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Sure, he's 104, but he has the body of a fit and fine seventeen-year-old: 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 as much self-assurance as if they were silk and satin.
Jesse is Angus and Mae's younger son. He's 17 and Winnie is immediately attracted to him when she comes across him drinking from the stream in her family's wood. Of all the Tucks, Jesse seems the most relieved to finally share the secret with Winnie.
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Jesse Tuck is the ageless love interest of Winnie Foster in Tuck Everlasting.
Jesse will be an everlasting 17-year-old. He lives his life happily and freely, without fear. In comparison to his older brother, Miles, he has never known love until he meets Winnie Foster. Naive as he may be, he believes that it will all go alright and asks her to wait for him. However he comes back 80 years later.
Son of Angus and Mae Tuck, at 104 years of age, Jesse doesn't know what he'll do with his life yet. He is a bit careless and falls 12 meters upon climbing a tree. Naive and romantic, he protects Winnie from her fear of drowning and even from Miles.
Jesse wants to travel the world and to find new bits of it. He sees more beauty in a wood than in the vies from the Eiffel Tower with its 1652 steps to the top, which he did climb.
Although Jesse lives as if he had all the time in the world (which in fact he does have) he lives his life, he doesn't just see it pass. He travels and has adventures and climbs all the steps to the Eiffel Tower so that he can appreciate more!
Jesse Tuck is the ageless love interest of Winnie Foster in Tuck Everlasting. He's also full of bon viveur and is the only person to be excited by being immortal. He drank from the spring aged 17, and has seen the seven wonders of the world.
Jesse Tuck – The youngest in his family, Jesse is 104 years old but physically appears to be seventeen. Though he enjoys immortality, he is lonely, so he asks Winnie to drink the water when she is 17 so she can marry him.
- Natalie Babbitt
- 1975
Nov 21, 2023 · Jesse Tuck is the 17-year-old son of Mae and Angus Tuck. He is technically 104 years old. 87 years ago, his family and their horse inadvertently drank from a spring that froze them in time...
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a 104-year-old who doesn't look a day over 17. Unlike other immortal teenagers, however, Jesse Tuck doesn't chose to brood on his hapless fate. The way Jesse sees it, being 17 forever is actually kind of fun.
