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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
Is it too dark to talk about the fish (who will be the main characters in the story, although not really a personified main character) dying? This story actually has a moral to it: that it's ok to die in pursuit of a dream, that it's ok to try and to fail - where it's not ok is to not try, or to die embittered by the attempts.
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Children, in general, have no problem with stories about characters dying. It's parents and worse, non-parents who think children are made of spun glass, who think they need to be sheltered from "dark ideas," who object to stories with deaths in them.
"He finished what he wanted to, and then he died" is a fine summation for a children's story. So is "he tried his very hardest, and even though he didn't succeed, he got to be his own hero."