What do you think about the ending??

[[deleted user]]

What would you have done if you were Winnie?

[[deleted user]]

I would be too tempted

[Georgia]

have you seen the movie

[Robin]

I would have stayed with the Tucks. Her home life sucked bad.

[[deleted user]]

i felt like her family loved her a lot, they were just really formal & maybe controlling.
do you think Jesse was selfish asking her to drink the water?
do you think she missed out on her 'true love' by not drinking the water?

(i'm talking about the book, i haven't seen the movie yet)

[Natalie]

I probably would have done what she did. There's something that freaks me out about living forever, even though I did like the Tucks.

[Robin]

They never had to worry about wrinkles. I think she was tempted to drink the water, but I guess her better sensibilities over ruled.

[Cherese]

I liked the ending. She had puppy love for Jesse. Could that really translate into forever? I think even at so young an age, she knew better. I wouldn't have drunk the water.

[Tena]

I liked the ending, I just wish there was a sequal to it, not about the living forever part but what happens to the characters after they made their desisions. Winnie must have been tempted more than once to go back and drink from the spring, right? and what did Jesse do once he found out Winnie decided not to drink from the spring? I still have daydreams in which I imagine what would happen if Jesse came back and found her daughter or something

[[deleted user]]

I agree with Tena... It would have been awesome if there was a sequel. I loved this book but don't really know what I would've done if I was in Winnie's position...

[Elise]

this is the best book ive ever read in my whole life.......................................................

[Christina]

I would have done as she did. I don't want to live forever on Earth. I've got better things coming my way:)

[Cherese]

Alexis wrote: "I agree with Tena... It would have been awesome if there was a sequel. I loved this book but don't really know what I would've done if I was in Winnie's position..."

I agree too. A sequel about the boys would have been interesting. It would have been cool to know what they did with technology and how they would've been able to "disappear" in modern society with social security numbers tracking everyone and such.

[Austinp]

i probably wouldnt have chose to live forever

[Trent]

I would have what Winnie did. Living forever isn't my cup of tea.

[Alyssa]

I think the ending probably showed that as Winnie started to grow up, she realized she wanted to keep doing that. Perhaps she saw some of the anguish the Tuck family felt as time grew up around them but they stayed the same.

[S.L.]

I felt bad for Jesse, but I liked the ending, a LOT.

Winnie was such a strong character.

[Anna]

Personally, I would have been very tempted to drink the water because for one thing, I would have been glad to be Jesse forever and ever. But if you had children? You would remind young and youthful while your children become older and finally die. It's like a living hell.

[Phoebe]

I will choose the same. I can not live forever when my family and friends already died. I can't live with a lonely life remembering them. I would gladly accept Jesse but it think it will not make me feel complete. Day by day, I think I will not like my life anymore until it will have no sense at all.

Compared to Twilight (I'm deeply sorry for comparing but the story resembles a lot), Winifred is so young to choose the right decision of living life the normal way unlike Bella who did not care about anyone or anything except Edward.

[Valencia]

I think the ending was pretty sad, poor Jesse.
I agree with most of you here, there should have been another book to this :)

[Abigail]

I loved the ending I thought it was really sad though.
I'm glad Winnie didn't drink the water because her family really did love her they were just a little overbearing.

[Briana]

Oh My Gooooodnesss!!!!!!!!! I hated it! It was awful. I loved the whole book and it ended like that and I literally screamed. We read this in my 6th grade reading class. We read it together and when it ended I screamed and started freaking out. I was stopping my feet and flippin' crap on a group of kids who didn't understand how much I loved books and it hurt me when one ended with stupidity. SHE DIES!!!!! Death was not the answer!!!!

[Gemzi]

Briana wrote: "Oh My Gooooodnesss!!!!!!!!! I hated it! It was awful. I loved the whole book and it ended like that and I literally screamed. We read this in my 6th grade reading class. We read it together and whe..."

I agree with Briana! The book is just amazing, but the epilogue ruined it completely! I can't believe people actually like the end to this book! I was almost crying when it ended. Why did it have to happen like that? I personally think I would have taken the water instead of giving it to the toad. Who knows, maybe the toad had already been to the spring, and is already immortal. Who knows?

[K-lee]

I wish she drank the water and be immortal but no she gave it to a stupid toad that should dye but all well she was to stupid to drink it.she paid the price she die and but maybe had a good life.

[Monique]

I think that the author could have left it to the readers imagination, but I'm pretty sure everybody would be totally upset if they didn't know if Winnie drank the water or not:)

[Audree]

Emily wrote: "What would you have done if you were Winnie?"

I would have drank the spring water and spend my life with jessie

[Angelica]

I have not watched the movie but I think the book is really amazing and touching. I am amazed with Winnie's choice not to drink the spring water. It just proved that Winnie wanted to be a normal person. She wanted to live and die like a normal person. If I were Winnie, I wouldn't drink the water too because it would be tiring to run away from the places you have lived in. :)

[Stephanie ❤️]

Personally with my close-knit family life, I couldn't have handled not being able to ever see my family or having to see my loved ones one day pass away. I mean, I'm SUPER close to my family..

BUT if I were in Winnie's position, with the controlling life styles and high expectations her parents forced upon her.. I probably would have run off with Jesse and his family! :)

[Nicole D.]

Reading it young in 6th grade I didn't like the ending.Now I understand the ending but not that Winnie was 12 and Jessie was 16.It just seemed really unlikely and very weird that a 16 year old would fall for a 12 year old.

[Stephanie ❤️]

Nicole D. wrote: "Reading it young in 6th grade I didn't like the ending.Now I understand the ending but not that Winnie was 12 and Jessie was 16.It just seemed really unlikely and very weird that a 16 year old woul..."

lol I read this when I was in 6th grade too. But I must have just been a romance type of girl even back then, because I wanted Winnie to run off and live happily ever after with Jesee! (Disney much?) :P

[Valencia]

Nicole D. wrote: "Reading it young in 6th grade I didn't like the ending.Now I understand the ending but not that Winnie was 12 and Jessie was 16.It just seemed really unlikely and very weird that a 16 year old woul..."

Actually, age doesn't matter where love is concerned :)

[Leila]

i agree with because she was never let out of the house so she was like a dog in a cage!!!!!!

[Leila]

yeah she shoudnt have drank the water because as you said her family loved her and that would have been the biggest mistake of her life

[Valencia]

I would have drank that water and lived with Jesse <3

[Charlotte]

I would be conflicted if I was Winnie. I mean on the one hand you have spending the rest of your life with the boy you are clearly in love with and getting the chance to travel the world or live a normal life and get married to some else who you will never truly love and have a family with them. I don't know the living forever and seeing all the people you love die is pretty sad but so is marring someone you don't truly love and forced to spend the rest of your life with them.

[Mariah]

deleted user wrote: "What would you have done if you were Winnie?"
I would've taken it because whose to say you couldn't have children with someone you could live forever with. I mean how many people wish to be with the person they have lost. I know having everyone you know die would be terrible and devastating but that's what happens in life as well. I wish she and Jesse would've been together for ever because she could've still had a life filled with love and happiness. For me it's kind of like the gospel having an eternal family. but on the other hand may be she didn't really love him as much as he loved her.