{"id":15795,"date":"2024-05-10T22:45:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T02:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/?p=15795"},"modified":"2024-05-10T22:45:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T02:45:29","slug":"fils-stephen-discussion-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/2024\/05\/10\/fils-stephen-discussion-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Fils Stephen Discussion 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through the vignettes in <em>The House on Mango street<\/em> we\u2019ve read in class one I feel I have a personal experience I can relate to is \u201cMy Name\u201d. \u00a0In \u201cMy Name\u201d The narrator Esperanza talks about how she doesn\u2019t like her name, but for me it isn\u2019t so much that I hate my first name Daverne, it\u2019s more a feeling of identity. As his first son my dad named me after him. Growing up I didn\u2019t mind the name but after sometime I started not liking the name so much. I felt like I was another extension of my father which isn\u2019t bad, but I thought of other first sons who their fathers chose to give them a name other then their first names and I wished I could have that, a name that is my own. I think that is why I prefer using my middle name Fils as my official name. Fils is French for son, so instead of naming me Daverne junior, my dad named me Daverne Fils. If you really think about it since Fils mean junior I\u2019m still technically an extinction of my father\u2019s name but I do think the name\u2019s pretty original so I like it. Whenever people ask me for my name I always say Fils, only at school and work do people call me by first name. Funny thing is at home I go by another name. In my entirety of me living my Family has never called me by my government name not even my father. They all call me Carvens. And if I\u2019m being honest, Carvens feels like more like my name than Daverne and Fils ever did. Daverne would come a close second though since that is what people would always call me. Lately I have been feeling like I have been going through an identity crisis, I feel like I am many things at once but yet at the same time not sure of what I am or want to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the vignettes in The House on Mango street we\u2019ve read in class one I feel I have a personal experience I can relate to is \u201cMy Name\u201d. \u00a0In \u201cMy Name\u201d The narrator Esperanza talks about how she doesn\u2019t like her name, but for me it isn\u2019t so much that I hate my first name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6800,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-14-discussion","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6800"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15800,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795\/revisions\/15800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}