• John P. Hallar

    Member
    November 29, 2023 at 1:56 pm

    What I learned in this assignment is the steps, the emotional steps a character goes through.

    1. What is the Emotional Gradient
      you’ll use? Desired
    2. The Emotional Gradients are:
    1. Excitement
    1. Emotion: Excitement
    2. Action: Em meets Judith.
      He immediately attaches to her, falls in love, and creates a plan in his
      mind for how the future will play out and how to buy a family.
    3. Challenge: Having to
      make a major life-changing decision.
    4. Weakness: Ignorance, Loneliness.
  • Doubt
    1. Emotion: Doubt
    2. Action: Em doubts whether
      Judith will be on board with his plan to marry, be a family.
    3. Challenge: Em is 93,
      Judith is 45.
    4. Weakness: Em has money,
      so he tries to buy her affection.
  • Hope
    1. Emotion: Hope
    2. Action: Judith seems to
      respond to his ideas. Em begins to create his plan.
    3. Challenge: Judith is
      already married.
    4. Weakness: Ignorance. Em
      gives Judith the money for the divorce, buys her a ring. He overreacts.
  • Discouragement
    1. Emotion: Discouragement
    2. Action: Judith doesn’t
      go on a scheduled trip they had planned. Em later finds out Judith never
      filed for a divorce. Em gives her one last sum of money for rent, car
      payment then she blocks his number cutting him off cold turkey.
    3. Challenge: Learning that
      Judith was never in on the plan all along.
    4. Weakness: Hardheaded,
      old age, narcissistic.
  • Courage.
    1. Emotion: Courage
    2. Action: Em cannot reach
      Judith. All his phone calls get disconnected.
    3. Challenge: To learn the
      fact that he was conned out of a lot of money.
    4. Weakness: Emotional
      abuse. Em fell in love, but he also thought he could buy love, a family
      and control everything.
  • Triumph.
    1. Emotion: Triumph
    2. Action: Em finally goes
      through all the grieving stages to accept what Judith did and what he did.
    3. Challenge: To move on.
    4. Weakness: He’s back to
      being alone again. He lays in his bed replaying the events in his mind
      over and over again.

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