Married and maiden names

One Family Name Today in the United States, there is a more frequent trend for women to keep their last name after marriage. It should be unacceptable in modern times for a wife to disagree with her spouse about legally changing her last name to his. The whole idea of marriage is for two people to leave behind their individuality, and join together as one unit. Sharing the same name is a symbol that both people have committed to this union without any reservations. Although some people may argue

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. The narrator uses words and imageries to describe her name. Refer to “guarded”, we can know that she values her name very much

Three Last Names “Your last name is Stanz? That doesn’t sound Indian at all.” I have heard this question a ridiculous amount of times. I always end up explaining the same story. When my dad came over from India, he filled out the paperwork backwards and put Kannan as his last name and Sankaran as his first; the correct way to do it in India. When my parents got married, my mom did not want to be named Barb Kannan or Barb Sankaran for that matter. So my parents did some brainstorming. They mixed my

“Everyday Use” by Alice Walker is told from the point of view of “Mama” who goes by no other name. She could be referred to as Mrs. Johnson, but the line, “Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue?”(Walker, 337), leads me to believe that Johnson is her maiden name. To be a mother is who and what she is, in this story, with no especial plans for when her youngest gets married. While she would be considered the protagonist, I feel that both Maggie and Dee are as equally integral to the story

While at work my friend Nanna asked me to go camping with her family in Oklahoma, asking my mom is the first thing I think about since I have never left the state without her. I ask Nanna for the days and the name of the lake. She tells me “Tenkiller” I think to myself “How odd, why would the name be Tenkiller that does not sound very inviting”. She laughs when she sees the confusion on my face. She tells me “It is called Tenkiller because there is a old story that a family of ten was stuck in the middle

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” Thanks, Mr. Shakespeare! Once you divorce, you have the right to keep your husband's last name, return to your maiden name or heck, make up a whole new name of your choosing. And in most states, it's relatively easy to make a change, assuming your attorney included a clause in the divorce decree that gave you the right to change your name. It's usually standard, but in recent months, we've heard from several divorcees

she is never rescued from her loneliness, is brought to the point where she cannot handle any more of life's saddening struggles, and kills her husband in his sleep. Through powerful and often ironic symbolism, such as Mrs. Wright's kitchen, the names of the characters, and the bird, Susan Glaspell clearly displays the power of human relationships and how truly devastating a

Summary and respond to “The Name is Mine” In the article “The Name Is Mine”(1998),Anna Quindlen tells the reason why she doesn’t change her name after getting married. She claims that she doesn’t change her last name because this name belongs to her and she is not part of her husband, not because of rational reasons. Initially, she thought she made a good personal choice, but she didn’t consider group relationships. For example, when her child ask her why her name is different with her family

heal. These wounds were inflicted by the salty water of the sea and the sun. The father's body  "[has] never been intended for a fisherman…"(138), neither was his mind. The life that the father wanted to live was far from the fisherman's life. The names of the books, magazines and writers are also mentioned to allude the real father's passion, which is literature. The seasons are part of the mother's life, while the father goes through life as if all were winter. The mother runs her house according

Jerome Rothenberg’s Technicians of the Sacred is currently one of the anthologies where “The Marrying Maiden” is printed. As for “The Marrying Maiden”, the poem is surrounded by the contextual themes of chance and relationships. For instance, within the second stanza the narrator speaks of a maiden and her transition into a new household as a concubine. In addition to her new role, her husband is a “lame man who is able to tread” inferring that their relationship will have conflict due to her being