I guess it isn't always in the last book a favourite character dies, but whatever!
Why in the last book of a series does author’s tend to kill off your favourite characters? Is it because in real life there isn’t true happy endings and that if there was that when there is happy endings there is always some sort of pain endured to get there? Maybe the author is trying to tell us a life lesson of some sort. That life isn’t all those Disney movies make it out to be, always a happy ending. Yes, people can have happy endings; it just takes more than just waking up from a kiss and living happily ever after with a prince.
You’re probably thinking in your head ‘But this isn’t true for all books Shannon!’
I know! And I’m getting to that! Gosh!!!
Depending on the types of books you read, this would apply to you. If the book series is about sports or is more for kids, there probably wouldn’t be any favourite characters that get killed off. So to those who were thinking the previous—that not all book series end with a favourite character dying, I’m going to change my earlier question. Why do most fiction books and some nonfiction books end a series with one of your favourite characters dying?
(Oh by the way...SPOILER ALERTS!! If you haven’t read Mockingjay you may want to stop reading the paragraph before I say ‘For example’. Same goes to those who have, for some odd reason, not read and or seen Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Just read to there and skip to the last paragraph if you don’t want to know anything about the books because you are going to read either one. If you don’t care...well then keep reading, but I must say YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!)
Maybe it’s because the author needs to show how bad the antagonist is and that the protagonist has to stop it as soon as possible. For example, in two of my favourite book series last book they kill of my favourite fictional characters. In the Hunger Games series, Finnick Odair dies on their fight to bring down President Snow in Mocking Jay and primrose died because of
an unexpected air raid (?). In Harry Potter and the deathly hallows, Fred Wesley dies in the battle of Hogwarts as they fight against Voldemort and his Deatheaters.
If this is true—then why didn’t they kill them off earlier? It could have saved us from feeling depressed from the characters death because we didn’t get attached to them like we did. I guess you can see why they had to. Writers want people to feel the emotions their characters feel, to move you and get the same hatred for the antagonist that the main character feels. I know
for a fact that when Peeta got high jacked and when Finnick died, I wasn’t the only one who wanted to jump into the book and kill President Snow their self for causing all the pain to Katniss!
So, to sum up: authors kill off these characters to either make you connect with the book emotionally or maybe to give us a life lesson. One I really don`t appreciate.
Why in the last book of a series does author’s tend to kill off your favourite characters? Is it because in real life there isn’t true happy endings and that if there was that when there is happy endings there is always some sort of pain endured to get there? Maybe the author is trying to tell us a life lesson of some sort. That life isn’t all those Disney movies make it out to be, always a happy ending. Yes, people can have happy endings; it just takes more than just waking up from a kiss and living happily ever after with a prince.
You’re probably thinking in your head ‘But this isn’t true for all books Shannon!’
I know! And I’m getting to that! Gosh!!!
Depending on the types of books you read, this would apply to you. If the book series is about sports or is more for kids, there probably wouldn’t be any favourite characters that get killed off. So to those who were thinking the previous—that not all book series end with a favourite character dying, I’m going to change my earlier question. Why do most fiction books and some nonfiction books end a series with one of your favourite characters dying?
(Oh by the way...SPOILER ALERTS!! If you haven’t read Mockingjay you may want to stop reading the paragraph before I say ‘For example’. Same goes to those who have, for some odd reason, not read and or seen Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Just read to there and skip to the last paragraph if you don’t want to know anything about the books because you are going to read either one. If you don’t care...well then keep reading, but I must say YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!)
Maybe it’s because the author needs to show how bad the antagonist is and that the protagonist has to stop it as soon as possible. For example, in two of my favourite book series last book they kill of my favourite fictional characters. In the Hunger Games series, Finnick Odair dies on their fight to bring down President Snow in Mocking Jay and primrose died because of
an unexpected air raid (?). In Harry Potter and the deathly hallows, Fred Wesley dies in the battle of Hogwarts as they fight against Voldemort and his Deatheaters.
If this is true—then why didn’t they kill them off earlier? It could have saved us from feeling depressed from the characters death because we didn’t get attached to them like we did. I guess you can see why they had to. Writers want people to feel the emotions their characters feel, to move you and get the same hatred for the antagonist that the main character feels. I know
for a fact that when Peeta got high jacked and when Finnick died, I wasn’t the only one who wanted to jump into the book and kill President Snow their self for causing all the pain to Katniss!
So, to sum up: authors kill off these characters to either make you connect with the book emotionally or maybe to give us a life lesson. One I really don`t appreciate.
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