Death is a Part of Life

Theme, Urashima Taro and the Princess of the Sea

The theme that is shown throughout both Tuck Everlasting, and Come Again in Spring, is that death is a part of life.
For example in Tuck everlasting, Angus and Winnie go out in the boat and talk. Angus explains how they are likes rocks on the side of the road, watching life pass them by as they sit there stuck forever, never dying. He also resolved that the Tuck family is like a boat stuck on a branch in the water, with life flowing by while they watch. This shows that since they don't die, they are not technically part of life.
Urashima Taro and the Princess of the Sea also shows the theme that death is a part of life. For example, in one paragraph Urashima Taro came home 300 years later, and finds out everything he had was gone. He was so upset that he opened the box to see if there was something to bring his family alive again. He knows that death is a part of life, but he still wants to find his family and get back to the Princess. After he opens the box, a purple cloud swirls around him and he changes back to 324 years old and falls to the ground dead.