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Motivation Reaction Units

Motivation Reaction Units. Small-Scale Structure of a Scene. Learning Goals. You will be able to define and understand the terminology presented to you: MRU’s and Small-Scale Scene You will be able to identify its use in a text by highlighting and labeling.

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Motivation Reaction Units

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  1. Motivation Reaction Units Small-Scale Structure of a Scene

  2. Learning Goals • You will be able to define and understand the terminology presented to you: MRU’s and Small-Scale Scene • You will be able to identify its use in a text by highlighting and labeling. • You will be able to employ its usage in (at least) two paragraphs in your excerpt.

  3. What is an MRU? • Motivation (External happenings) • Reaction (Psychological and external reactions)

  4. Motivation “The tiger dropped out of the tree and sprang toward Jack.” • What is the Motivation of the Tiger?

  5. Reaction • This allows the reader to see the internal and external reaction of the POV character; in this case, it’s Jack: “A bolt of raw adrenaline shot through Jack's veins. He jerked his rifle to his shoulder, sighted on the tiger's heart, and squeezed the trigger. "Die, you bastard!"

  6. Three components to Reaction • Feeling: "A bolt of raw adrenaline shot through Jack's veins." You show this first, because it happens almost instantly. • Reflex: "He jerked his rifle to his shoulder . . ." You show this second, as a result of the fear. An instinctive result that requires no conscious thought. • Rational Action and Speech: ". . . sighted on the tiger's heart, and squeezed the trigger. 'Die, you bastard!'" You put this last, when Jack has had time to think and act in a rational way. He pulls the trigger, a rational response to the danger. He speaks, a rational expression of his intense emotional reaction.

  7. Let’s Practice Motivation: With the weights fastened to her ankles, Gwenyth began to sink deeper into the water. Write a Reaction for this scene: • Internal reaction • External Reaction – what do we see her doing? What does she say aloud? Be prepared to share…

  8. Let’s find some MRU’s • Read the short story by ChelliRiddiough • Frame the MRU’s With a Highlighter • And label the following: • Motivation • Reaction • Feeling • Reflex • Rationale

  9. Example • The old ram stands looking down over rockslides, stupidly triumphant. I blink. I stare in horror. “Scat!” I hiss. “Go back to your cave, go back to your cowshed-whatever.” He cocks his head like an elderly, slow-witted king, considers the angles, decides to ignore me. I stamp. I hammer the ground with my sifts. I hurl a skull-size stone at him. – Grendel, John Gardener, page 1

  10. Writer’s Workshop Directions • Start by finding one place in your novel where there is “motivation” – where you show us something as if it were a movie. Revise this section, adding in reactions (feelings, reflex, reaction)

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