Have you ever considered the importance of your name? Many will argue that a person's name is the most important word that a person could hear. Is that true for you? Do you feel like your name fits you? What might fit better? Follow the link to the excerpt from Sandra Cisneros' book, "House On Mango Street," and read "My Name." Once you are finished, post a 150 word comment, doing something similar to what she does: analyze your name. Be creative. That means, I want to hear you talking to me through your paper. You may follow some of the patterns that Cisneros establishes for you.
My Name
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My name,I believe, has and will continue to define who I am. When people that don't know me hear it, they form a mental image of what I will be like. Try it yourself. "Rocky" conjures an image for me of tough, independent, scrappy, wiley, solid, and stoic. When I was a boy, my family and freinds, my teachers and acquaintances expected certain things of me based on my name. My perception of those expecations helped to define how I would behave in multiple settings - at home,at work, at school, and in social gatherings. The above descriptors became part of the behavioral box within which I formed my character. "What's in a name?" A lot of who and what we are is contained therin - at least it is so for me.
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