The prologue to Tuck Everlasting lists three seemingly unrelated things that happen one August day. At dawn, Mae Tuck sets out for the woods at the edge of the village of Treegap, where she intends to meet her sons, Miles and Jesse, as she does once every ten years. At noon, Winnie Foster begins to think about running away. And at dusk, a stranger appears at the Fosters' door looking for someone.
The three events turn out to be very much interrelated, and they produce a conflict disastrous enough to cause "this weary old earth" to "trembl[e] on its axis like a beetle on a pin." The plot of the book unfolds as these three events come together.
The next day, Winnie acts on her plan to run away by heading into her family's wood, which is where Mae plans to meet Miles and Jesse. Winnie meets Jesse first and sees him drinking the miraculous water. In order to keep their secret, Mae, Jesse, and Miles kidnap Winnie.
The stranger who had appeared at the Fosters' gate the previous night was looking for the Tucks. Because Mae carried her music box into the wood and played it as he was standing at the Fosters' gate, the man suspects that one of the Tucks is in the wood, so he observes as the Tucks set out on the road with Winnie toward their home. He follows them and eavesdrops on the story when the Tucks explain the secret of the water to Winnie.
Now the three events have intersected, and with the stranger's nefarious intentions to sell the water to the world, a cataclysm looms that only Winnie can prevent.
The Prologue, or the introduction section of the novel, sets up the mystery of the Tucks and the major changes that come to Winnie Foster's life by describing three events that seem to have no connection. The events in question, take place on a summer day, during the first week of August. The readers are told of how Mae Tuck, at dawn, sets out on her traditional trip to Treegap woods. The narrator tells us that Mae makes this trip every 10 years. This is the start of the mystery of the Tuck family and introduces the reader to this strange family. The reader starts to question how old is Mae and her sons and why do they meet every 10 years. The reader is then introduced to Winnie Foster, who's family owns the Treegap woods, and who is considering running away. This draws the reader into Winnie's world and mind set, at the start of the novel. The last event, that takes place near sunset, is the arrival of a stranger. Just as the narrator set up the mysterious Tuck family, this stranger also comes with a mystery. He appears at the Foster's gate and he has a mission to find someone, but he would not say who.
The three things that the question is asking about can be found in the story's opening prologue. It is there that readers are told that three things happened that appeared to have no connection to each other at all.
The first thing that happened was Mae Tuck began to head toward the town of Treegap. The narrator tells readers that this is something that she does every ten years. This event happened at dawn.
The second thing that happened was Winnie Foster decided that she would begin thinking about running away. This event happened at noon.
The third thing that happened was a stranger arrived at the Foster home looking for someone; however, he would not say who exactly he was looking for. This event happened at sunset.
The events are connected to each other because Mae is going to Treegap to meet her sons. Winnie runs away and meets the Tucks, and the stranger follows Winnie and the Tucks in order to learn their secret.
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