Names are the way of giving new life. Some can be real and some can be fake how is using a fake name useful? When you’re a writer, it’s very useful. For a good number of authors, having a pen name is the only way to get their work published. Even to this day, authors are out there using pen names, only in order to stem biases and preconceived notions. Authors use fake names or Pen names to gain freedom, flexibility, and opportunity in the work of the author. For starters, authors use pen names to feel free, flexible, have more opportunity, and some fear embarrassment if the book doesn’t make the cut. For example, in the first source titled as “What’s in a Name by E. Bennet” “Eric Blair author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty- Four adopted the name George Orwell because he feared his early work would embarrass his family.” Also, in the fourth source titled “Who is Richard Bachman by J.L. Campbell” “Stephen King has also written using the pen name Richard Bachman; the Bachman name has been with King for almost the duration of his career. Initially, King wanted to write using the Bachman pseudonym so that he would be able to publish more books.” …show more content…
To prove my statement in source number one named “What’s in a Name by E. Bennet” “When a local newspaper refused him publication, sixteen year old Benjamin Franklin started writing letters to the editor under the persona of the middle aged widow Silence Dogood.” For some, they had to use another pen name in order to write a certain kind of books. Shown in the first source titled “What’s in a Name by E. Bennet” “In fact, Rowling became so famous that she later turned to another pen name, Robert Galbraith, in order to write detective novels. For Rowling, a pen name meant a fresh start and a chance to explore new genre without the pressure of her Harry Potter
Fanny Fernâs real name was Sarah Payson Willis Parton, but she used the pseudonym in all her legal affairs and with members of her family. Similar to Mark Twain in the sense that the pen names became more closely associated with the writers than their real names, Fern, like Twain, wrote satirical essays, sketches, and novels about the shortcomings of American society. For twenty-one years Fern reminded people that America needed to work on it problems with literature, education, prisons, prostitution, venereal disease, family planning, divorce, education, child rearing, and rights for women. Her unflinching, yet female perspective gained her enormous popularity. Although Fern did not completely abandon traditional womenâs topics like love, marriage, and children, the most far-reaching issues that she addressed were economic independence for women and the need for improvements in dome...
What many people don’t know about King is his how he was as a person, not a writer. People may think that he is a very violent and mysterious person, but Stephen King is not like that at all, said an ex-student of Kings. Arthur Norton said in an interview with King, “There is this genial childlike quality about King… He is an average guy.” King says in the same interview, “I am a very credulous person. I will believe what I am told.”
In an Amazon.co.uk interview titled “Magic, Mystery and Mayhem: An Interview with J.K. Rowling,” when asked about the way she came up with the names of characters in her books, she replied, “I invented some of the names in the Harry books, but I also collect strange names. I've gotten them from medieval saints, maps, dictionaries, plants, war memorials, and people I've met!” J.K. Rowling chose these names for a reason based on the deeper meanings behind every character's name and the way they relate to their roles and personalities. In Octavia E. Butler's short story “Speech Sounds”, Rye and Obsidian were the names she chose for her characters. Rye, the name of the main protagonist which symbolizes home and earth yearns to reconnect with her family and to rebuild a family of her own while Obsidian, the supporting character, is named after a type of lava stone, which is believed to contain magical properties that “absorbs and destroys negative energy such as anger, criticism, and fear” (Zagata). The names of the characters have two purposes: to describe the character's role and personality, and to give them an identity.
The diction King's novels took on were not intentional in the beginning. King began writing novels with horror elements or completely based on the attention other horror novels such as Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby and Wlliam P. Blatty's The Exorcist had received after many of his naturalistic novels had been rejected (Keyishian 30). With this, King's novels changed from a romantic prose to direct rhythms and characterizations. King begins instruction in his book On Writing by instructing not to constrict to a manual of writing a certain way, but by simply writing and seeing what comes structure is able to out of it (McCrillis). The shift in his writing comes from many factors, but most are from letting the structure take on its own course; to not write as his vision sees it beforehand, but to let the wri...
