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In class today we learned about the most important aspect to a story and that is the characters. We learned how they can be either active or passive. To be active means to control the situation and to react to what is happening in the story. To be passive is to allow what is happening to continue and not doing a thing about it . The passive character will let others walk all over them and not react. You never want the protagonist to be passive he must always be on the move and handling what has to be done. Think about Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, he didn’t just let the Death star destroy planets, no he went on to study how to be a Jedi and destroyed the Death star. The next thing we learned about is to create motivation for the characters you got to ask why he or she is acting and why is it important to them. To find out why the character is acting the way they are you can use Maslow's hierarchy of needs which from importance start as follows, the need to exist, security, love. Esteem and self. A person isn’t usually willing to help others until they have meet all their personal needs first. The hierarchy will help explain why they are doing what it is that they are doing. This is what we learned in class today.