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	GREATEST LITERATURE CONTEST #19 Death by literature Who died? Name the character in these GREAT DEATH SCENES. Winners and answers below.
		1	One of the most famous deaths in English lit, this Dickens character went up in flames—spontaneously.
		2	Hemingway's hero sacrificed himself, holding off the Spanish soldiers to let his lover and the republicans get away.
		3	Drawn to a beautiful youth, the writer stayed in the watery Italian city too long and caught a deadly disease.
		4	After winning the woman of his lifelong yearning, the millionaire is shot by a garage keeper in Fitzgerald's novel.
		5	Despite dying on the first page, the English explorer spends most of the novel going on adventures up a long, long river on a planet far, far away.
		6	She's killed by her husband in a jealous rage over her alleged adultery, although she's completely innocent, in Shakespeare's tragedy.
		7	After being chased three times around the city he was defending, the hero stood to face his attacker but his end came due to a chink in his armour.
		8	He foresees his death but doesn't die, at least not yet on this Christmas eve.
		9	She's got an afternoon—her last afternoon—to remember her entire life in the south before, during and after the American Civil War.
		10	The holy man is cut down in church by the king's men in a ponderous drama.
	Winners are being notified now and will be posted here as soon as they are confirmed. Answers: 1. Krook (in Bleak House) 2. Robert Jordan (in For Whom the Bell Tolls) 3. Gustav Aschenbach (in Death in Venice) 4. Jay Gatsby (in The Great Gatsby) 5. Richard Burton (in To Your Scattered Bodies Go) 6. Desdemona (in Othello) 7. Hector (in the Iliad) 8. Ebenezer Scrooge (in A Christmas Carol) 9. Emma Garnet Tate (in On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon) 10. Thomas Becket (in Murder in the Cathedral)