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He starts the essay with an anecdote of a girl repeating her name.

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Kids asked what his name was as a kid

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There is an anecdote about a lense

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Poe/Waldo college friend allusion

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Names, no matter how detested, ultimately make us unique

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Is how a persons name affects them positively and negatively throughout there life.

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Our relationship with our name is one which we can't get rid of so we should try to accept that our name is unique and part of our identity.

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Names can positively or negatively influence our personalities and how other people perceive us.

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How our names become us as we grow into our names.

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The theme is that a person's name can create anxiety for that person, due to the history behind the name.

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We have an obligation to our names, even if we might not all necessarily understand them.

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Names are a part of our identity and realizing their potential help us be better versions of ourselves

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How names can shape who we are and make our entire life experiences different.

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The relationship with your name and how there are negative and positives but ultimately its your name.

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The author expands on the relationship between a person and their name by explaining his thoughts about not appreciating his name and how he was able to understand the meaning behind it.

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Names always have a special and unique connection to the bearer. It is up to the person to translate that connection into something they hate, live with, and/or love.

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Ellison might what to share this with us, to let out the stress he has over his name. I might benefit from this writing by never naming my kid after a famous person. Texts offer insights and challenges because authors often write about what's causing them problems in their life.

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Names are what shape our perception of us and others.

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he shared this with us to give us something to relate to, to show that this experience is a universal one. this benefits us by showing us that many people are uncomfortable with their names until they grow into them and "own" them. This shows that relating to our own name is a challenge when we do not fully know or are comfortable with who we are and what our names mean.

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Ellison states that our name should be the thing that differentiates humans from one another and therefore is what makes each one of us unique

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To get you to look at your own name and evaluate how it has affected your life from the time you could first speak until now

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Although it can be difficult to accept your name and the influences it has on you, you cannot escape the meaning and legacy that is given to you.

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He probably wants to share it because he found his inquisition into his name as a source of profound reinvention that he wanted to spark in others. Texts offer insights and challenges as the author makes his own personal reflections on matters sparking the same inquisition in readers.
-Karthik Nemana

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Ellison seems to talk about how names can have its benefits and disadvantages, but the main thing to realize is the power and significance of the name because of how you make it to be.

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Ellison is trying to convince his audience of the power of names. This way, we can understand how our names influence us and use it to our benefit in figuring out who we are as people.

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He wanted to share this with us because he wanted us to learn from his experiences instead of experiencing the same things he did and going through the same mistakes as him, and thus, we benefit from the reading. Additionally, texts offer insights and challenges as they are basically one human giving knowledge to another human through a paper.

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Ellison want's to show his story and allow others to open their minds to the possibility of appreciating their name. This benefits us because some of us might not fully understand our names, but with time we'll learn more about what it means and how it relates to our personal character.

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Ellison might have wanted to share this with us firstly to reveal his personal story and point of view, but also to make readers reflect on their own names and their thoughts about them.

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Someone else might also be going through a situation like he did and his advice and decisions can help out the reader.

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Ellison might want to share his reflections about his struggles and relationship with his name, as well as tell us that we cannot escape our own. This could benefit me because it offers a perspective on how people think about their names.

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I could benefit from Ellison's words by coming to terms with my own unique name, which I'm sometimes uncomfortable with because of the way it might be pronounced and the meaning associated with it.

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By writing this essay, Ellison is exploring his own name in his life, and although he dislikes his name in the beginning, he realizes its significance in his everyday life. Just like this Ellison would write this to share that people need to become confident with problems in their life and solve them in the most effective way possible.

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Jack Johnson, Colonel Charles Young, Admiral Dewey, or Booker T. Washington or Frederick Douglass