Grab Bag
This type of motivation comes from outside a character and may include conflict, setting, society, or other people that affect their choices.
External Factor
This strong, caring coffeehouse worker helps Mattie survive the yellow fever epidemic and later becomes like family to her.
Eliza
This main character begins to question his community after being selected as the new Receiver of Memory.
Jonas
This famous actor assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre
Booth
This person was a dictator in Germany who hated Jewish people and committed genocide.
Adolf Hitler
A character’s emotions, fears, motivations, and personal beliefs are examples of this type of motivation.
Internal Factor
This determined teenage protagonist grows from being immature and lazy into a responsible young woman during the epidemic.
Mattie Cook
Jonas’s childhood friend is assigned the job of Assistant Director of Recreation because of his energetic personality.
Asher
This Secretary of State and his family were attacked in his home by Lewis Powell while recovering from a carriage accident.
Seward
This journalist and activist fought against lynching and worked to expose racial injustice in America.
Ida B. Wells
This term is when people show compassion for others and look out for humankind.
humanity
This person is very severe, runs the family coffeehouse, and becomes sick with yellow fever.
Mother Lucille Cook
This wise old man transfers memories of pain, love, war, and joy to Jonas.
The Giver
This person was stabbed in Lincoln's booth at Ford's theatre while trying to stop Booth during the assassination.
Major Henry Rathbone
This South African leader spent 27 years in prison before helping end apartheid.
Nelson Mandela
During the yellow fever epidemic in Fever 1793, this Philadelphia organization helped care for the sick and bury the dead.
Free African Society
Mattie develops romantic feelings for this person who is a painter’s apprentice.
Nathaniel Benson
This character works as a Nurturer and takes home Gabriel to see if he can improve before he sentenced to be released.
Father
This conspirator was supposed to stand watch for Powell but abandoned him in D.C. He Then escaped with Booth to the countryside and later surrendered to Union soldiers.
Herold
This 7 foot tall protagonist from a Kurt Vonnegut short story was imprisoned for trying to overthrow a government that enforced absolute equality by handicapping the gifted in a futuristic society.
Harrison Bergeron
This is a type of society that appears perfect but limits freedom and individuality.
Dystopian society
Mattie rescues this orphaned little girl and chooses to care for her after the epidemic.
Nell
Jonas has feelings for this person whose red hair stands out to him.
Fiona
After Booth broke his leg, this person treated him and became linked to the conspiracy.
Dr. Samuel Mudd
This person served as Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of War and led the search for Booth after the assassination. Vice President Andrew Johnson was happy to relinquish duties over to him.
Stanton