The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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'The Return Of The King' has a conclusion.
Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.
What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.
I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.
A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.
A story is built on characters and reasons.
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.
Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.