Tuck Everlasting is a book by Natalie Babbitt that takes place in 1880 in a small town called Tree Gap. The main character is a girl by the name of Winifred Foster. Winnie is very adventurous and is confined to her little “Touch me not” house, because of the worries of her rich family. They are very hard on her and always expect her to do the right thing, because she is not allowed to go outside the big iron fence surrounding her, and the emotional one of her family, she wants to get away. She decides to wander off into the forest that her family owns and stumbles upon a fountain and finds a boy. They have a little chat, but then comes his family. She gets kidnapped by his family and they spill the beans on the reasons they kidnapped her