Thursday, January 26, 2012

How do character names influence our first response to them? For example, Lavender, Miss Honey.?

well we all hold prejudices with names so if it is a soft sounding name like daisy we are more able to like her... also if a character in the book has a name of a person we know we tend to turn the character into that person..so if we like the person we like the character but if we don't like the person we won't like the character

How do character names influence our first response to them? For example, Lavender, Miss Honey.?
I agree with what was said by the first two people who answered.

But there is more to it than that.. more than just Lavender and Honey.

While the nicknames we pick out for ourselves on here show a side of us, I think that they also show a side of us that most people never see, a side that we want people to know is there.



Just as we shouldnt assume someone is a certain way by what they appear to be on the outside, we should based on what nickname they have either.

Sometimes some of the people who have some of the most outlandish names, rudest names are some of the people whose opinions maybe isnt what we completely agree with, but is something that we can contemplate, and agree on concerning certain aspects.

Often I have found that some of the sweetest, calmest names, are people whose opinions are ignorant (unlearned, uneducated), single minded, people who are unwilling to see the differences in others, people who only see things one way and are unwilling to realize that while life in some of its aspects is black and white, there is also grey areas to it as well.
Reply:Often the name of characters reflect the type of personality the writer is trying to portray. When we think of the name Lavender we think of something nice and so we expect the character to be nice. Honey is sweet so we expect a character with this name to be sweet. Often these characters are in contrast with some other character that is not so nice.


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