August as
“motionless, and hot” and August as “the top of the year.” Her description suggests that the year
is at a turning point.
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