Day 8 Assignments

[Judith Resell]

My main character has, I think, many bases for empathy. She is respected by people in her town, her beloved husband dies suddenly, she wants only to be left in peace to mourn him but her village is attacked. Her choice to risk her life to save the village from a powerful man is both brave and admirable. Her mission also becomes her grieving process and a way to begin to live again without her husband.

[Dawn Rochelle]

Dawn’s Likability/Empathy/Justification

What I learned doing this assignment is how to get an audience to care about my hero.

LIKABILITY/LOVABILITY

· Committed to protecting her country.

· Committed to finding out what happened to her parents even though no one will help her.

· New partner is first to show any support in her search for answers. She is grateful and shows gratitude by opening up to him – being funny, witty, vulnerable.

· She is deeply wounded by the loss of her family but grows strong and obtains skills that will help her find the truth.

· She takes care not to endanger civilians – protecting kids, evacuating building when attacked – while risking her own safety and possibility of finding the truth.

EMPATHY/DISTRESS

· Loses family violently. Kidnapped.

· On her own until new partner shows up.

· Framed as traitor. No one to trust anymore. Betrayed by father figure.

· Losing physical abilities and unable to protect herself as usual. Must be vulnerable and accept help from partner.

· Find truth at all costs – even her own life.

JUSTIFICATION

· Villain destroys her family and kidnaps her.

· Forced to search for truth on her own.

· Villain has isolated her until new partner shows up.

· Villain betrays and tries to frame and capture/kill her.

· Being chased by special forces agents.

[Kay Hones]

#8. Kay’s Likability/Empathy/Justification

“What I learned doing this assignment is that Lee is essential catalyst for team”

LIKABILITY/LOVABILITY for Lee

A. Lee is
favorite of many people both work & socially & well respected
professionally.
B. Lee
loves her rescue dog Phoebe (& she loves learning new things, then sharing
with others)
C. Lee is trying to take action on social
issues.
D. She
adopted Phoebe who was an injured dog that was scheduled to be put down.
E. Lee
has sarcastic & witty sense of
humor.
F. Lee leads
with kindness.
G. Lee is physically
frail but is determined to help change social issues.

EMPATHY / DISTRESS

A. Lee
became very sick, suffers from impaired vision & difficult mobility.
B. Lee get
upset over physical inabilities
C. Drugs are
a to edged sword for health & for addiction.
D. Moral
dilemmas: how to change without violence & money.
E. Lee
would never harm someone physically even if attacked.
F. <s>Wound
attacked</s>.

JUSTIFICATION

A. Generations
of family members have had a variety of addictions, worst was alcohol
until heroin & fentanyl.

· B. <s>Threatened by others</s>.

· C. <s>The Hero is the victim of attacks</s>.

· D. Lee has suffered a major loss when friend died of fentanyl.

· E. The Villain heartlessly seeks wealth over human life.

[Dexter Miller]

(Dexter Miller) – Likability/Empathy/Justification

I learned to refine my story and get more detailed with the actions of my characters and their mission.

ASSIGNMENT #8:

LIKABILITY/LOVABILITY

A. She is liked on her job, loved by her family and friends, and heard of her husband’s death.

B. We see her breakdown and cry over the news of her husband’s death.

C. She reactivates her special service badge and is put into the act of being the scientist to find answers.

D. She helps a struggling scientist and they bond.

E. Her husband leaves her a card that has a hand-drawn heart on it for her.

F. Kindness. She shows her daughter the heart as they both smile and reminisce.

G. She starts out on her mission.

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A. She is too far away to help save her husband.

B. She was very much in love and is having a very hard time emotionally, crying and screaming.

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C. she is looking at the hand-drawn heart-shaped card from her husband when she is attacked and kills them.

D. She’s attacked again and kills them all as she tries to find answers to her husband’s death.

E. We see her and her daughter looking at the card sobbing together.

F. She’s in a church crying to her Pastor as she holds the card and his picture.

JUSTIFICATION

A. She’s attacked again and kills them as we see her very emotionally charged and upset.

B. Hall is at his office gloating with his pompous ego as Penny calls and sets up a secret meeting.

C. They kidnap her daughter right before the meeting. She is set up to take the fall for experiments gone wrong to make her stop investigating.

D. She finds out her daughter has been kidnapped and she needs to meet with Hall. She finds out another scientist has died from this virus.

E. Penny is going to get her daughter and risk everything by getting caught and or killed.

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