Jamie, Felicia, and Alyson.

Reflection:

The specific scenes that we used to portray the theme in our short story give off the important message that The Name Jar emphasizes. The scenes were Unhei feels down on herself and not confident about her name shows how she is wanting to change her identity and pretend to be someone she is not. Her fear of standing out overrides her emotions to such an extent that she allows her classmates to create a jar with names for her to choose. This jar full of American names symbolizes all the identities that aren’t hers and the reason that she hesitates in choosing a name is that none of them suite her. In the scenes with Joey and Mr. Kim, they show her that her name is who she is, and they influence her in a positive way to keep this identity. Furthermore, we found the scene where she was in bus to be very influential in how her fears of being different and not being liked were pushed to a further reality. This then helped her find her identity, though it was a negative experience, by bringing the doubt before bringing comfort in her identity. During this process, we learned to pick out and select out the important scenes that portray the overall message that the author tries to represent. In addition, we learned that we don’t need to display every moment to convey the lesson that needs to be heard and that sometimes simplicity can go a long way.