Character Motivation and Actions

Character Motivation and Actions

8th Grade · ELA · 45 min

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Learning Objective

I can analyze how a character's motivations influence their actions, traits, and feelings in a story.

  • 1

    Character perspective is like seeing the world through a character's eyes, understanding how they feel, think, and see things.

  • 2

    Understanding a character's perspective helps us understand why characters do what they do and how they might feel in different situations.

  • 3

    In the story, Timmy was excited and curious, but Max was worried and protective; this shows how characters can have different perspectives about the same situation.