![]() ![]() He believes he won't grow up but will be trapped as half a person. Twelve-year-old Rump, who is smaller than average, agonizes over his name because it is not a whole name and therefore he will not be able to determine his destiny. Plot and characterization are driven by this overarching theme that a name is full of meaning and power that determines a person's future. It's the favorite village joke." to leaving a breadcrumb trail of butt, poo, and fart jokes. His name is sure to have young readers howling from the first sentence,"My mother named me after a cow's rear end. Rump's mom gasped only part of his name before dying right after giving birth to him. Yeek! Talk about having an identity crisis. Joe." At least I wasn't named, "Rump" as in this tale. ![]() I imagined naming my brothers, "Hasbro" or "Matchbox" or "G.I. I remember thinking mom and dad had too many kids if they were letting siblings name them after toys. There is power in names and thinking I had been named after something as frivolous as a doll bothered me growing up. "Mom let me name you after my Barbie doll," my older sister declared when we were little kids. Dippy me believed her well into adulthood before learning that I was named after a friend of my mom's. ![]()
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