What is the summary of Chapter 3 in "Tuck Everlasting"?

In Chapter 3, Winnie is sitting in the grass just inside the fence around her house, talking to "the only living thing in sight", a sleepy, ponderous-looking frog.  Winnie is frustrated because she feels like she is constantly being watched and corrected by her mother and grandmother, and she longs to "just be by (her)self for a change".  Winnie would love to just be able to do something interesting, "something that's all (hers)".  She wants to do "something that would make some kind of difference in the world...to have a new name, one that's not all worn out from being called so much".  She considers the merits of having a pet, perhaps one like the toad to whom she is addressing her complaints, but concludes that such an act would be cruel, because then the poor toad would "have to be cooped up in a cage", similar to how Winnie feels about herself.  After thinking for awhile, Winnie "expect(s) (she)'d better run away".  Her mother calls her, and Winnie, exasperated, resolves to run away the very next morning (Chapter 3).

What events occur in Chapters 6-10 of Tuck Everlasting?

In Chapter 6, Winnie is whisked away as she is about to drink from the spring.  Her kidnappers are Mae Tuck and her boys Miles and Jesse.  When Winnie begins to cry, Mae soothes her with a music box, whose music Winnie remembers hearing in the woods before.

In Chapter 7, the Tucks tell her their amazing story, about how eighty-seven years ago they unwittingly discovered that the water in the spring has magical powers.  Anyone who drinks from it will never die.

In Chapter 8, the Tucks are euphoric that they finally have been able to share their secret with someone.  Their exhuberance in contagious, expecially when Winnie realizes that they are her friends.  No one notices that the man in the yellow suit has crept up by the stream, and has heard the whole story about the magic waters.

In Chapter 9, Winnie arrives at the Tucks' home, and is warmly welcomed by the patriarch, Angus Tuck.

In Chapter 10, Winnie, who has had a very structured upbringing, is surprised at the disorder in which the Tucks live.  After thinking about it, she realizes that their home, though not neat, is comfortable.  Mae tells her about some of the difficulties of life that occur because they will never grow old - for example, they have to keep moving around because people will get suspicious, and they can have no lasting friends.  The Tucks are positive in attitude, however, and accepting of whatever comes their way.

What are the important events in Tuck Everlasting?

If you are talking about a "timeline of events," then you are talking about the plot of the story.  This timeline usually runs from the exposition, the inciting incident (often called the conflict), the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution.  Even though some scholars disagree on the climax of the story, all of the elements in the plot timeline can be found in Tuck Everlasting.

The exposition is when we, as readers, learn about Winnie Foster, her dislike of her life at home and her plan to run away.  The inciting incident is when Winnie spies Jesse Tuck drinking from a hidden spring and wonders what he is up to.  (This is what changes the course of events in the story.)  From here begins the rising action, we learn that the Tucks are actually hundreds of years old and that the spring they are drinking from is a magical spring that gives eternal life to its drinkers.  The Tucks keep Winnie with them until she understands the truth about what is going on.  Other parts of the rising action involve the man with the yellow suit who has tried to find out the truth about the Tucks for years.  When the man in the yellow suit finally comes to take Winnie back home, Mae Tuck has to resort to violence in order to keep the family's secret.  She hits the man in the yellow suit with a gun (actually pistol-whipping him) so hard that he eventually dies.  Unfortunately, it is at this moment that the police arrive, and Mae is not only taken to jail but convicted and scheduled to be hung.  Winnie and the Tuck family break Mae out of jail in order to contain their secret.  (Because of the spring water, Mae cannot die.) 

Everything's a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping. The frogs is part of it, and the bugs, and the fish, and the wood thrush, too. And people. But never the same ones. Always coming in new, always growing and changing, and always moving on. That's the way it's supposed to be. That's the way it is.

This is the moment in question among scholars:  is Mae's violence against the man in the yellow suit the climax, or is the jailbreak the climax?  Because the climax is the height of the tension, my opinion is that the pistol-whipping scene is the climax.  The jailbreak isn't quite as anxious (just because we know that Mae couldn't be killed anyway).  This makes the jailbreak and the escape of all the Tucks part of the falling action.  Even though Jesse asks Winnie to drink the water and be his wife, she decides not to.  The resolution of the story comes when we see Winnie's grave and find that she has died after leading a normal life.

