Character Motivation

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Character Motivations

What are we going to talk about in this comic?

What motivated you to do that?

• Define motivation and character motivation

• Identifying clues to a character's motivation
• Internal & External Motivations
• Questions to ask yourself

Objective: I can analyze how and why individuals and their motivations, events, and ideas develop and interact throughout “The Outsiders”

What is motivation anyway?

Well..Motivation is the reason why people do the things they do. In real life, we may never know why people act in certain ways.

Uh...how about we talk about something else? Like the fact that Character motivation is what makes them think feel or act in a particular way

So, what motivated you to think that you could dance?

When you know the reasons for a character's thoughts, actions, and/or feelings you will understand their motivations

While you may never know the reasons why I danced.

Alright then...

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Character Motivations

What are we going to talk about in this comic?

What motivated you to do that?

• Define motivation and character motivation

• Identifying clues to a character's motivation
• Internal & External Motivations
• Questions to ask yourself

Objective: I can analyze how and why individuals and their motivations, events, and ideas develop and interact throughout “The Outsiders”

what the character says

Vivian's birthday is coming up soon. I want to make her feel special.

So these are clues about a characters motivation?

what the character does

Where have I been all week? I have been babysitting for Ms. Davies.

clues about motivation

Thank you for my birthday gift!

Yes! Exactly! Now that we have an idea about what our character's motivation, we can look for the outcome of their actions

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Character Motivations

What are we going to talk about in this comic?

What motivated you to do that?

• Define motivation and character motivation

• Identifying clues to a character's motivation
• Internal & External Motivations
• Questions to ask yourself

Objective: I can analyze how and why individuals and their motivations, events, and ideas develop and interact throughout “The Outsiders”

Internal MotivationMotivation that comes from within a person

So, what are some examples of motivation?

Or motivation can come from outside a personwhich is called: External Motivation

Here are examples of different forms of motivation

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Character Motivations

What are we going to talk about in this comic?

What motivated you to do that?

• Define motivation and character motivation

• Identifying clues to a character's motivation
• Internal & External Motivations
• Questions to ask yourself

Objective: I can analyze how and why individuals and their motivations, events, and ideas develop and interact throughout “The Outsiders”

Lastly, ask yourself these questions about the characters

• How does the character feel?
• How do other characters feel about the main character?
• What does the character do?
• What does the character say?
• How does the character change the story?

So that is character motivation?

Yep. If you pay attention to these things and ask yourself these questions, you will be a character motivation-identifying pro!