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Lesson 5
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What I learned in this assignment is the steps, the emotional steps a character goes through.
- What is the Emotional Gradient
you’ll use? Desired - The Emotional Gradients are:
- Excitement
- Emotion: Excitement
- 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. - Challenge: Having to
make a major life-changing decision. - Weakness: Ignorance, Loneliness.
- Doubt
- Emotion: Doubt
- Action: Em doubts whether
Judith will be on board with his plan to marry, be a family. - Challenge: Em is 93,
Judith is 45. - Weakness: Em has money,
so he tries to buy her affection.
- Hope
- Emotion: Hope
- Action: Judith seems to
respond to his ideas. Em begins to create his plan. - Challenge: Judith is
already married. - Weakness: Ignorance. Em
gives Judith the money for the divorce, buys her a ring. He overreacts.
- Discouragement
- Emotion: Discouragement
- 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. - Challenge: Learning that
Judith was never in on the plan all along. - Weakness: Hardheaded,
old age, narcissistic.
- Courage.
- Emotion: Courage
- Action: Em cannot reach
Judith. All his phone calls get disconnected. - Challenge: To learn the
fact that he was conned out of a lot of money. - Weakness: Emotional
abuse. Em fell in love, but he also thought he could buy love, a family
and control everything.
- Triumph.
- Emotion: Triumph
- Action: Em finally goes
through all the grieving stages to accept what Judith did and what he did. - Challenge: To move on.
- Weakness: He’s back to
being alone again. He lays in his bed replaying the events in his mind
over and over again.
- What is the Emotional Gradient
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