THE HEART IN CONFLICT

The book (also a movie), Tuck Everlasting is the story of a girl, Winnie Foster and a boy named Jesse Tuck. Jesse Tuck and his family are immortal because they drank water from a special pool years prior. Winnie meets Jesse in the woods and gets to know him and eventually falls in love with him even with knowing his family secret. People of the town start to get suspicious so the Tuck's have to leave and Winnie has to make a decision whether to go back and drink the water and wait for Jesse or not drink the water and live a normal life. Years later, Jesse comes back to the house Winnie lived in and visits the cemetery beside the house. He finds her gravestone and realizes that she chose not to drink the water and she lived a long happy life as a wife and a mother.