1 Samuel 25:28 "I
pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the Lord will certainly
make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the Lord,
and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days."
Readers won’t tolerate
intervention on behalf of the protagonist. They don’t want to see the
protagonist rescued; they want to see how the protagonist will get out of his
own fix.
But there are other kinds
of intervention readers might accept. A mentor character might advise a
heroine she is about to make a grave mistake and she either listens or ignores
the sage advice.
If intervention is
foreshadowed correctly, it might be tolerated. The calvary could come to the
rescue at the last minute, if the characters have been expecting them all
along.
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