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"And anyway, for the people, there was another reason to leave the wood to itself: it belonged to the Fosters, the owners of the touch-me-not cottage, and was therefore private property in spite of the fact that it lay outside the fence and was perfectly accessible." page 7

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In spite of the fact that is a phrase used to introduce a contrasting idea, indicating something happens even though there might be an obstacle. A synonym to that is: "Despite the fact that..."

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Meadow

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"On the left stood the first house, a square and solid cottage with a touch-me-not appearance, surrounded by grass cut painfully to the quick and enclosed by a capable iron fence some four feet high which clearly said, "Move on - we don't want you here."

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Babbitt says she was inspired to write the book after a conversation she had with her young daughter. "One day she had trouble sleeping, woke up crying from a nap. And we looked into it together, as well as you can with a 4-year-old, and she was very scared with the idea of dying. And it seemed to me that that was the kind of thing you could be scared of for the rest of your life. And so I wanted to make sure that she would understand what it was more. And it seemed to me that I could write a story about how it's something that everybody has to do and it's not a bad thing."

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While a prologue comes before the first chapter of a book, the epilogue comes after the last chapter. They are mirror images of each other. A prologue details necessary information the reader needs before the action of the story has begun. Likewise, the epilogue details new information the reader needs about future events to fully understand the story's message or moral.

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The first week of August hangs at the top of summer, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses. The first week of August was montionless, and hot. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after.

One day at that time, not so very long ago, three things happened and at first there appeared to be no connection between them.

At dawn, Mae Tuck set out on her horse for the wood at the edge of the village of Treegap. She was going there, as she did once every ten years, to meet her two sons, Miles and Jesse.

At noontime, Winnie Foster, whose family owned the Treegap wood, lost her patience and decided to think about running away.

And at sunset a stranger appeared at the Fosters' gate. He was looking for someone, but he didn't say who.

No connection, but things can come together in strange ways. The wood was at the center, the hub of the wheel. All wheels have a hub, a Ferris Wheel has one. Fixed points they are, and best left undisturbed, for without them, nothing holds together. But sometimes people find this out too late.

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There was a road that led to Treegap. It was made by the cows. The road had curves and cut sidewise across a meadow. It came at last to the wood and passed around it. On the other side of the wood, by the left, there was a house enclosed by a fence. There was something strange about the woods. The house and the woods belonged to the Fosters' family. There was a girl, Winnie, the only child of the house. She has never been to the woods. There was a giant ash tree at the center of the wood and a little spring bubbling up among its roots.

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Mae Tuck wakes up and says "The boys'll be home tomorrow!". Mae's husband is beside her, still asleep, smiled. He almost never smiled. Mae was a great potato of a woman with a round, sensible face and calm brown eyes. Mae couldn't wait to see her sons. She climbed out of bed and dressed up. She took from the washstand beside the bed a little square-shaped object, a music box painted with roses and lilies of the valley. She put it into her pocket, put on a straw hat, took her horse and left for the woods to meet her sons.

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"Mae Tuck climbed out of bed and began to dress: three petticoats, a rusty brown skirt with one enourmous pocket, and old jacket, and a knitted shawl which she pinned across her bosom with a tarnished metal brooch."

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"Winnie had found some pebbles at the base of the fence and, for lack of any other way to show how she felt, had flung one at the toad. It missed altogether, as she'd fully intended it should, but she made a game of it anyway, tossing pebbles at such an angle that they passed through the gnat cloud on their way to the toad."

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At noon of the same day, Winnie Foster sat on the grass inside the fence and talked to a large toad. She said "I don't think I can stand it much longer". Her grandmother piped "Winifred! Don't sit on that dirty grass. You'll stain your boots and stockings." Her mother added "Come in now, Winnie. Right away. You'll get heat stroke out there on a day like this. And your lunch is ready." Winnie was tired of being looked at all the time. Winnie looked at the toad and promissed that she would run away, maybe first thing the next morning. And after saying that she was called again and went inside the house.

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"It was the only living thing in sight (refering to the frog) except for a stationary cloud of hysterical gnats suspended in the heat above the road."

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"We went on into what was left of the wood to make a camp, and when we got to the clearing and the tree and the spring, we remembered it from before."

