Foster points out that Hectors charioteer's rarely lost five lines without being killed, throughout the story he yes through many. Many heroes companions have a surrogate fate that befalls them because they are close to said hero. To hold an audiences attention their needs to be quests, marriage, birth, killing , and death with theses a characters must grow , develop, learn , and mature. A single mans action can affect thousands , for examples Achilles stolen war bride leads to his anger towards the Greek leader and those outside his circle . To stop Achilles the Greek leader Agamemnon pleads to return everything including the war bride , even his friends plead for him to take it. Achilles is only angered so his friend Patroclus takes his armor and pretends to be him which is a fatal mistake. In many story's they can't kill the hero so being a pal of the hero requires death when the time comes. the characters are products of both the writers and readers imagination, these two forces ,make a character. The focus of the story is fully made, so where does the attention lie? A hero will make mistakes and his friends may pay for it.
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