“How could I introduce them to my friends? These relatives had such complicated names.... ,”(5) Similarly to Amy JUlia learns a valuable life lesson to accept who you are and although you can change your name you can't change who you are and where you come
‘From He to She in First Grade’ Summary & Response In Laurie Frankel's story, she observes the journey her first grader takes as a transitioning male to female, at home and in school; and she accepts her child throughout. Her daughter communicates that she wants to wear feminine clothing and instead of ignoring her feelings and moving on, her parents accept her decision and tell her that as long as she is comfortable, it doesn’t matter what she wears. Her transition starts with showing her parents she enjoys wearing a sparkly green dress that was part of a puppet theater present gifted to her. She doesn’t take the dress off and starts to wear other stereotypical female things such as: hair clips, heels, skirts and dresses.
Thought out a persons ever changing life, the one thing that is always consistent is their name. However, sometimes a persons identity will change so much that their own name seems foreign when speaking it out loud. This creates the need for a new name to match a new identity. Kingsolvers The Bean Trees and Lena Coakley’s Mirror Image both apply characterization, conflict, and symbolism to show how identity changes with names and labels.
Analyzation of The Birth Mark Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birth Mark” shows readers the foolishness and selfishness of trying to create a perfect being and defying our creator. Nathaniel shows an example of this act by publishing this story of Aylmer and his non-perfect wife, who has a birth mark in the shape of a hand on her cheek. Aylmer is so disgusted with this mark that he soon begins to use science to take care of the problem. Throughout “The Birth Mark” Hawthorne performs different symbols that indicate Aylmer is just a human being and challenging God to make a perfect human will always lead to death.
My first name Nathan ranks thirty-eighth in the United States and thirteenth in Canada, but that is low in relation to crowning my first name to be the most popular in France (Campbell). I would have certainly not known my name to be so popular in a different country. Since I was born, I have been alien to knowledge of how I came to have my name, how popular it was, and what it meant because of accepting it without any thought. I never thought about how much my name represents who I am and how much it affects me. I wanted to figure out where my name came from; therefore, I found primary research useful by interviewing my mother about family surname history.
In my sequel to the short story, "Boys and Girls," I chose to retell the same story but changed the narrating voice. This minute change was one that had to be made for the reader to comprehend the story fully. When given a story called Boys and Girls, you would expect to get a narration and description of the quality of life from both, a boy and a girl, but in the original, we never get to see things from the male’s perspective. The clarity it produces is why I made the decision to alter the voice as it paints a full picture and allows for the audience to see the glaring contrast between the genders. In "Boys and Girls", we see how her parents continually push her away from participating in the masculine activities she enjoys but in my sequel,
Your name is who you are; it’s the essence of your being. You and your name will go through thick and thin, young and old, and life and death together. You two are forever inseparable, like brother and sister, white on rice, or a fat boy and triple chocolate cake. My name happens to be Mykel. To many people I encounter in life, phonetically pronounce my name as “Michael,” “Mukal,” or even “Mah-Kawyll” by my Southern eleventh grade AP English teacher, Ms. Clawson, who always butchered my name with different pronunciations for the first two months of the quarter, and somehow managed to make it sound similar to an imitation crow call by an amateur bird caller.
Yet, she dislikes the meanings of her name, so she tries to find who she really is. According to the text, “At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth” (¶5). This illustrates how her name was addressed in a way that she hated and affected her opinion towards her name. This is significant because it connects to my personal experience of being bullied at school for my name that is viewed as strange by the bully. The author shares, “I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me, the one nobody sees” (¶5).
From the moment of my birth, I was declared a girl and my parents immediately attempted to raise me to be every aspect of my gender, from behavior to beliefs. In sociology, this is known as gender role socialization, which is the process of socializing boys and girls to conform to their assigned genders’ attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, values, and norms. My parents taught me how think and behave like a girl through the way the way they dressed me, how they did my hair, and the toys they allowed me to play with. However, having been raised with a brother, I also picked up on some of his supposed gender roles. I am exactly who I am due to the way I was socialized by my parents and others around me.
There was something in my back. Just before I ripped it off of me I got my new name. Eliza. Eliza Waters. My old name I didn 't even remember.
From the young age of twelve, I knew that I wanted to be a piano teacher. So, I did. I began teaching at 15 and figured I was all set for life. Then when I was 26 I adopted twins from Milwaukee county. I soon discovered their needs were greater than I had anticipated.
Though she claims that she still loves the name, she sometimes wishes she had named me Matilda and called me Mattie or Tilley. Matilda was my grandmother’s middle name, and my grandmother passed away three months after I was born. She hated the name ‘back then,’ but now it contains a special symbol of a special lady. My mother also loved the names Anna, Grace, and Paige. After completing the project, I have a new appreciation for research papers and documentation.
Hi, I am Michelle and this is my freshman year of high school. I was born and raised in Sacramento by my family. I am the oldest sibling and 7 years apart from my younger sister. My family also includes our much-loved dog and she is a female, toy poodle mix. Some things I enjoy and do often is listening to music, checking Instagram and shopping.
After my gender reveal, my mother started getting the baby room ready, decorating the walls pink with a lacy border. My clothes were dresses with little bows. As I grew, my gender became one of my core identities. I have memories of being told by my father that it was okay I struggled in mathematics, because “most girls aren’t good at math.”
Becoming a father in my life was the best thing that has ever happened to me. Living for someone else and not just yourself is a special feeling. Knowing that it is your sole duties in life are now to love, provide, teach, mentor, discipline and love some more. I always hear people say “ Im don 't think I 'm ready to be a parent.” and to be honest I do not think anyone is ready to be a parent.
