Life and Death
"Next to our morality, which comes to great and small equally, all the differences in our lives are mere surface details" (Foster 14).
Foster points this out to make us realize that all people's lives follow the same basic pattern: we are born, we live, and we die. The only thing that really changes is how we live. In the same way, when creating characters in a novel, we first create them to serve a purpose. The details are up to us. Do we want them to be good? To be happy? Moral? Immoral? Well-Liked? Oppressed? But despite all of our planning, each story generally has characters moving through time, and their lives often follow patterns.
The author points out that death and life are all things we share, and sometimes it takes a good story or character to make us realize that fact.
Foster points this out to make us realize that all people's lives follow the same basic pattern: we are born, we live, and we die. The only thing that really changes is how we live. In the same way, when creating characters in a novel, we first create them to serve a purpose. The details are up to us. Do we want them to be good? To be happy? Moral? Immoral? Well-Liked? Oppressed? But despite all of our planning, each story generally has characters moving through time, and their lives often follow patterns.
The author points out that death and life are all things we share, and sometimes it takes a good story or character to make us realize that fact.
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