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Character Files from the ToiBox 98: Jack-Quote(s)

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Favorite Quotes: Subject EC:B 3-Jack

“I’m twelve years old. I’m just a kid,” he said. “I’m supposed to be opposed to war; it’s called childlike innocence and naiveté…”

“I may be a bad boy, but I’m still one of the good guys and a lot of that is thanks to Mira and Giovanni.”

“Giovanni and I are like brothers who can’t get along, but would do anything for each other…”

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Character Files from the ToiBox 83: Jack-Opinion on Peers

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How does this character feel about his/her book peers?

Subject EC:B 3-Jack:

…loves Tori and Sheldon and wishes he’d spent more time with them as they were growing up.

…thinks Michael is a good guy and mostly puts up with him out of necessity.

…has never been love, but he thinks it might be possible with someone like Lilly.

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Day 21- Label: What’s in a Name? #write31days 2014

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Term of the day: label: simple or short name for a group, category, or classification.

Thoughts:

Some names come with labels and some names become labels; I’m talking about reputation and stereotypes here, but I’ll try to be positive and objective. I would like for you to ask yourself an honest question: “Have you ever heard someone’s names and then saw them and thought the name didn’t match?”

Some names are traditional of a particular culture or race, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t cross overs. It does however mean that people with negative stereotype projections and discriminatory behaviors tend to miss out on meeting other because of the names they have.

What or who do you think of when you here the names: Jerome, Dante, Leroy, Ricardo, Hamish, and Chan.

Now let’s consider Jezebel. Once a perfectly respectable name, it has since become a label, and often misunderstood one, but a label no less. Can you think of other names that have become labels?

Name of the day: Jack.

Breakdown and meaning:

Jack is similar to Giovanni, discussed in my etymology post. Jack is derived from John as a pet name, which in turn in an English equivalent of the Latin origin of Giovanni. Jack means “gracious gift of God” or also “God is gracious”.

In my Eternal Curse Series, Jack will make an appearance in the second book and will, from time to time, steal the show. I look forward to sharing this feisty character (hint hint, wink wink 😉 ) with my readers.

Well, that’s it for Day 21. See you tomorrow.

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Outside of my own personal search throughout the years, basic meanings and definitions of the terms used here can be found at the following websites:http://www.meaning-of-names.com/, Google search http://en.wikipedia.org/, and http://dictionary.reference.com/.


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