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Character Motivation. motivation: is the stated or implied reason behind a character's behavior. Character Motivation. People behave the way they do for a reason. To discover a character’s motivation, ask why that character behaves in a certain way . Think about your own life:
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Character Motivation motivation: is the stated or implied reason behind a character's behavior.
Character Motivation People behave the way they do for a reason. To discover a character’s motivation, ask why that character behaves in a certain way. Think about your own life: I brushed my teeth this morning. My motivation was to avoid getting cavities and having to experience pain from a toothache or from the dentist.
Character Motivation • writers can directly state a character’s motivation, or they can imply it. • To imply motives, writers introduce clues that help readers to piece together, or infer, the reasons behind the character’s behavior
What is the reason for the behavior of Rosie’s father? Rosie’s mother, had taken up writing poetry and had entered a poetry contest. At the home of friends, Rosie’s mother spent all her time talking about poetry. Rosie’s father, frustrated, abruptly announced that it was time to go home. When Rosie’s aunt and uncle visited, her mother obsessed about the contest, so Rosie’s father left the house. Finally, when Rosie’s mother won the contest, her father’s reaction was, “Ha, your mother’s crazy!”
in this passagetwo young ladies, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, are leaving boarding school.As their carriage pulls away, Becky, in an act of defiance, tosses the dictionary theschool had given her back at the headmistress, Miss Pinkerton. from Vanity Fair W.H. Thackeray “How could you do so, Rebecca?” at last she [Amelia] said, after a pause. “Why, do you think Miss Pinkerton1 will come out and order me back to the black-hole?” said Rebecca laughing. “No: but—” “I hate the whole house,"2 continued Miss Sharp in a fury. “I hope I may neverset eyes on it again. I wish it were in the bottom of the Thames,3 I do; and if MissPinkerton were there, I wouldn't pick her out, that I wouldn't. O how I should liketo see her floating in the water yonder, turban and all, with her train streaming afterher, and her nose like the beak of a wherry."4 “Hush!” cried Miss Sedley. 1. Miss Pinkerton: the headmistress at the school 2. house: school 3. Thames: the river that flows through London 4. wherry: sailing barge
