Talk:Blackbirds/@comment-25052433-20140806050655/@comment-25340844-20140831000802

"It's clear that he lives, since he is telling the story." Incorrect. The story is not being told from a first-person point of view, i.e. pronouns such as "I," "we," "myself" are not used, while "he," "they," and "himself" are. It's perfectly acceptable for a protagonist to die in a story written in the third-person since the whole thing is being reported by an omniscient narrator.