Asked • 07/01/25

What do you think motivates most characters to make big decisions in stories?

Think about the reasons why characters do what they do—are they trying to protect someone, prove something, or survive? For example, why did Jonas leave the community in The Giver? What was really driving that choice?

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Christina M. answered • 12/29/25

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Most characters in literature are motivated to make big decisions by a combination of personal desires, fears, and values. Conflict also shapes character motivation. Internal conflicts, including the desire to do the right thing, and external conflicts, such as danger or pressure from others, force characters to act. Their choices are most often influenced by what they honor most: friendship, family, justice, or personal growth. These motivations develop the plot throughout the story and reveal the character's personality and priorities.

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Anita W. answered • 07/02/25

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In the genre of narration, the all-knowing or omniscient God, the author of the main character's fate or fortune and introduces setting (time and place), conflicts (internal or external or cosmic, who are noble characters or royalty and must decide a nation's fate, like an omniscient God. The tragic king dies, the star-crossed lovers die, the prince must kill his father's murderer, the queen must die, and the villain is slain, and the tragedy ends in death.

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Anita W.

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In college essay, instructors describe the narrative act as the process of telling a story. Characters are essential for a story, as are setting, (time/place), conflict, including external by those forces of violent nature, such as disasters, political strife, civil wars, xenophobia, and assassinations. These conflicts also include the psychic realm , which are those social ills, including problems, such as poverty, global epidemics, fraud, crime, mass murders, and psychological or social issues that are complex questions of morality, integrity, and cosmic, existential issues of religion and societal laws. The best short story grabs the reader by its storyline or plot. The characters are not flat, but keep us focused on their distinct speech, traits, foibles, and actions, these characters provide with depth and universal experience that portray our own truths, and paint humanity's themes, the existential Angst, terror, and moral battles most us face today, especially if we are critical thinkers.
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07/05/25

Anita W.

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In modern literature, most protagonists are forced to act contrary to their moral compass because of external circumstances, hardships, poverty, and demographical location, which is often set. In Jack London's world the man freezes to death because he light a fire under a tree. The snow melts. the water puts out the fire, and the man sees himself dying; it is over for him.
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07/10/25

Anita W.

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