How To Read Literature Like A Professor Revised Edition By Thomas C. Foster

The show must go on, or at least the hero has to live until the end so the readers have a story to finish. In How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition by Thomas C. Foster, Foster explains why it’s never a good idea to be near the hero much less be best friends with the hero because the hero will be the one to survive the story. The surrounding characters are free game for the writer to do what they please, which sometimes involves killing them off. Disposing of characters close to the hero prompts action from the hero and creates a deeper plot within the story.
In the third book of The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins, Readers experience many heartbreaking deaths. One of the most noteworthy losses was the