A character is an author's best-friend.

There's one thing about books, and there is another about movies. Movies have characters, played by actors. and Actors live behind the screen. But books... Books have characters, and characters only. And characters are played by the various personalities of the authors, and authors kill to kill their self-flaw.

I am no expert on book reviews but I can assure you I've read enough books to know, maybe not personally, how authors think. Neither am I an expert on movie reviews, but the wide range of media have allowed us to be able to know what happens behind the scenes, and the personal life of actors. Where am I getting at, you ask? This is to movie lovers and book lovers. To people who tend to be affected by such story lines that touch us, inspire us and/or make us cry. Also to authors, directors and book-adapted movies. This isn't a dedication, but an observation. I can easily say that you've been affected by a movie deeply, because I'm sure everyone does. Cry at the end of a movie, or laugh and share with friends how funny the movie is. Then there's the book, where you also cry at the end, or laugh. This time maybe alone, because you can't relate to anyone. Anyway that's not the point.

When there's a movie, especially when it's book-adapted and with a big star, a lot of people tend to watch it as soon as it comes out. Within the movie, then there's a death, let's say the main character's best friend. Everyone will be touched, and cry. Because it's a big star and his/her sidekick playing, the feeling is short-lived considering that, unconsciously, they think to themselves 'oh the star's alright, it's only 'a character' that died. For the people who've read the book, or watched it for the sake of realising the book, it's a different story.

Have you ever had days after reading a book thinking about the death of even a minor character in a book? Ever wondered, even though it's interesting that an author kills off someone, what that character left off in his or her world? I've went on at times thinking to myself "Why, just why? Someone else could have been killed off rather than -this said character-". I kept going on like this for several books before I noticed what authors, consciously or not, are trying to do. This isn't just any character, minor or not. It's the author themselves. In the FAQ sections, when asked why the author killed off the character, he/she would answer that maybe the character was a minor, or it was inspired by another book or a real-life person. That isn't the full story, trust me. The author did so to change the course of what the author wanted to happen back then. I don't have a book I wrote, I give you that, but I have spent my years writing creatively, whether it's school work or not. I have myself cried when I killed my own character, cause that's when I noticed I'm scratching off a part of me.

Why do authors do this? Firstly, we all have flaws, and if you think you're perfect, I just have three words for you, get a life. (There's a two word one, but let's keep it appropriate.) Authors do this to remove such self-flaws. They think that, if they can't get rid of it themselves, then let his creativity scratch it out. (Can I stick with a 'he' author, it's tiring writing 'he/she/them') He would then think to himself, how will I feel good about this? and he'd come up with something like "Okay, I will make this person(the representation of flaw) a really really nice guy with a dark back-ground, one that not even people inside the book knows. Then I'll kill him, because he hides many emotions and secrets that he's causing harm to himself and the -nation-" This is coming from a conscious writer. When the writer is unconsciously writing it, then he'd have a different approach. He would come up with a twisted-personality of a character of somekind, that in his head, he doesn't know where he came from, and dips him inside the book. Here's another situation, the writer is intrigued by his past. His past with a typical lunch-time bully. He felt that he should have done something about it, but since he grew up and is too late, he's kill him off in the book. Despite the possibility of the grown-up bully himself reading it, then the author will put a slight mock. That's how I see authors, a great one, or a minor author, the various genres, they are still alike. At times I fins myself smiling because I know why the author think like this, or what the author is thinking about.