Names

Alison Smith’s memoir- Name All the Animals details the aftermath of the tragic death of her brother, Roy. The memoir highlights Smith’s struggle to define herself in the midst of dealing with her own sense of loss, the pressures of adolescence, and her dysfunctional family. In attempts to define herself, Smith questions several fundamental elements in her life such as her faith and her own sexual identity. Realizing that her answers differed from those around her, Smith had to make a decision…

became reluctant. Whites in the south were use to traditional times, they weren’t too fond of these social changes with African Americans. In Blood Done Sign My Name southerners, especially whites, had negative thoughts in the Civil Rights Movement. They were new to these social changes, therefore didn’t agree in them. Blood Done Sign My Name was is a true story about the 1970 murder of Henry Marrow, a black veteran, and the impact of his death on the town of Oxford, North Carolina. Tim Tyson,…

Written Memoir Not Even My Name by Thea Halo tells the story of a girl whose life was torn apart by war and conflict. The story illustrates the struggles and experiences of Sano Halo (her real name is Themia), who was robbed of a childhood as a result of the genocide of Greeks, Assyrians, and Armenians living in Turkey. This genocide, which was not well known and even denied, occurred during or after World War I. The story is littered with parallels to the Holocaust, most notably—the…

their respected sex. John Steinbeck once wrote, “Names are a great mystery. I've never known whether the name is molded by the child or the child changed to fit the name. But you can be sure of this- whenever a human has a nickname it is a proof that the name given him was wrong.” The name one is given can be compared to ones gender or sex. We are given a name before we are born with no say in the matter, similar to our gender. Just as sometimes a name doesn’t fit with ones psyche, so can…

Hyeonseo Lee with David John’s The Girl with Seven Names recalls Hyeonseo Lee’s life in North Korea and her escape from North Korea. She has seven unique names representing her different identities that are explored in the story. These names are Kim Ji-has, Min-young, Chae Mi-ran, Jang Soon-hyang, Chae In-hee, Park Su -Ja, and Hyeonseo, her current name that she goes by. The Story starts off with Kim Ji-hae’s mother forced to break away from her lover and trapped into future marriage with a man…

Blood Done Sign My Name Fifty-Three years it’s been since the Civil rights Act passed and just forty-seven since a man named Henry Marrow was murdered. People often think how did racial equality raise from segregated Southern towns? Timothy Tyson tells the story of murder that occurred in Oxford, North Carolina. Tyson shows the transformation of a town with a cruel death of a black man, Henry Marrow. Timothy Tyson’s, Blood Done Sign My Name, discussed racial conflict in North Carolina, as a…

IDES PAPER Lea Männel, names will never hurt me by Jaime Adoff, October 14th 2015 In the book "names will never hurt me" written and published by Jaime Adoff in 2004, is a book that shows and describes how life is for different types of high school students. The main characters in the book are Kurt, the "freek" who's hiding inside himself to escape the bullies, Tisha, who's dark skinned but can't decide if she wants to be with white or black people and gets bullied for that, Ryan, the on his…

This poem called “Your Name is X” by Juan Felipe is not an easy poem to understand all together but sentence by sentence I have some clue what he is trying to say. The first sentence would have many meanings such as the hands are trembling because his hands are so tired of physical labor he can 't control the trembling, or maybe it 's because of old age were his hands tremble just because of the age that he has. Reading the other sentences his hands might be trembling due to the fact that he is…

Lan Samantha Chang’s short story, “Water Names,” on the basis is three sister listening to their grandmother retell them an ancient legend or commonly considered a ghost story. The grandmother finishes the story abruptly leaving the children with many questions, as well as the reader. However if the story is read in-depth, one realizes that the interplay between the present setting and actions with the ancient legend holds an underlining meaning—desire in all forms and the disruption between old…

how they think they could succeed in life. Some people think they need to force opportunities to come their way, while others think they should let the opportunities come on their own. Some are optimistic, and some are pessimistic. In the stories “My Name Is Asher Lev” by Aaron Posner and “The Sculptor” by Scott McCloud, we can see how that is true. Asher Lev and David Smith both succeed in their art goals, but Asher’s views on accomplishing them are more optimistic than David’s in terms of his…