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At sunset of that same long day, a stranger wearing a yellow suit paused at the Fosters' gate. Winnie was catching fireflies. The man started talking to Winnie. She thougth he was friendly. He said that he was looking for a family. Winnie said "I don't know anybody much, but my father might. You could ask him." Winnie's grandmother appeared and asked "Winnie, who are you talking to? The grandmother was about to go back inside the house when they heard a surprising wisp of music coming from the wood. The grandmother said "Did you hear that, Winifred? That's it? That's the elf music I told you about. Why it's been ages since I heard it last.". They heard it once more and went inside the house. The man in the yellow suit stood there. His expression was one of intense satisfaction.

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Winnie woke up early next morning. She decided not to run away. She remembered the toad: "What if he should laugh at me thinking I am a coward?" She decided to go into the wood. The wood was full of light, little flowers, white and blue, tangled vines, green-velvet moss. There were creatures everywhere: beetles, birds, squirrels, ants, and the toad. Then up ahead, something moved. There was an enourmous tree, thick roots. Sitting relaxed with his back against the trunk was a boy, almost a man. He was thin, sunburned, curly brown hair and he wore battered trousers and loose grubby shirt, and a pair of green suspenders. He was shoeless. He turned to a little pile of pebbles next to him. He lifted a final stone and Winnie saw a spurt of water, like a fountain, into the ground.

For a long moment they looked at each other. The boy asked "What are you doing here?" and Winnie replied "It's my wood". Winnie asked his name, age and if he was married. He was Jesse Tuck, 104 years old or 17. He laughed and said he was not married. Winnie was thirsty and wanted to drink some water from the fountain. Jesse said that she couldn't drink. She insisted. But at this time, Mae and Miles arrived, leading a horse.

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The Tucks took Winnie on their horse and kidnapped her. Mae said "Please, child, dear, don't you be scared. We wouldn't harm you for the world." Miles said "We'll explain it soon as we're far enough." Winnie was speechless. Standing on the road, they saw the man in the yellow suit. Winnie didn't do anything. They stopped by a stream and Winnie started to cry. Mae reached her music box and gave it to Winnie. It was the same music she had heard the night before. Jesse then said "Look Winnie, we are friends, but you got to help us. We will tell you why."

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The Tucks' story:

They were looking for a place to settle. They went through the woods wanting to get to the end of it. Then, in the middle of the woods they saw the spring. They stopped and everyone took a drink of water, even the horse. Except the cat. They camped there overnight. Tuck carved a T on the tree trunk to mark where they had been. They left the woods and found a populated valley and started their farm. They built two houses. But then peculiar things happened: Jesse fell out of a tree, but it didn't hurt him a bit. A hunter shot the horse, but it didn't kill him. Pa got a snake bite, Jesse ate a poison toadstool, Mae cut herself, but nothing happened to them. But what worried them the most was the fact that they were not getting any older. Miles got married, had 2 children, his wife thought he sold his soul to the Devil and left him. She went away and took the kids with her. So they had to leave their houses, they were like gypsies. They went on into the woods to make a camp, and they saw the tree and the spring. The tree hadn't changed and that was how they found out. They remembered the cat. The cat didn't drink the water and died ten years before. So they decided that the source of their changelessness was the spring. Then Angus Tuck, to make sure, took a shotgun and pointed at himself. The shot went into his heart and right on through him. It didn't kill him.

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"Down the embankment they swayed and there it was, a plain, homely little house, barn-red, and below it the last of the sun flashing on the wrinkled surface of a tiny lake."

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Mae said "Well child, now you share our secret. It's big, dangerous secret. We got to have your help to keep it. We have to take you home with us. Tuck will want to talk to you. We will bring you back tomorrow, all right?" Winnie had no choice. She liked them. They started walking again. They ate bread and cheese. Jesse sang songs and swang like a monkey from the trees. Winnie laughted at Jesse.

No one noticed that the man in the yellow suit heard it all and followed them.

