November 29

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November 29
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em0tion

• How important is emotion to characters?
• How important are ideas?
• What makes a character real?

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anger

• How does it look? Sound? Feel?
• Angry at a parent
• Angry at a girl/boy friend
• Angry at a best friend
• Angry at a car that cut you off
• Angry at a teacher
• Angry at yourself

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examples

• 1.Bill was as mad as a hornet.
• 2.
• You are an idiot! he yelled.
• so are you! she yelled back.
• I hate you! he screamed at her as she got in
  the car.
• I despise you! she shouted through the glass.

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More examples

• Paul punches him hard in the chest. Jake
  counters with a left, then right to the jaw.
  Paul reels awkwardly, knocking over the chair.
  He regroups and lunges at Jake catching him
  squarely in the gut

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• Im Push the bully, and what I hate are new kids
  and sissies, dumb kids and smart kids, rich kids,
  poor kids, kids who wear glasses, talk funny,
  show off, patrol boys and wise guys and kids who
  pass pencils and water the plants- and cripples,
  especially cripples. I love nobody loved. (A
  Poetics for Bullies)

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• My mother slammed down the phone. He cant even
  die when he wants to! she cried. Even death
  comes second to Mama! What are they afraid of,
  the shock will kill her? Nothing can kill her.
  Shes indestructible! A stake through the heart
  couldnt kill her!

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anger

• Write a page that shows anger in a character(s)
  dont use the words angry, hate, mad, furious,
  irritated infuriated, enraged, annoyed.dont say
  it show it
• Remember emotions often happen in a mixed state
  you can be angry and disappointed, angry and
  frustrated, angry and impatientmake it real.