This quote helps/relates to people in real life understand that when someone is in a hard place and Doesn’t know what to do anymore, they start to think of different possibilities of what could happen. When someone loses themselves to that point they start to think of themselves to a point of questioning you they are. When they think hard about it hard enough or if it pops in their mind, they find there worth and begin to understand their self more.
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To build motivation for the character gives a backbone to the story and about the Arthur for example if the Arthur got the motivation from seeing a kid take a candy out of a store that motivation for that character would be a bad guy or a heel and or antagonist there for the motivation for a character is very important they reveal it so you can get a bit of a background on the character in more information on the story and the Arthur.
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