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Miles carried Winnie some of the way. She dozed gratefully in Mile's strong arms. It was a hot day, dry as biscuit, on the brink of burning. They climbed a long hill and ahead another hill, and beyond that a pine forest. Then Winnie revived and was able to ride the horse again. "We're home" cried Jesse. Jesse and Miles raced and disappeared among the trees. Everything was silent and untouched, the ground muffled with moss and sliding needles. The horse picked his way carefully and then ahead the path dropped down a steep embankment; and beyond that a homely little house. There was a pond, the boys went in. At the door was a big man with sad face and baggy trousers. He gently smiled and said "There's just no words to tell you how happy I am to see you."

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Winnie had grown up with order. The cottage was always very clean, mopped and swept. She was unprepared for the homely little house beside the pond, for dust, cobwebs and the mouse who lived in a table drawer. There were only three rooms in the Tuck's house. The kitchen first, with open cabinet where dishes were stacked in towers, an enourmous black stove, a metal sink and every surface, every wall, was piled and strewn with everything imaginable from onions to lanterns. The parlor was next: a green-plush sofa facing a fireplace still deep in winter's ashes; a table with a drawer that housed the mouse pushed into a far corner, three armchairs, an elderly rocker stood about aimlessly, like strangers at a party, ignoring each other. Then a bedroom, with a bed, a washstand with a mirror, and opposite an oak wardrobe. There were narrow stairs to a dusty loft where the boys sleep. There was everywhere evidence of their activities: patches and scraps of bright cloth, half-completed braided rugs, the arms of the sofa with dangerous needles. "We make things to sell" said Mae. "The boys don't be home very much" she said. Winnie than asked "Where do they go? What do they do?" Mae answered: "They go different places, do different things. Miles can do carpentering and he is a blacksmith. Jesse doesn't settle. He does what strikes him at the moment, working in fields or saloons, whatever he comes across." And she continued: "But we can't stay on in any place for long so people don't come to notice us". Winnie said "That's too bad, always moving around and never having any friends or anything." The boys got inside from the pond and got ready for supper.

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"It was a good supper, flapjacks, bacon, bread, and applesauce, but they ate sitting about in the parlor instead of around a table."

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"And then, from the tall pines and birches that ringed the pond, a wood thrush caroled."

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It was a good supper, flapjacks, bacon, bread and applesauce, but they ate sitting about the parlor instead of around the table. Jesse sat on the floor and used the seat of a chair for a table, the others held their plates in their laps. There was no napkins. It was all right to lick maple syrup from your fingers. The Tucks kept their eyes and attention on their food in silence. Winnie had time to think, and with all her thoughts she put down her fork and said "I want to go home". Tuck said that they would take her home after explaining things to her. Tuck was worried. Mae remembered the yellow suit man on the road. Winnie said she knew him and that he could tell her dad. Tuck said "We got to get you home just as fast as we can".

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"He dragged on the oars. The rowboat slowed and began to drift gently toward the farthest end of the pond."

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What are the advantages of living forever?

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What are the advantages of living forever?

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The advantages are that you can travel the whole world, you can also learn every language in the world, have infinite knowledge, be the most intelligent person in the world, never get sick and know everything you want in life.

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The advantages of living forever, in my opinion, is that you can discover many new things like exploring the world without fear, venturing into dangerous things like jumping from a mountain and watching you living your entire life with the one you love most, like your mother.

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You never die or get sick, and you can make endless adventures such as exploring every place on Earth, see the human history through the years, or even try a dangerous experiment that you might die if you try.

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You can travel all around the world and be the world's best maker of anything. You can be rich and famous by performing magic shows.

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You never die the whole life and don’t feel shots and never hurt. You travel around the world and know about everything in the world. You don’t get sick and can do everything that you want to do and know about.

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You can learn all the things in the world and meet a lot of people and you never die. You can also travel around the world. You will see all the new technology on Earth.

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The advantage is that if you die you won't be dead and no one will be sad about your death. And you make new friends too.

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The sun was dropping. Winnie and Tuck climbed in the rowboat. Across the pond a bullfrog spoke a deep note of warning. The rowboat slowed and began to drift gently toward the end of the pond. It was so quiet, they could hear the bullfrog and a wood thrush carols.

Tuck said: "Know what is around us Winnie? Life. Moving, growing, changing. The water is always moving, and someday it comes to the ocean. Know what happens to the water? The sun sucks some of it from the ocean and carries it back in clouds, and then it rains, and the rains falls into the stream, and the stream keeps moving on. It's a wheel Winnie. The frogs are part of it, and the bugs, the fish, the wood thrush, and people. Always growing and changing, and always moving on. That is the way it is supposed to be."

