Having one or both parents death, even if both are alive is very common that one or both end up dead because the author doesn’t know how to create another conflict

I was 11 when u read 100 years of solitude, at the time it felt like a very heavy book for me and I didn’t quite catch everything that was happening, I read it again in highschool and I was able to fully appreciate it

Hunger Games and Twilight redefined the YA genre and established aspects that are now pretty common in that genre