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ELA Drills, Beginner: Textual Analysis 2. Which choice best describes Heath's motivation in this passage?
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- 00:04
And here's your shmoop du jour brought to
- 00:05
you by movie dates they're the best way to get to know someone while you both [Boy and Girl walk into movie theater]
- 00:10
sit silently in the dark not looking at each other or saying anything all right
- 00:13
check out the following short story Keith had a crush on Kelly he wanted to
- 00:16
go to the movies with Kelly but he knew that she really wanted to go with his
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- 00:19
friend George so instead of asking Kelly to the movies himself, he told Kelly that
- 00:23
George was looking for someone to go with what an emotional roller coaster [Rollercoaster going by]
- 00:26
alright here's our question which of the following best describes Keith's
- 00:30
motivation in this passage and here are potential answers, alright.....
- 00:36
... So we know that a character's motivation is the reason
- 00:42
they act a certain way if we're trying to figure out Heath's motivation we need [Heath, Kelly and George stood together]
- 00:45
to take a look at what's going on inside of his head without surgical tools..
- 00:49
put the bone cutter down there people so what Heath thinking about..
- 00:54
well, first sentence tells us that he probably does affair a bit of thinking
- 00:56
about Kelly's seen as he has a crush on her which leads us to the next thing we
- 01:00
learned about his thought process he wanted to go to the movies with Kelly so [Heath stood alone at the movies]
- 01:04
far it seems like Heath might be motivated to ask Kelly out to the movies
- 01:08
but alas the plot thickens well as we read on we see that Heath also knows
- 01:12
that Kelly really wanted to go with his friend George so we have a pretty good [Heath and Kelly together]
- 01:16
idea what's in Heath's head before he acts on the one hand he's really into Kelly
- 01:20
and wants to ask her out to the movies but on the other hand he also knows that
- 01:23
Kelly's actually into George so when Heath tells Kelly that George was looking for
- 01:27
someone to go to the movies with, well it was probably to make her happy since
- 01:30
that's exactly what she wanted and he knows that well looking at our options [Kelly and George walk away from Heath]
- 01:34
that motivation lines up perfectly with D) Heath wants Kelly to be happy
- 01:38
so that's our answer Heath might not get a date based on his actions but he did
- 01:42
make someone else happy and that means he probably deserves a lot of free [Popcorn buries Heath at the movies]
- 01:45
popcorn yeah
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