The rowboat got stuck in some rotting chances of a fallen tree.

Then Tuck said " That is what we Tucks are Winnie. Stuck, so we can't move on. Dying is part of the wheel. We can't have life without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are. Do you see now child?

Then a voice rang out "Pa! Come back! The horse is gone!"

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Almost midnight. The man in the yellow suit opened the Foster's gate, and knocked at the door and before the family could speak, he said "I know where they've taken the little girl."

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The Tucks decided to go to bed. There was no way to go look for the horse at night. Mae spread a quilt on the sofa for Winnie. But she didn't sleep for a long time. She was still in her clothes and exhausted by the conversation in the rowboat. "Was it true? Could they really never die?" thought Winnie. She thought about the man in the yellow suit too. He could have already told her parents by now. They must be looking for her.

Mae came to check on her "We've been alone so long. I guess we don't know how to do with visitors. But still, it's a good feeling, you being here with us." Mae said goodnight and went to sleep.

Tuck came too. "I think I should stay here with you until you get to sleep". Winnie said "You don't have to do that, I'm all right". Tuck said goodnight and left. Then came Jesse and he said "Listen, how would it be if you waited until you're seventeen, same age as me, and then you could go and drink some of the water, then we could go away. We could get married."

Once more Winnie adored him. Her cheeks burned. Jesse said "I'll see you in the morning." After that she fell asleep.

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All the people you love die, you become an object of study of the scientists, everybody knows that you exist and starts thinking that you are a “devil creature”, everybody starts hating you and you’ll need to hide yourself in a forest…

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“This time she sat up, pulling the quilt around her in sudden embarrassment, and answered, 'No, not yet'.”

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The only child in the Fosters' cottage.

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"Mae sat there frowning, a great potato of a woman with a round, sensible face and calm brown eyes.";

"Mae Tuck climbed out of bed and began to dress: Three petticoats, a rusty brown skirt with one enornous pocket, an old cotton jacket, and a knitted shawl which she pinned across her bosom with a tarnished metal brooch." (...)

"Mae sat on the edge of the bed and pulled on a pair of short leather boots so thin and soft with age it was a wonder they held together." (...)

"Then, last of all, she pulled down over her ears a blue straw hat with a drooping, exhausted brim. But, before she put on the hat, she brushed her gray-brown hair and wound it into a bun at the back of her neck."

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"His long chin faded off into a thin, apologetic beard, but his suit was a jaunty yellow that seemed to glow a little in the fading light. A black hat dangled from one hand, and as Winnie came toward him, he passed the other through his dry, gray hair, settling it smoothly." (...)

"His tall body moved continuously; a foot tapped, a shoulder twitched. And it moved in angles, rather jerkily. But at the same time he had a kind of grace, like a well-handled marionette. Indeed, he seemed almost to hang suspended there in the twilight."

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"He was thin and sunburned, this wonderful boy, with a thick mop of curly brown hair, and he wore his battered trousers and loose, grubby shirt with a much self-assurance as if they were silk and satin. A pair of green suspenders, more decorative than useful, gave the finishing touch, for he was shoeless and there was a twig tucked between the toes of one foot." (...)

" 'If you must know, I'm seventeen', he said." (...)

"Jesse does what strikes him at the moment, working in the fields, or in saloons, things like that, whatever he comes across."

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"And sure enough, a big, comfortable-looking woman appeared, leading a fat old horse, and at her side was a young man almost as beautiful as Jesse. It was Mae Tuck with her other son, Jesse's older brother." (...)

"I was more than forty by then. I was married. I had two children. But, from the look of me, I was still twenty-two. My wife, she finally made up her mind I'd sold my soul to the Devil. She left me. She went away and she took the children with her."

"Miles can do carpentering, and he's a pretty fair blacksmith, too."

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"Winnie's shyness returned at once when she saw the big man with his sad face and baggy trousers, but as he gazed at her, the warm, pleasing feeling spread through her again. For Tuck's head tilted to one side, his eyes went soft, and the gentlest smile in the world displaced the melancholy creases of his cheeks."

