1. It is now the end of the summer and autumn is arriving shortly. The first sentence is happy and content expressing how nice it is being the best part of summer. The last sentence is depressing, expressing the worst part of summer.
2. Yes, Winnie got into a lot of trouble with her family for helping Mae escape. I think they reacted like this because they thought Winnie was an innocent little girl and they didn’t want her to feel the evils of the world that she had never faced, because she was always confined to the house.
3. Winnie grabs the toad and takes him onto the opposite side of the fence from the dog and then she gives it the magic water that lets you live forever. I think she didn’t do the right thing because the toad didn’t have a choice in the matter.
4. In the epilogue when Tuck and Mae are walking through the town two years after Winnie had died, they saw the toad sitting on the road.
5. 70 years had passed before Tuck and Mae visited Treegap again.
6. They learned that it was struck by lightning and everything had to be bulldozed down.
7. The weather was stormy and the weather was also like this the night they broke out of jail.
8. She was probably always carefully watched so nothing dangerous could happen to her again.
9. Tuck said, “Good Girl” because he was happy that she died so she wouldn’t live forever. Yes, we believe this was a good ending because it didn’t leave any things left open and it gave the book a twist.