Therefore, the timeline of events follow a traditional plot line of exposition, the inciting incident (often called the conflict), the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution.  As a result, it is a perfect story for a teacher to instruct students on the elements of plot.

What are the important events in Tuck Everlasting?

It is not possible to list all events here, but here are some important ones.

-Winnie Foster is dissatisfied with home.  Her family has lived on the same plot of land for generations.  They are uptight.

-Winnie meets a boy named Jesse Tuck drinking from a spring.

-Jesse Tuck turns out to be immortal, and over a hundred years old.

-The Tuck family holds Winnie captive until she understands their situation.

-A man in a yellow suit arrives to take Winnie home and take over the spring, but Mae Tuck shoots him.

-Mae is arrested and convicted of murder, but when they try to hang her it won’t work.

-They break Mae out of jail.

-Jesse gives Mae some of the immortality-giving water, and tells her to wait until she is 17 to drink it or choose a mortal life.

Once she had hidden Jesse's bottle in the bureau drawer, there was nothing to do but wait. (p. 117)

-When the Tucks return years later, they learn that Winnie lived a happy mortal life and died.

What is significant in pages 50-65 of Tuck Everlasting?

I hope that I get the correct section of the book that the question is referring to.  I'm not sure which edition of the text that you have, so mine might be a bit different.  In my text, pages 50-65 are chapters 10, 11, and 12.  

Chapter 10 is important, because Winnie gets to have some alone time with Mae.  The interaction is low key and not intimidating.  Mae explains how and why the Tuck family must be separated for years at a time.  The entire conversation serves to humanize Mae and her family, and Winnie is much less concerned about being at home and whether or not she has actually been kidnapped or not.  The other reason chapter 10 is important is because Winnie gets to snoop around the Tuck household.  It's a polar opposite from her home.  In fact, the Tuck household actually feels like more of a home than her own house.  

It was a whole new idea to her that people could live in such disarray, but at the same time she was charmed. It was . . . comfortable.

Chapter 11 is quite short and not a lot happens.  Winnie and the Tuck family sit together at the table and enjoy a meal together.  Winnie announces that she recognized the man in the yellow suit.  Angus Tuck announces that he will take Winnie out in the rowboat in order to explain their odd existence.  

"Hush," Tuck interrupted. "Everyone hush. I'll take Winnie rowing on the pond. There's a good deal to be said and I think we better hurry up and say it. I got a feeling there ain't a whole lot of time."

Honestly, I don't believe chapter 11 is that terribly important other than the fact that it serves as a transition between chapters 10 and 12.  

Chapter 12, I believe, is one of the most important chapters in the entire book.  In this chapter, Angus explains to Winnie what it really means to be immortal.  

"That's what us Tucks are, Winnie. Stuck so's we can't move on. We ain't part of the wheel no more. Dropped off, Winnie. Left behind. And everywhere around us, things is moving and growing and changing."

Angus explains to Winnie that the Tuck family has been removed from the normal cycle of life and death.  They are stuck.  That doesn't sound too bad until Angus explains that he feels that he is no longer actually living.  He explains that a person can't truly be alive and feel like they are living if death is never a possibility.  

"You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road."

Whoa.  That's deep.  It's clear that Angus wishes that he had never found the spring water, and he desperately needs Winnie to understand.

Chapter 12 also ends with an important detail.  The Tuck's immortal horse has been stolen. 

What is a significant event of the book Tuck Everlasting?

A significant event is when Winnie accidentally discovers the immortal Tucks in the forest, and they have to hold her captive until they explain the situation.

The Tuck family is immortal, but they wish they were not.  Father Tuck even dreams of being in Heaven, instead of immortal.  Mae Tuck explains to Winnie that the secret is not an easy one.

It’s a big, dangerous secret.  We got to have your help to keep it. (p. 43)

Although Jesse sometimes makes light of the problem, the rest of the Tucks have grown tired of being immortal.  They long to be like others.  They do not keep their secret out of selfishness, but out of fear.  They worry what would happen if anyone found out about the spring that makes you immortal.  So they devote their lives to protecting it—forever.

Before meeting the Tucks, Winnie is frustrated with legacy and heritage.  Her family has been on the same patch of land for a long time, and is staunch and respected.  Winnie longs for affection and softness, and finds it with the Tucks, who ironically have lived in the same place for as long and will continue to do so forever.