“What if you could live forever?” The novel is about a well-known circle of life and how death is just a part of it. God created us to live, to explore and to learn the values of life and eventually die. The main protagonist of the novel is Winnie Foster, a ten-year-old girl who overly protected by her parents and her grandmother, decided to explore a new world of fantasy. In the fantasy world she discovers a spring of immortality and there comes question should we live forever? Interrupting a natural circle of life and living forever would cause devastating consequences to our world. The main message is that life was created to make a change and that is a lesson which Winnie learns.
It was early August; the girl Winnie spent her summer days in a house surrounded the woods. One morning, Winnie decided to explore the woods.
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Winnie’s best friend the Toad seemed to have all human characteristics. The idea of immortality was presented in the kingdom of fantasy. Winnie was a normal girl who was growing and coming face-to-face with the realities and the values of life and what she learnt through the book is very meaningful to everyone. Winnie begins as tired of being in her house with her parents; she wanted to explore life far away from home. From that point her life completely changed. She learnt about friendship, love, greed and she learnt how to stand for what is right even the consequences are bad, also found out that death is need not to be feared because it is a natural part of the life cycle. The bottle with the spring water that Winnie gave the Toad, gave eternal life to it. Understanding what unselfishness is she helped those who needed the most. In the end she chose life and death rather than immortal life, she wanted to change, to grow, to live rather than stay forever a ten-year old girl and see how her family was