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“Oh, my dears, those are much too hard for me. Suppose we give you pretty English names. Wouldnt that be jolly? Let’s see, now—Pamela for you, I think.” She shrugged in a baffled way at my sister. “That’s as close as I can get. And for you” she said to me, “how about Cynthia? Isn’t that nice?” (Rua 1). This shows identity from a name. Ones name is a huge part of somebody's identity because it's how they are identified to other people and what people call them by. In this quote they are receiving a new identity with an English name.

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“But I put it happily away, because it had all happened to a girl called Cynthia, and I was never particularly interested in her” (Rau 5).

This passage illustrates identity in a name in multiple ways. First, Santha shows identity in a name by identifying herself as two separate people, Santha, and Cynthia. Santha identifies her real name with her Indian background and lifestyle, in which she has the ability to express her Indian culture. Santha is not identified by what other people want, unlike Cynthia. Cynthia’s identity is based off of common English culture, and what many other students do, like wearing cotton dresses, and bringing sandwiches to school. Overall, Santha identifies herself by two different names , which are associated with different experiences.

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"The cotton dress should have looked strange, but all I could think of was that I should ask my mother if I couldn’t wear a dress to school, too, instead of my Indian clothes" (Rau 2).
This quote shows identity from those around you because the Indian girl in her class didn't want to wear Indian clothes, instead she was choosing to adapt to those around her and dress like them in order to fit in. She is finding her identity by conforming to those around her instead of her own culture.

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"Premila didn’t even look at her. She stood with her feet planted firmly apart and her shoulders rigid, and addressed herself directly to me. “Get up,” she said. “We’re going home” (Rau 5).
This quote demonstrates identity from within oneself because Premila knows who she is, and she is not going to let anyone treat her differently because she is Indian. She knows she is not a cheater, so she has the courage to leave the place which so brutally stereotypes her.

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“I broke away from my classmates and rushed toward it yelling, “Ayah! Ayah!” It seemed like an eternity since I had seen her that morning”(Rau, 3). This shows identity for her culture because she has a Ayah/nanny which most of them do not. It also shows identity of her culture in that her sister did not want her to show that type of affection as it did not fit in with the "british" culture. Santha was identifying with her culture and her affection for her anya.

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“Oh, my dears, those are much too hard for me. Suppose we give you pretty English names. Wouldn’t that be jolly?”page 1. This quote helps us understand that because they cannot spell thier names so the people around them give them different ones. This means that they define their identity through their names. In a sense, Santha develops two identities for her two different names.

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She said it was because Indians cheat.” Premila added. “So I don’t think we should go back to that school.” This shows that Premila was called a cheater by her teacher just because she was Indian and that is wrong so she stood up for what she believed by leaving the school. Therefore, she was not influenced by them, and instead, her identity was strengthened by the identity of those around her rather than being influenced by it.

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Premila said, “We had our test today, and she made me and the other Indians sit at the back of the room, with a desk between each one.”

Mother said, “Why was that, darling?”

“She said it was because Indians cheat.” Premila added. “So I don’t think we should go back to that school.”

This shows that Indians are only seen as cheaters and nothing more to the teacher. This shows the identity from those around them because they are being perceived as cheaters only because they are Indian.

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“At that age, if one’s name is changed, one develops a curious form of dual personality. I remember having a certain detached and disbelieving concern in the actions of “Cynthia,” but certainly no responsibility (Rau).”

This is saying that her name change is completely changing her. She goes from her own Indian roots to English roots that don’t represent her.

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“Come along,” she said, frowning slightly. “What’s your name, dear?”

“I don’t know,” I said, finally.

The English children in front of the class—there were about eight or ten of them—giggled and twisted around

in their chairs to look at me. I sat down quickly and opened my eyes very wide, hoping in that way to dry them

off. The little girl with the braids put out her hand and very lightly touched my arm. She still didn’t smile.(Rau 2)

This quote shows that the girl was just given I new name and therefore I new identity and when the teacher asked what is her name she doesn’t know because she has just been given a new name and a new identity

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“But I put it happily away, because it had all happened to a girl called Cynthia, and I never was really particularly interested in her.” (Rau 5).
This quote demonstrates that Santha considered Cynthia as a different person entirely. She acted differently when she went by her given “Pretty English name”, she acted uncomfortable, never truly feeling like herself, and not at all like her culture would expect her to act.

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“At that age, if one’s name is changed, one develops a curious form of dual personality. I remember having a certain detached and disbelieving concern in the actions of “Cynthia,” but certainly no responsibility” (Rau).

In the story Santha began to sense that the person she was at school was entirely different then the person who she was for so long. In those days she was looked very differently by her piers. So she decided to be somebody she wasn’t away from her family and change back to normal when school concludes. At the end of the story I feel like Santa’s sister realizes that the school life wasn’t the equal life thatthey  should be living so they left.

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“ of course, they were both wrong. I understood it perfectly, and I remember it all very clearly. But I put it happily away, because it had all happen to a girl called Cynthia, and I never was really particularly interested in her” ( Rau 5 )

This quote shows identify by name because santha  isn’t interested in her new name that the British named her & it doesn’t really effect her as a person in this situation that her sister is in.

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"Premila and I were the only ones with Indian food...The enormous black eyes of the little Indian girl from my class looked at my food longingly, so I offered her some. But she only shook her head and plowed her way solemnly through her sandwiches" (Rua 2).

This demonstrates identity within your culture because many of the Indian children have conformed to bringing sandwiches or other non-indian food items to lunch instead, of sticking to there traditional food like Premilia and Santha. Also, it shows how some kids may miss eating their culture's traditional cuisine.

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“name is changed, one develops a curious form of dual personality”. This shows that she believes that her name changes her

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"I can't remember too much about the proceedings in class that day, except for the beginning. The teacher pointed to me and asked me to stand up. "Now, dear, tell the class your name." I said nothing. "Come along," she said, frowning slightly. "What's your name dear." I said, "I don't know". Sintha is confused on what to say because of her British name she doesn't feel connected to it and it changes the aspect of how she sees her new name.

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“Premila thrust half of it into my hand and whispered fiercely that I should go and sit with my class, because that was what the others seemed to be doing”(Rau, 2). This quote shows that the girls are getting their identities from those around them because Premila and Santha are trying to fit in and be like the others. They don’t want to stand out, so they pretend to be someone they’re not. They’ve learned Indian culture and customs which are not accepted by other children and teachers in English schools, so they try to fit in.

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I was always allowed to “win”—“because,” Mother used to tell Premila, “she is the youngest, and we have to allow for that.” I had often heard her say it, and it seemed quite reasonable to me, but the result was that I had no clear idea of what “winning” meant.

Because Santha's mother taught her this, and she identified as a “bad sport” in school because of it. Her identity was in her family's interpretation of the world around her, and this showed up in the games they played at school.

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“Oh, my dears, those are much too hard for me. Suppose we give you pretty English names. Wouldnt that be jolly? Let’s see, now—Pamela for you, I think.” She shrugged in a baffled way at my sister. “That’s as close as I can get. And for you” she said to me, “how about Cynthia? Isn’t that nice?”

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“She said it was because Indians cheat.” Premila added. “So I don’t think we should go back to that school.” Premila was identified by her teacher that she was a cheater becuase she was Indian. This is obviously not true and she stood up for herself and her culture by leaving the school.

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“you can bury a dog’s tail for seven years and it still comes out curly”, this means that you can try to change it’s identity/and personality by straightening its hair, but nothing will change.  People often have stereotypes and this reinforces that people determine others' identity based upon stereotypes.