Stephen King, a distinguished author of blood-curdling horror, writes novels and short stories based on his personal fears of everyday life (Kehoe). In the year of 1977, King created the pseudonym, Richard Bachman to publish additional books (Biography Today). The masquerading secret was so well-kept, no one knew until eight years later, when readers noticed the same writing style as King (Kehoe, Biography Today). Bachman’s first book, The Rage, was published in 1977 (Biography Today). Succeeding The Rage, Bachman published The Boogeyman in 1978 (Biography Today). In The Boogeyman, Lester Billings is a hard-working young man with three deceased children, a defenseless wife, and a guilty conscious.
King has confessed to composing five books under the pen name Bachman to abstain from over publishing under his own particular name. These books from time to time contain components of the otherworldly or mysterious, concentrating rather on such topics as human mercilessness, estrangement, and profound quality. In Rage, an insane person shoots a teacher and holds a classroom prisoner, singling out one understudy for physical and mental torment. The Long Walk and The Running Man center around not so distant future social orders in which individuals contend to the passing in ceremonial diversions. Roadwork investigates a man's responses in the wake of watching his family, work, and home decimated by corporate and administrative powers outside
It is possible that by having a woman take his name, he is subjugating her to him so he is elevated in importance in a way that will translate professionally. If you notice, many women in positions of fame resist this by keeping their maiden names after marriage. Look at Beyonce Knowles for one, or Sarah Michelle Gellar. They have both maintained their identities. Many women will also hyphenate their name as a way to maintain their professional
Authors use pen names for various reasons. Sometimes its because they aren't aloud to get published according to the publisher, and other times its because they want to write more. Many authors new and old use pen names when writing. Even famous authors, like Stephen King or J.K. Rowling. There are many books still out there that haven’t been read that much but famous authors write them, because their pen names aren’t well known and people didn’t know it was they.
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Due to the extent of King’s higher learning, he could easy in using elaborate diction and complex rhetorical strategies. He played a diplomat when King’s elaborate style enhanced his argument. Moreover, he touched his audiences with gentle point. Especially, King used many historical and religious allusions that reinforce the unsuspecting of his argument. By directing the text to many people from many background, he used their most celebrated figures to support his case. This was very difficult for the audiences who separated from him or his culture to controvert his
“Can you imagine what a mess a world would be without names? (website)Names are very important to a person and their individuality. Ayn Rand’s novel “Anthem” is a book in which the people written about do not have names. The importance of having your own individual names is huge. A name can have meaning given to it, like how the name Sue means lily. Most parents when giving you your name have a meaning behind it and put much thought into what their future child should be named. Names can give you a part of your identity.
King credits the name for his pseudonym to a book by Richard Matheson that was on his desk and Bachman-Turner Overdrive that was playing on the radio when his publisher called to ask what pseudonym he wanted to use (Wood 148).
Names having great meaning in human civilization. They can have personal meaning and help create the foundation for a sense of self and identity. They're often rooted in a persons heritage and culture and therefore can serve to remind a person of where they come from. They help create a sense of recognition and familiarity between people and ultimately a sense of solidarity and community. Names can also be used as a form of respect and affection or as signs of disrespect. These various roles that names serve can be seen through out Lawrence Hills 'Book of Negroes'. In the novel Hill repeatedly makes reference to names and the meaning they carry for the novels heroine, Aminata Diallo and those around her. For Lawrence Hill and his characters naming and names themselves are powerful symbols of identity, family, culture, respect and their erasure is a potent symbol of power and domination.
But then again, maybe the names have nothing at all to do with the story. Perhaps, O'Connor simply picked the names randomly out of a hat. It's not an impossible idea. But the chance of the names fitting so superbly to each character of the story, just by happenstance, is one in a million. In conclusion, readers should start to focus more on the names of the characters, because the names might give more insight that what is seen on the surface. Besides, Hulga Hopewell doesn't sound like that bad of a name.
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