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The yellow suit man went to Treegap to the touch-me-not cottage. He told the Foster family that he knew where Winnie was and that he wanted a wood exactly like theirs. He said: "I've got what you want, and you've got what I want.(...) I want the wood and you want the child. It's a trade. A simple, clear-cut trade."

He looked around at the three shocked faces, and as if he were seeing nothing there but calm agreement, he smiled delightedly and rubbed his hands together.

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The man in the yellow suit went to the constable (police officer) in the middle of the night.

The constable found it very suspicious but decided to follow the yellow suit man's instructions to the Tuck's cottage.

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For the second morning in a row, Winnie Foster woke early. The birds were celebrating, giving the new day a brass band's worth of greeting. Winnie went to the window. Miles came into the parlor smiled and whispered "Come on - you can help me catch some fish for breakfast".

While in the pond, trying to get some fish, Miles talked about himself: "Remember I told you I had two children? Well, one of'em was a girl. Her name was Anna. She'd be close to eighty now, if she's even still alive. And my son - he'd be eight-two."

Winnie asked Miles "Why didn't you take them to the spring and give them some of the special water?"

"Well, of course, we didn't realize about the spring while we was still on the farm. Afterwards, I thought about going to find them. I wanted to, but they'd have had a pa close to the same age they was." said Miles.

Winnie thought and sighed "It'd be nice, if nothing ever had to die." And Miles added "Well, I don't know. If you think on it, you come to see there'd be so many creatures, including people, we'd all be squeezed in right up next to each other before long."

Winnie thought about what Miles said "If all the mosquitoes lived forever - and if they kept on having babies! - it would be terrible. The Tucks were right. It was best if no one knew about the spring, including the mosquitoes. She would keep the secret.

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Miles and Winnie came back to the cottage empty-handed from the pond. Not because Miles didn't know how to catch a fish, but because Winnie wanted to weep when she saw the hook in a fish's upper lip. They had flapjacks again for breakfast. Winnie wished for a fleeting moment, that she could stay with them forever.

Someone knocked at the door. It was the man in the yellow suit.

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The yellow suit man came into the house. "I've come to take you home" he said to Winnie and added: "Well, you may as well sit down again. You, too, Mrs. Tuck. I have a great deal to say and very little time for saying it." So the Tucks sat to listen to his story.

The yellow suit man said that he had grown up listening to his grandmother's stories. He believed on them. The stories were about a friend of his grandmother who married into a very odd family. This friend married the older of two sons, and had two children. She lived with her husband for twenty years, and strange to say, he never got any older. Neither did his mother, father and brother. His grandmother's friend decided that they were witches or worse. She left her husband and came to live with his grandmother for a short while.

The yellow suit man was fascinated by this story: people who never grew older. He devoted his life to finding out if it could be true. He went to university, studied philosophy, metaphysics, medicine. One day, he gave his grandmother a present: a music box. It reminded her of the mother of the family that didn't grow old. She had a music box. That music box played a very particular tune. And that was a clue. He never forgot the tune. So a few months ago he decided to look for the family again, he followed the route the Tuck's family had taken when they left their farm. And it was the day he met Winnie, he heard the music and recognized it. The next morning he saw the family taking Winifred away and followed them.

And he added: "The wood and the spring belong to me now. I'm going to sell the water. You can show me where the spring is and help me to advertise. I'll pay for your assistance, of course."

Tuck roared "You can't do that! You got to be out of your mind! You are a madman! Don't you see what would happen?"

The yellow suit man dragged Winnie through the kitchen to the door. She was screaming. Mae took a shotgun by the barrel, swung it round her head like a wheel, the stock of the shotgun smashed into the back of his skull and the yellow man suit dropped like a tree.

At that moment, riding through the pine trees came the Treegap constable.

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The yellow suit man wasn't dead.

The constable asked "What did you hit him for?" Mae replied: "He was taking the child away."

The constable exploded "That is what you done. You kidnapped that child."

Winnie turned and said "They didn't kidnap me. I came because I wanted to. They are my friends."

The constable with disbelief said "Well, anyway. I got to take charge here. If this feller dies, you'll get the gallows."

Miles and Jesse lifted the man in the yellow suit and carried him into the house. Tuck stood staring. Mae was taken to jail and Winnie was taken back to her home.

