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Winnie Foster, is one of the main characters from the novel “Tuck Everlasting”, written by Natalie Babbitt. == Story summary == Winifred "Winnie" Foster is a young girl living in the wooded town of Treegap. She lives with her mother, father, and grandmother in a small cottage in their forest. She is tired of being cooped up in her tiny front yard, and of following orders from her family, so one day, she decides to run away from home and venture into the dark forest at the break of dawn. After ambling around for some time, she stumbles into a clearing and finds a teenage boy drinking out of a spring. Startled, the boy quickly wipes away any trace of him drinking, and starts making a conversation with Winnie. Puzzled and curious, Winnie talks to this strange boy, and asks if she can have a drink of the spring to quench her thirst, but is quickly forbidden by the young man named Jesse. Soon later, Jesse’s mother, Mae, and older brother, Miles, come riding into the clearing and find Jesse standing with young Winnie. They are astonished, but instantly realize what is happened, and decide to kidnap her, while reassuring her that they are not bad people, but it’s the only way to make her understand. They take her on a long ride through the forest, and take a rest stop at a nearby lake. While resting and enjoying the beautiful countryside, the Tuck family start telling her their story. They were just an ordinary family passing through Treegap when they came upon the spring. They all took a drink from this odd spring thinking that it would do nothing to them, and then marked their initials into a nearby tree to show that they had been there. Many years later mysterious things started happening. The Tucks grew older as time passed, but they never aged, and Miles’ small family moved away without him, in fear that his family was performing black magic. Their suspicions grew as things happened around them that would kill a normal person, while they remained unharmed. They then moved into their small cottage in the forest and have been living there for more than 80 years. Winnie thinks they're lying to her, and that the Tucks are mad, but at the same time, she wants to believe them with all her heart. The Tucks tell all their stories to Winnie, unaware that a man in a yellow suit was eavesdropping on them. After their stop at the pond, they keep going through the forest until they reach the Tucks beautiful little cottage tucked away deep in the woods. After Winnie is welcomed, and the afternoon goes by, the Tucks have a delicious dinner, and afterwards, Angus Tuck, the husband of Mae and father of Miles and Jesse, takes Winnie out on the pond in the rowboat. While on the pond, Angus tells Winnie about his life, and how he feels about living forever. When Winnie and Angus return to the house, they find that their horse, which is also immortal is missing. Winnie goes to bed, but stays up most of the night, uncomfortable and puzzled. The next morning, Winnie wakes up early and goes fishing with Miles. On the pond, Miles tells Winnie about his life, and his family, after which Winnie and Miles go back to the cottage. Shortly after, the man in the yellow suit comes to the Tucks' house and tells them that he knows their secret, and that he wants them to be a part of his advertisement for selling the spring water. The Tucks quickly refuse, but then see Winnie being taken away in their place. Full of anger, Mae takes her shotgun and hits the man sharply across the head, leaving him unconscious. The Treegap constable arrived just in time to see all of this, and harshly insists that he take Winnie back home, and that Mae is to be taken to jail, and maybe even the gallows for what she had done. Winnie and Mae are taken away from the Tucks, and the constable returns Winnie back to her home to her parents. The constable tells the Fosters all about the Tucks and what happened. Winnie spent the rest of the afternoon thinking hard, and finally makes the decision that she would help Mae escape from prison. That night, Winnie, Jesse, Miles, and Angus set off to free Mae. When they get to the prison, they unbolt the windows to Mae’s cell, help her out, and leave. Before their departure, Jesse gives Winnie a bottle of the springs water so she can drink it when she is older and marry him. The next morning, Winnie is discovered by the constable and taken home again. She lies about the Tucks to her parents, but felt good that she had helped them. The next day she goes outside to play with a toad that she had found, when a hungry dog approached. She quickly poures the everlasting water from the spring out of the bottle that Jesse had given to her, giving the toad everlasting life as well as safety. Mae and Angus return many years later, finding Winnie's gravestone, and that Winnie got married and had kids, and died at age 78. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Winnie Foster」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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