Why do authors choose pen names? Most of the time it is because they are women. Readers won’t take female authors seriously so they create pen names. Others have to create names as a last-ditch effort to get their writings published. Lastly, they create pen names just to make sure readers are not biased or have previous knowledge of their reputation. Pen names help out writers in many ways. J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series us this pen name because readers wouldn’t take her work seriously because she was female. Gender restricted authors use pen names to get readers interested if they are not the specific gender the readers want. In Passage 1 it says,“-wouldn’t take the book seriously if they knew it was written by
Another example of the author’s name choice is Charlie. The name is a diminutive of Charles which is initially made famous by Charles the Great. Charles the Great was the King of the Franks and the Italians. At one point, he led most of Europe.
The name Lauren is originally a masculine name until the actress Betty Jean Perske used Lauren as her stage name. Lauren was introduced in Rome, Italy in the 7th century. This name can be interrupted as the English version of the Irish name: Fierce. My parents picked this to be my middle name because I had an older sister before Emili and her name was Lauren.
It signified her roots since this name purely depicted her Jews origin and cultural identity. When Ruth’s parents changed their location to America, she was given a different name, Rachel Deborah Shilsky. The second name signified that names determine acceptance. Therefore, her parents gave her the name so as to fit into the American culture and as a symbol of new birth in the American society. However, when she turned nineteen, she got rid of the name and changed it to Ruth after leaving their Virginia home in America.
Should names and labels put on people always be believed? If these labels are believed, is the name always true? Puritans, as a collective people should be exactly as they sound, pure. The reality of their society, however, is not. Some may say that they are perhaps the most judgmental and unaccepting society to have ever lived in America.
For example Firoozeh, states, “When i went to college, I eventually went back to using my real name. All was well until I graduated and started looking for a job….. After three months of rejections, I added “Julie” to my resume. Call it a coincidence, but the job offers started coming in. Perhaps it’s the same kind of coincidence that keeps African Americans from getting cabs in New York.
There are many reasons that authors sometimes choose specific names for specific characters. Sometimes it is because the meaning of the name has an important significance to the character. Other times it is because they were inspired by an actual person throughout history. Whatever the true reason may be, names often define what we are recognized by. In the historical fiction novel, “Prisoner of Night and Fog” by Anne Blankman, all of the characters have a name that is specific to the character and that has a German origin.
If Nobody’s original name was in the story, it would just be excess information that did not need to be added. Bod needed a new name anyway to be safe from Jack, and the other name would not be used for the rest of the book. Neil Gaiman focused only on the most interesting information in the book so it would be continuously entertaining, suspenseful, and intriguing. The story is much better without Bod’s real name in it, because it creates a little bit more suspense, wondering what his old
Both femininity and the topic of names are very strong themes in the book Song of Solomon, and makes the book come together as a whole. When naming your child, you usually put a lot of thought into it. You look through a list of baby names, and talk to your spouse and/or partner about all the different ones you could possibly think of in the remaining months before your baby arrives. In the novel, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, names are a big factor in the significance of the novel.
This started her journey as a reporter. It was not lady like to write under your real name, so Elizabeth had to come up with a pseudonym. She came up with Nellie Bly from a song written by Nelly Bly. She wanted to write about something serious and wanted to inform people about world problems. She decided to go to Mexico because she felt that the Mexican government treated people unfairly.
Despite Ferrante and Dickinson 's similar motivations for anonymity, a distinction must be made between the two authors; while Dickinson refused publication entirely, Ferrante wished to publish her work, but only under the protection of a pseudonym. Ferrante likely wished to escape the fame and notoriety that accompanies a successful publication. Dickinson, in contrast, did not seem to fear fame or even consider its possibility in the same way as did Ferrante; Dickinson was entirely uninterested in sharing her poetry with the public, even under the protection of a pseudonym. This suggests that publication represented, for Dickinson, a depersonalization of her poetry; works that had once been meant to be read by Dickinson 's most intimate acquaintances as a personal address would be reproduced in mass for the perusal of
At the beginning of the novel E. struggles to identify with her name. She describes her name as different from herself and does not want to accept her name as part of her identity. In chapter one of the book E. talks about how she does not feel connected to her name but rather detached "In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters .It means
For example, in the Good Country People, the name of major characters: Mrs. Hopewell, Mrs. Freeman and Hulga, symbolize their personalities and served perfectly for the theme of the story. The name of “Hopewell” seems to refer to her positivistic outlook on life and her willingness to always hope for best, but it actually signifies a hopelessness to deal with the imperfections of the society and her relationship with her daughter, as her favorite sayings, “Nothing is perfect. ”(272) And the Mrs. Freeman’s name adds even more irony to the stories, as she is free from any type of incorrectness because she will “never be brought to admit herself wrong on any point”(271), and despite the fact that she is a slave and a woman, her actual freedom is extremely limited. Also the switch of names—from Joy to Hulga— for Mrs. Hopewell’s daughter, it changes the tone of the story.
Many of the names were chosen from the bible on the day of a child’s birth. Letting God choose a child’s name shows a level of faith in the parents which often results in awkward and weird names. The use of the name, Magdalena called Lena, is similar to the phrasing in the bible in names like Simon called Peter. Toni Morrison put a lot of emphasis into the characters' names in Song of Solomon. The main characters' last name of Dead has a lot of emphasis.
Harry S. Truman actually had no middle name. Truman's parents gave him the middle initial S to honor his grandfathers Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young. The S did not stand for a name. Chicago Style Manual informed Truman that omitting a period after his middle initial was improper grammar and a bad example for America’s youth.
She was born in a very poor family where they did not have name to give to their children. Her name was not given by their parents, she researched by herself until she finds poetries about beauty and twilight where she baptized herself in it. She has a tough life in the neighborhood she was born, it was an inhospitable land with different natural and social problems, she even had to deal with hunger during her childhood. Even though it is a hard place to grow