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Even if there's nothing uplifting or redeeming, the protagonist's death will have a positive interpretation - you've thought enough about his life to tell that story. It's not death itself that's a...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T08:34:52Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/35350 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere
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2019-12-08T08:34:52Z (over 4 years ago)
Even if there's nothing uplifting or redeeming, the protagonist's death will have a positive interpretation - you've thought enough about his life to tell that story. It's not death itself that's a problem - it's the idea of a meaningless death, and if your story has brought home the futility of war your character has not died in vain. I've seen boys raised on war films stop while reading _All quiet on the Western front_, and I could see them thinking "Wait, what? You mean it's not all glory? Where's the slow motion bit? That's what war's like? Stuff that." You know your character's going to die, but here's the biggest spoiler of them all : Everyone does, in the end.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2018-04-21T11:28:29Z (about 6 years ago)
Original score: 4