Irony In Melissa Faebos's Call My Name

Names are identities. Whether on the internet succeeding a Commercial At, a television screen, or on top of a text messaging thread. It seems, as it should, that our names have meaning, regardless of accuracy or desire. In Melissa Faebos’s book Abandon Me she illustrates a grand irony in her chapter “Call My Name”, to have a name mean one thing but the adverse be your reality. Within my own life, I’ve set goals, maintained demeanors, and pushed the status quo all in the pursuit that one day my name will be presidential. However, the fear arises that I too may become a grand irony. At birth, born to a single mother, I was given the name Brodie Samuel Pieter Sisk. Samuel meaning “name of God”, Pieter meaning “a rock”. Brodie meaning “a complete …show more content…
My interpretation of her realization is that although my name may not mean exactly what I want it to, I have the capacity to create meaning myself. With that said, a crucial, all encompassing, and all defining question comes to fruition. Who will Samuel Van Motman be? Although I can not be certain of exactly what my future will hold, I am confident that my determination will prevail. It’s important, I feel as Melissa Faebos puts it, to remember that “ All books held words, but the dictionary was words” and to continue to chose to be a dictionary rather than a book. To be rather than to have. Never belonging to the elite, even if considered to be one, but always fighting for common good. However, I must be honest with you. My name is not Samuel Van Motman. My name is Samuel Brodie Pieter Van Motman. Samuel meaning “name of God”, Brodie meaning “a complete failure; flop”, Pieter meaning “a rock” Van Motman having no definition. Now whether or not this was another fool-proof plan I was the architect of or just a sentimental coincidence. I can say for certain that If I am not another grand irony, I will continue to give great meaning to my name. Likewise, if I am a grand irony, my future looks