Why I think no death in A Sky Beyond The Storm is in unnecessary
Simply because - it’s war. The author said she wanted to write something that’s very close to her life and her people. In war many innocent lives and many people die for no reasons other than it is war. I understand as a story readers will try to look at it methodically or logically but the thing is the whole point of this story involving war is the damage and amount it takes and how in the end wars always take and do more wrong than it does good.
In real life you won’t see the lives lost in a war and think “What the hell? My dad died? This didn’t help improve or further my plot at all! So unnecessary. Totally just for shock value” and that’s the point. Death in war isn’t fair and doesn’t make sense. In fact it never does. It is never justified to take away the life of an innocent person in the name of something you think is bigger or more important than them.
It’s unfair and it’s sad. It’s said the point of wars is to fight for something better and yet it just seemed to make everything else worse instead. I understand since it’s in a book we want to look at it more in a fictional story wise since it is fiction, but also remember the author is a south asian women that did want to talk about the harsh realities of her life and her people through story telling for others to understand. And a part of that is war and with wars comes countless of casualties. Majority of them unjust and loved ones that deserved better