Example of a Character collage project
Description of my collage:
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​I chose the background of the collage to be the woods since the story began in the woods. Most
of the events happened there too.
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​In the middle of the collage I used the image of an old but young looking tree. This tree is the
symbol of the life in the woods and it was the hidden place for the magic water. This tree
represents the backbone of the whole novel. The tuck’s engraved some writing on the tree when
they first drank the water. I had to include that in my collage. They wouldn’t know the tree without
these engraved letters that they left to identify it.
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​ he next important event is the love between Winnie and Jesse. This love is represented by the
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heart and the two angles with their arrows that hit their targets which are Jesse and Winnie’s
hearts. Even though they didn’t end up together the love remain in their hearts.
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​The musical box indicates Mae’s memories from her past. This box is very important and
valuable to her. The music that came from that box is the one event that started all the tragedy in
the story.
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​ n the bottom of the old tree there is the image of Winnie watching Jesse drinking the magic
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water. This was the first time they meet. I think that is when they fall in love with each other.
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​I used the image of the immortality of Nelson to represent the immortality that the Tuck’s family
got from drinking the water. They both were wondering of the meaning of life and what will happen
to the soul after death. Nelson he had found the truth by his death but tuck’s family will never find
out because of their immortality before death.
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​ he boat in the water represents the two times Winnie sailed in the lake. Once with Tuck to
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explain to her the importance of hiding the truth about the water in the woods. Second, the small
fishing trip that she took with Miles in the lake.
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​ he picture of all the hands reaching shows that all people will want to drink from that water.
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Also represent the greed of human race if they know of such thing exist.
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​ he cartoon of the hours and the thief and next to it the man with yellow suit, tell that the man
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had to steal the hours to go back to Winnie’s family to bargain with them in order to get the woods.
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​ he dog and the toad were Winnie’s best friends. Winnie had to give the water to the toad to
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save him from the hot day. Next to it is the image of an empty bottle. She probably didn’t believe in
the magic of this water or she thought that she can get it any time she wants from the woods. Why
didn’t she try to obtain more from the woods when she became seventeen?
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​ ae in jail is all the way at the upper right corner of the collage. She seems shocked and sad in
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the same time because she didn’t really wanted to kill the man with the yellow suit. She would
want it to end peacefully if he just listened to them and released Winnies.
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​ he last image which is the greatest in this story. This was the end for the tree, woods, the
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magic water, Winnie’s immortality, and the end of the. The lightening hitting the tree. The tree was
destroyed so is Jesse’s dream of living with his love for ever.
This is a beautiful with low fantasy story. Students at middle school level would enjoy this book. It
would challenge their thinking to examine the idea of living forever, making serious decisions, and
dealing with the consequence of their decisions. This story might lead them to compare between the
immortality in this book and the people who decide to freeze their bodies in our era. Frozen bodies it is
kind of immortality in my opinion. What do you think? Is this only the beginning of our immortality in
this world?
Picture credit to the following sites:
Picture of the tree in the center of collage w
​ ww.seabritain2005.com/ server.php?show=conMed...
Picture of bottle ​www.edhat.com/site/ tidbit.cfm?id=350
www.texaspineywoods.com/ Hunting/1998SquirrelC...
www.dreamscape.com/ bluprint/winnie.html
www.edgypix.com/ cats/tree01.html
www.octc.org/ study%20guides/tuck_guide.htm