GameObject.Find() always returns null C#

Questions & Answers
1

I am very noob at unity and was trying to make a script where the player dies everytime it touches a certain object. However, in the program, the variable “player” always returns a value of null. The game object “Character” is independent of the object to which this script is attached. Please excuse if this is an extremely basic question, I have searched around and could not find solutions which work.

“Character” is active and is neither a parent nor a child of the object.

GameObject player;

void Start () {
	GameObject player = GameObject.Find ("Character");
}


void Update () {
	Debug.Log (player);
}

void OnCollisionEnter(Collision col){
	if (col.gameObject.name == "Character") {
		player.GetComponent<PlayerScript>().die ();
	}
}
2

void Start () {
player = GameObject.Find (“Character”);
}

No need for the GameObject it’s declared above.
You should have a Warning :
Assets/YourScript.cs(6,20): warning CS0649: Field YourScript.player' is never assigned to, and will always have its default value null’