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ELA Drills, Beginner: Textual Analysis 2. Which choice best describes Heath's motivation in this passage?

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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to

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you by movie dates they're the best way to get to know someone while you both [Boy and Girl walk into movie theater]

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sit silently in the dark not looking at each other or saying anything all right

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check out the following short story Keith had a crush on Kelly he wanted to

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go to the movies with Kelly but he knew that she really wanted to go with his

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friend George so instead of asking Kelly to the movies himself, he told Kelly that

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George was looking for someone to go with what an emotional roller coaster [Rollercoaster going by]

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alright here's our question which of the following best describes Keith's

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motivation in this passage and here are potential answers, alright.....

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... So we know that a character's motivation is the reason

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they act a certain way if we're trying to figure out Heath's motivation we need [Heath, Kelly and George stood together]

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to take a look at what's going on inside of his head without surgical tools..

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put the bone cutter down there people so what Heath thinking about..

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well, first sentence tells us that he probably does affair a bit of thinking

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about Kelly's seen as he has a crush on her which leads us to the next thing we

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learned about his thought process he wanted to go to the movies with Kelly so [Heath stood alone at the movies]

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far it seems like Heath might be motivated to ask Kelly out to the movies

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but alas the plot thickens well as we read on we see that Heath also knows

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that Kelly really wanted to go with his friend George so we have a pretty good [Heath and Kelly together]

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idea what's in Heath's head before he acts on the one hand he's really into Kelly

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and wants to ask her out to the movies but on the other hand he also knows that

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Kelly's actually into George so when Heath tells Kelly that George was looking for

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someone to go to the movies with, well it was probably to make her happy since

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that's exactly what she wanted and he knows that well looking at our options [Kelly and George walk away from Heath]

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that motivation lines up perfectly with D) Heath wants Kelly to be happy

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so that's our answer Heath might not get a date based on his actions but he did

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make someone else happy and that means he probably deserves a lot of free [Popcorn buries Heath at the movies]

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popcorn yeah

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