Lesson 8: Why Do We Care?

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What I learned doing this assignment is that there are more ways to create empathy than I had considered.
LIKABILITY/LOVABILITY
A. Other people like or respect the character.–Hero is a competent FBI agent, with a lot of undercover experience.
C. They’re trying to do something good.–Hero is trying to prevent a terrorist event with potentially large casualties.
D. Save the cat — rescue or do something good for someone else.– Hero saves restaurant owner’s kid from armed robber.
F. Kindness.–Hero befriends owner’s kid who has few friends.
G. Good moral decisions and actions. Being on the right side.–Hero puts the lives of those he works with before his own.
EMPATHY / DISTRESS
A. External Character conflicts.– Hero is looked down upon by other restaurant employees because of his low level position
C. Plot intruding on life.–Undercover work has taken an accumulated toll on Hero’s stress levels to a point where he wants a desk job.
D. Moral dilemmas.–Hero may have to chose between the lives of his fellow employees and the kid vs. the lives of those killed in a terrorist attack.

JUSTIFICATION
A.The Hero is the victim of attacks.–Hero is the butt of joke from other employees up the food chain.
D.The Villain or their representatives have trespassed.–