Most tragic deaths in literature?

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Reply 20

-Invidious-

Original post by CherryCherryBoomBoom

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

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Great story and series nevertheless :yep:

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Reply 21

Comeheretellme

The Death of Edmund 'Bunny' Corcorran in Donna Tart's 'The Secret History'. Tragic.

Reply 22

KJane

Cathy or Healthcliff in Wuthering heights, The father in 'The Road', Time traveler's wife, My sister's keeper. Prim from Hunger games, Othello and Romeo and Juliet.

Reply 23

Reminisce

The Time Traveler's Wife

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Reply 24

orla712

Original post by Reminisce

Anne Of Green Gables

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Reply 25

thebearsarecomingg

'Lucas' by Kevin Brooks :cry2:

Oh and 'Before I Die' by Jenny Downham, that had me weeping buckets.

Reply 26

Black Mammoth

Lennie in Of Mice And Men did it for me.

Reply 27

f.chowdhury

In Noughts and Crosses, Cal dies and i cried :frown:

Lennie, in Of Mice and Men

All he wanted to do was tend the rabbits :'(

Heathcliff

Original post by Sorani

Of Mice and Men. All he wanted was to pet those soft rabbits :frown:

Original post by gingerrama

I've said it before and I'll say it again, The Book Thief

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Those were the two that first sprang to my mind.

I hardly ever cry at books but those two were just... :cry2:

Reply 30

Dogatonic

Tess from Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Reply 31

username196545

Noughts and Crosses.

I was only about 15 and I sobbed.

Reply 32

keira

Dumbledore you heartless ****ers

Reply 33

-honeybee-

Original post by Dogatonic

Tess from Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

This!

Reply 34

TotoMimo

A Kestrel for a Knave. It was literally the death of a young delinquent's saving grace, at the hands of his delinquent brother's jealousy.

Reply 35

darkred

WHY DID I CLICK THE SPOILERS, OH WHY!?

Dumbledore. :moon:

Reply 36

Lily Academia

Original post by Ulo

I was like "WHOOO!" when Bob died. Though I did feel sorry for him. Anyhoo, Ikemefuna in Things Fall Apart. Both Arthur Jarvis and Absalom Kumalo in Cry, the Beloved Country. Helen Burns in Jane Eyre. Anthills of the Savannah. Oh, and I read The Diary of Anne Frank when I was really young, not knowing that she died at the end of it all (not a bright child) - I was distraught for days!

I HAVE NEVER MET ANYONE WHO HAS READ THIS BOOK! (Aside from my English class :tongue:

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But

... oh Okonkwo, you hubris-driven man too afraid of failure...

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Reply 37

Molokai

Gavroche in Les Miserables

As others have said, Of Mice and Men and Billy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Robin in Tomorrow When the War Began. Corrie and Chris I just felt sad, Robin I cried buckets

And Harry Potter, of course. Dobby, Fred, Dumbledore......