The Bottle of Spring Water
Imagine if your Nalgene were filled with water that would make you live forever. Pretty sweet deal, right? Well, that's Winnie's situation, and it's put her in kind of a pickle. First, let's recap....
The Toad
Winnie's toad friend is more of a toad friend-of-convenience. The little guy doesn't really seem to care about Winnie, but she confides in him anyway because she has no one else to talk to:[The toa...
The Music Box
What is there to the music box? It's just "a little square-shaped object […] painted with roses and lilies of the valley. It was the one pretty thing [Mae] owned and she never went anywhere witho...
The Pond and the Rowboat
This one won't take much brain power—Tuck does most of the work for us. Out on the pond, Tuck lays it all out:"Know what that is, all around us, Winnie? […] Life. Moving, growing, changing, nev...
The Trout
And then Miles caught a fish. There it flopped, in the bottom of the boat, its jaw working, its gills fanning rapidly. Winnie drew up her knees and stared at it. It was beautiful, and horrible too,...
Religious Allegory
An allegory is a story with (count 'em) two levels of meaning. First, there's the surface of the story. You know, the characters and plot and all that obvious stuff. Then there's the symbolic level...