The Significance Of Names In The Lightning Thief

Our name is what describes us as individuals, it’s our personal identity. My name, Katherine, describes me perfectly. Plus my name is unique, at least here in El Paso it is, I’ve met at least two other Katherine’s but their names were spelled completely differently. You can say the same thing for me. There are a lot of positive things about my name, but there are also some negative things too.

A person’s name is their most important characteristic and is often comprised of hidden significance and centurial “hand-me-downs”. When I was assigned to research my name, I had never thought of the importance of the name my parents had given me. As a child, I always found it annoying when my peers turned to snicker at me each time our church’s music minister asked for the congregation to stand and sing “Amazing Grace.” Each time I heard the song “Mary Had a Little Lamb”, there was always someone near to ask, “Hey, where is your lamb?” After conducting research, though, I began to find little things that made me more appreciative of my name.

When John meets people, his last name always changes but the one thing that doesn’t change was the meaning of the name: English colonizers who destroyed the native communities. “John Richardson… Tanner, yes I have two last names, I was adopted” pg 113. John has multiple identities and there have been multiple instances in the story where john has messed up his identities. “Okay then, my name is John… Tanner. John Tanner. Yep that’s me.” This is when John first changes his last name to change his appearance. The only problem is that he messed up the last names so he ‘lost his perfect identity’. Johns last name is very important because they are all English native destroyers and that is almost what he did to Otter

Jacob, a simple name, is easy to say, easy to spell, and easy to remember. Jacob comes from the Hebrew origin, “Supplanter”. Supplanter means one who follows another’s heel. My name fits me. To me, Jacob means someone who is smart, funny, and outgoing. I am very smart, at least I think so. In real life, I am not that funny, but some people think that I am funny. I am sometimes outgoing because if I really want to be someone’s friend I just go up and ask. But I love my name. My dad wanted me to be Rocco, but my mom wouldn’t allow it. On the day of my birth, my dad was going to change it. Birth certificate in hand, he was going to change my name to Rocco, but my mom would dislike the name and dislike my dad even more, so he kept it. But I do love my name. My son’s middle name would be Jacob if I even have a son. Jacob is a good name. It fits who I am.

This is shown in these texts, “I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me, the one no one sees. Esperanza as Lisandra or Maritza or Zeze the X. Yes, something like Zeze the X will do.” (“My Name” By Sandra Cisneros), “The name Youngeun is a barcode. The name Rachel is a Made in America sticker slapped onto a Korean flag.” (Names by Rachel Rostad), and “When I was nine years old, I spent the summer at a stay-away camp being called "Tiffany".” (What’s In A Name by Okaikor Aryee-Price).

According to the dictionary the meaning of the word name is ; a word or phrase that refers to or that can refer to a specific person (webster dictionary). A name is actually more than that. On December 13, 2000 I was born and given the name Sheena Ailanie Williams. My mom told me that while she was sitting in her bedroom, a movie came on the television screen.Sheena, The Jungle Queen was the name of the movie my mother named me after. For years people would ask me my name and responded with, “ Like the jungle queen!” sooner or later I started to think of myself as queen of the jungle. It made me feel important and special. People

The last name came from the region of Bourgoigne, a large part of central France. The surname is hereditary given to a person who resided next to physical features such as hills, steams, church, etc. In my case my ancestors lived next to a Mountain, hence “from the mount” and that’s where the part “mont” comes in the name which means mountain or hill in French. There have been many famous people with the same last name as me, possibly related, such as a French explorer that I have known since Middle School. His name was Jules Dumont and was a French admiral who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica; he even has an ice shelf of Antarctica named after him. My last name is very common and I could go on about a bunch of other people, but this was by far my favorite person who could be possibly related to

I know that modeling me after a profit was the biggest profession of love my parents had to offer at birth. When those that care for me call me Samuel, I know it's coming from a place of respect for a religion they know I love whether they know that's the true meaning of my name or not. I know that when calling for my attention, people are not thinking about the trivial, negative attributes that I have assigned to my own name, but who I am as the person they have grown to

I have had two different names growing up. My parents came to America at the turn of the new millennium with big dreams and hopes. Coming from a devout Jainist society, their perspectives towards life were very different; they believed in hard work and most of all nonviolence. I, on the other hand grew up in a sweet, small southern town on the tip of Florida. Life was all about going to the sandy beaches, chilling with pals, and just having a “good ole time”.

The narrator’s name was created by her grandfather. The narrator’s grandfather was in Virginia, at that time people there owned slaves. He fell in love with a Cherokee and stole a horse to marry her and people did not forgive him for that. Therefore he lost his family name and created a new one, the one that the narrator has now. That’s how the narrator’s name was created.

My name is Jonathan Garcia. If Jonathan was a color, it would be blue it describes its cool just like Jonathan. My mom called me Jonathan because she really liked the name. I wasn't name after anyone but I have my dad's last name. My nickname is jo or Jon and my family calls me that because it's short name for Jonathan. If Jonathan was a animal he would be lion because lions are strong just like a Jonathan. My parents wanted my last name to be Garcia and my brother last name to be Sanchez.

William Richard Florio means helm,protector,powerful and a leader. Both my middle name and my first name are German, but they are named after two great English kings.My first name come from nobody that was named that in my family, but my parents named me William because they new that it was a powerful name. My middle name which would be Richard is named after my Grandpa on my mom's side of the family, and that's why Richard is my middle name. I also have a nickname in which my friends and family call me Will. There is really no reason why my nickname is Will, but most likely because it's shorter. I really like my name for many different reasons because,t it sounds really nice.William sounds very powerful

When I asked her why she calls me this, she said, “The reason why I gave you Alexander Grandbell for a nickname was that you brain never seems to stop working and you can figure out almost anything”. I stayed with it because who does not want to have a nickname after a famous inventor. For whatever reason when I was young, I would always answer to it. Mom and friends’ regular calls me just Adam, but just on the off chance they need my attention they would. Another nickname I have was one that I gave to myself, which was AJA. AJA is a weird sounding nickname that most pronounce of A-JA, but I still like it. I mainly use this nickname as my in-game character names. Only a couple of my friends know the nickname of AJA, mainly friends in elementary school. Thinking back on why I picked AJA to be my game nickname, I cannot think of any big reason for it, just that it was the first letter of my first, middle, and last names. Of course, I thought about using AJA as my main nickname, but I feel like it would just be too hard to say and does not roll off the tongue. All in all, I like both nicknames and would not change either one of them for the

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Names will always be different for everyone. They all come from a different backstory or a different meaning and my name is no exception. Although my first name doesn’t provide anything interesting about me, I know I have several stories discussing my middle and last name. From all the long and amazing