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- Story of little girl
- Story of lens
- FDR plus others

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lot of anecdotes all throughout the story. introduce story with an anecdote, then lead o thesis

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He compared his name to that of a lens he found in a back alley. “He could do nothing at all about its proper function of making images… But I could not discard it.”

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alusions (refers to another writer/history)

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alusions (refers to another writer/history)

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page 3, paragraph #18 : "Self Reliance" "Concord Hymn"
page 1 paragraph #3: allude to his ancestors
(narrows topic as it goes on)
last paragraph: allude to Henry James, develop credibility
page 2 paragraph #10: heroes, soldiers

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Ellison shares his experience with unifying his identity and his name to let people know that they are not alone. He writes this to explains humanities connection to their names. He shows the reader what its like to be human and relate to others through their name and identity.

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He discusses the significance of the name his father gave him as well as the idea of freedom and that we should embrace our names. Our actions throughout our day-to-day life will define our names rather than what others put on us or what people who had the same name did in the past.

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Theme = TOPIC + WHAT THE AUTHOR SEEMS TO BE SAYING ABOUT THE TOPIC.

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Finding the meaning of anything doesn’t come easy. It takes time and understanding.

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Ellison is expressing his relationship to his name and is suggesting that names have a ubiquitous power over individuals that might not be easily detectable.

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I believe the author is saying that there is an inherent connection between our name and identity, Regardless of our acceptance of our own names.

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elison is writing about his struggles and connections he has with his name. He explains the significance of it despite his feelings of misunderstanding of why he was named this way. he tells us to be proud f our name and relate them to our identity

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As an american, it is our responsibility to pay homage to our parents (or ancestors) by understanding and appreciating the origins of our name.

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Ellison is telling us that our names affect how we live and learn in life. He shows how his name affected his life, by showing how he wished for a new one or how it affected him when people started laughing at his name. It affected his learning because he would avoid all topics of Ralph Waldo Emerson in school. But then how eventually he became a writer. He shows through out the story how your name can affect how you live and what you do.

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I feel that Ellison exploring his name is trying to urge us to look for the deeper meaning within our names. The anecdotes he includes helps us understand and relate to him and I believe that the theme of this essay is to be grateful for your name because there’s always reasoning as to why parents choose it.

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Ellison most likely decided to share his own experience with us to help us understand the importance of our own names as well. His story allows us to think about our names and how we live up to the name that was given to us.

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Ellison uses the allusion of Franklin D. Roosevelt on pg.2 to show a comparison to his own situation. He writes this anecdote to show how people can over look the true qualities of a person when they are blinded by the "FDR image". He writes this because it is similar to his own situation.

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He talks about his name and how it affected his life. He takes time to understand his name and accept his name. We all need to learn to accept something in our lives and it might take time but you'll learn to accept it over time.

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Why would he want to share this with you? The duty of a writer is…

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Why would he want to share this with you? The duty of a writer is…

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A writer’s job is to express his/her opinions on a matter that is important to them. He wanted to talk about his name since he had many experiences throughout his life that ties back to his name (puzzlement for his name, history of his name, etc.). He wanted to show the reader that your name is important and that you should embrace it and possibly discover the hidden meaning behind it.

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A person's name is a definition of who they are and what they have done -- in some cases, even what they can become. We do not just come to terms with it, we areee it.

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Ellison is telling us about his own name and his struggles when dealing with his name in order to help others who are dealing with similar problems

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ellison wants to inspire us to explore the origins of our own name. we've lived our whole life with our name so we are so used to it that we don't appreciate how special it is until someone shows us they had a newfound appreciation for their name.

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Sharing experiences with other people can help other people with there own experience and show them that they're not alone.

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our names are not our qualities, but our actions do. names can be manipulated and make people blind to people's true identities

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Ellison wants to tell the reader about his own name so that the reader is encouraged to think about his own name and it's origin.

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The reason he chose to share his story is so that those who read it can learn from his struggles. I can benefit from this writing because I realize that life is hard. And sometimes that’s okay, because it can lead to understanding and appreciation. Texts offer insights and challenges by the author speaking their mind, and the reader analyzing it to determine what the author is saying in order to learn from their experiences.

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Mimi Livisay - introduces the topic; a cute, engaging opening to the essay;
Finding the lens - creates an extended comparison between the lens and his name; he knows they are powerful and may hold some purpose in the future - but for now he cannot understand it or make it work.

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This essay is trying to tell us how important our names are to our lives. He's trying to tell us how it affected his so then maybe we could feel more involved with our own name. He shows his struggle and journey to enjoying his name for somebody else that also doesn't like their name hopefully making the story easier for the person in the long run.

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I feel that he would share this to connect with his readers on a deeper level. Some people maybe read this expert and say “I feel the same way” or “I don’t know why my parents gave me my name either”. It helps the reader and the autor feel like they have something in common

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elison shared his story about his name because he believes that he is not the only person who has those kinds of struggle for example in paragraph 3 he explains that finding our identity in our name is "far from easy (for many of us)". And so he shared his story in order to make people relate to him and make them feel seen and understood

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I think that Ellison shares his experiences with us to give us a connection and maybe relate to us. His understanding of the reason and importance of his name towards the end might relate to readers who don’t like something about their own name. Texts offer insights and challenges because they make us think about the connection between the events of the story and our personal lives. This thinking allows us to understand more and come to a better conclusion of our identity and the fact that names don’t define us.

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Ellison's writing showed me the power of a name. I think many of us do not think deeply about why our parent's chose our name for us, but Ellison explains the importance of unity with out names through allusions and anecdotes. From this, I was able to analyze the meaning of my name and how it has affected me.

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The reader benefits from Ellison's exploration of his own name because he is able to relay his experiences in a way that may seem relatable for many people. In contrast, readers that can not relate to Ellison can gain a greater understanding of the impacts of names by understanding an experience separate from their own. The text offers insights and challenges by questioning the origin of names and what that entails for the people bearing them.

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The works of Emerson - to let the reader know that Ellison read them and TRIED to avoid them - but they still had meaning in his life, impacted his future.
The list of people he wondered why his father did not name him - Jack Johnson, Colonel Charles Young, Admiral Dewey, Booker T Washington, Frederick Douglass. A child would understand why these people were heroic

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Ellison may have had everyone in mind, and certainly would appeal most to those who don't like their names or don't understand. I remember seeing on the news one day the story of a girl named abcde (Ab - suh - dee). This kind of just reminded me of that. It ties in with me, my name being Clark, and others adding Kent to the end. A name to me is an adjective/classifier. I personally wonder why Ellison didn't just accept the compliments. How I could benefit from his writing: oddly enough, what I learned most from was the camera, kind of a subpoint of the excerpt -- to learn and look for the things completely unrelated for the sake of deeper understanding in all things.

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I believe that Ellison wishes to share his reader for them to gain a connection with him and his beliefs about his name and his thoughts on names in general. We can benefit from this reading because it also makes us think about our names and what positives there are to every name and even though we might not like our name, we carry our name on and strive to live up to our names. Different texts make us able to view people’s ideas about life and things which we wouldn’t have went into deep thought about without reading, writings like these make us understand who we are and what we believe in contrast to different authors.

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The essay starts with an introduction that introduces topic and thesis - talks generally about the issues of African American names and narrows to the focus of his own name; he then goes chronologically through his life and explains his reaction to his name at each age; it ends with a "conclusion" in which he summarizes his findings and explains the impact that his name has on his current self.