Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel - Tita's lover dies after they have made love. She eats the candles to fill herself with the fire she associates with her lover.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Grandma (Ursula Iguaran) marks each of her 17 Aureliano grandsons with a mysterious indelible Ash Wednesday cross on their foreheads as baptism and acceptance to the family. Later, all the 17 Aurelianos were shot on the head through the cross.
Night by Elie Weisel - prisoner Jews were forced to run in falling snow, transfering from one camp to the next. A father drops on the ground and a son looks back but runs onward lest the soldiers shoot him. Later, crumbs of bread were given out and another father and son scrambled over a piece and ate it immediately, not thinking of the other. The shame was overshadowed by pure hunger.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - Liesel survives an air raid only to find out she lost her foster parents and her beloved Rudy. She kisses the boy for the last time, memorizing his lemon-colored hair while Death carries each soul in the massacre.
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice - Mary finally tells Yeshua the secret of his birth. He later prays to God, asking why him? How could he live after King Herod killed all the newborn, when he feels he is no better than those who have died for him?
hmmm... why is it that death seems to be a common thread in my unforgettables?
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