Characters Who Can Enable Themselves to Be Reborn, Survive, Those Who Cannot Perish (Essay Sample)

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Characters Who Can Enable Themselves to Be Reborn, Survive, Those Who Cannot Perish 
Introduction
The author of the novel develops the story around the lives of the narrator and the protagonist. Primarily, he utilizes a host of devices in steering the plot forwards. One of such methods is the strategic death of characters. In literature, the idea of death exists on numerous levels. Despite the infinite ways to interpret death in a narrative, authors utilize death to contribute to the emotional effects, plot twists, suspense and build on essential mysteries.
In the Fifth Business, some characters die. Other characters face risky situations as the story unfolds. Characters are symbols or tools in a narrative. In literature, authors are keen to construct storylines in a well-thought-out manner such that the death of a character often has some implication to the theme or narrative.
"The usual cabal killed him: by himself, first of all; by the woman he knew; by the woman he did not know; by the man who granted his inmost wish; and by the inevitable fifth, who was the keeper of his conscience and keeper of the stone." (Robertson, 1970, p.272)
The blatant start has the last significant word to this history, in his rejoinder to David's query concerning who exterminated his father. Authors use death to put across important information or consolidate situations into a predetermined set of events. Two conditions are likely to follow in the event of death. First, the author may intend to emphasize a specific theme. Secondly, the author may realize that a character is no longer beneficial to the plot of the story. In the Fifth Business, characters that survived under seemingly fatal situations did so because they are adaptable to the point that they are "reborn." Alternatively, the author used such circumstances to bring into perspective some extraordinary attributes of other characters. 
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