In a literary analysis, literary characters are referred to in the present tense
a) in order to them seem more realistic
b) because they always exist within the literary work
c) so that the author can keep them alive eternally
d) only when the story takes place in the present

B because they always exist within the literary work :)

his humanity shines from every page as he bears witness to the tragedy which befell the jewish race at the hands of the nazis. wiesel was a romanian-born jew whose home town of sighet was occupied by the hungarians for most of the second world war. in may 1944, all the jews in the area were forced into cattle wagons and transported to auschwitz.

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