Ruth Harrigan's Blog - Posts Tagged "characters"
When a Fictional Character Dies
I was going through my usual morning routine of checking the news online, which led to clicking on even more links to tangential things, which led to this: a crying pillow for when fictional characters die: http://www.lookhuman.com/design/60273...
It reminded me of times when my reading was interrupted and someone would find me crying at the end, or even in the middle of a book, when a character was "written out" (as we now say about TV series). But I've always thought about it as more than that - the death of a character, if a reader is very involved in a book, can hit hard for a book we feel emotionally invested in.
The bright side is I count myself lucky to have found so many great works of fiction that drew me in enough to have that reaction.
It reminded me of times when my reading was interrupted and someone would find me crying at the end, or even in the middle of a book, when a character was "written out" (as we now say about TV series). But I've always thought about it as more than that - the death of a character, if a reader is very involved in a book, can hit hard for a book we feel emotionally invested in.
The bright side is I count myself lucky to have found so many great works of fiction that drew me in enough to have that reaction.