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It was already night, and Winnie pulled her little rocking chair up to her bedroom window and sat down. The constable had brought her home.

Winnie was thinking of Mae when she heard footsteps and a knocking on the door. It was the constable. He came to say that the man in the yellow suit was dead.

Winnie climbed on her bed, closed her eyes and thought that she had to do something. Mae musn't go to the gallows.

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Next morning Winnie went out to the fence directly after breakfast. It was the hottest day. She saw the toad by the fence. The toad looked dried. She went back into the cottage and asked her Granny for some water in a dish for a toad. Her grandmother said "Toads don't drink water. They take it through their skins, like a sponge, when it rains. When Winnie was back with the water to sprinkle on the toad, he was gone. Miraculously, Jesse was there.

Jesse came to say goodbye. He told Winnie about their plan to take Mae from the jail. Miles knows about carpentering, so he could take Mae's window frame right straight out of the wall, bars and all, and she could climb through. Jesse gave Winnie a bottle of water from the spring and said "You keep it. And then, no matter where you are, when you're seventeen, Winnie, you can drink it, and then come find us."

Winnie than whispered "I can help! When you mother climbs out the window, I'll climb in and take her place. I can wrap myself up in her blanket, and when the constable looks in, he won't be able to tell the difference. Not in the dark. I will be waiting for you here, right at midnight."

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The first week of August was long over. There was a feeling that the wheel was turning again. Winnie was standing at the fence and could hear the voices of the birds. Across the road, goldenrod and milkweed coming into bloom. Two weeks had gone since Mae's escape and has not been found. And she reviewed how everthing happened that night:

The constable came into the cell after she had settled herself on the cot. He let down a shutter over the window to keep out the rain. Winnie, under the blanket, tried to look as large as possible. He went away but Winnie did not sleep. Next morning, when he appeared whistling and carrying a breakfast tray, he found Winnie and his face flushed red with anger. The constable shout at Winnie. She was an accomplie, a criminal, but too young to be punished by the law. She was released into the custody of her mother and father and could not go anywhere.

Then two things happened: The toad appeared out of the weeds and a large brown dog. The dog looked friendly at Winnie but as it saw the toad, it started barking. Winnie flapped her arms to get the dog away from the toad. And without realizing, she reached through the bars of the fence and snatched the toad up away from harm. She dropped it inside the fence, and wiped her hands again and again. The dog was still waiting outside the fence. She ran into the cottage, got the bottle of water from the spring Jesse had given her. Winnie poured the water over the toad. The dog got bored and went away. Winnie picked up the toad and held it for a long time. Then she put her hand through the fence set the toad free and said "You're safe. Forever".

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"For the hundredth time she reviewed it all: how the constable had come into the cell soon afer she had settled herself on the cot; (...)"

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“And then two things happened. First of all, the toad appeared out of the weeds, on her side of the road this time.”

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“(...) the constable appeared, carrying a breakfast tray. He was whistling cheerfully. He came up to the barred door of her cell and looked in. And his whistling died on his lips as if it had run down and needed to be wound up again."

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Simple Past or Present Perfect - Exercise

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Grammar Exercises, Simple Past, Present Perfect, English tenses, Online Exercise

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You will be hunted, you will lose everything and everybody that you love and when the planet explodes you will be lying around the space, you will be mute because in space there is no air and consequently no sound.

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You feel like a rock in the Earth, you see all your favorite people dying, and some people can say that you are weird.

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All your friends and family die. People start to get jealous of you because you never die no matter what, and you have to go to another planet or country for some years (In case you feel worried with them hunting for you).

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The disadvantage is that you will see someone younger or older than you dying and you will be left alone on this sad earth without anyone.

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We can’t go to heaven and need to go to school every day because you will never be sick. And when everybody in the world dies you are going to stay alone because you are never going to die.

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The disadvantages of living forever, in my opinion are: at some point you will get tired of living, you will see the people you love most die, you will be depressed and see the world ending.

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The simple past tells us that an action happened at a certain time in the past. Here are some expressions that usually come with simple past sentences.

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In order to build the Present Perfect tense, we need the AUXILIARY VERB (have/has) + the main verb in the PARTICIPLE (been, blown, chosen, given, etc...).

Here is a selected list of them.